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Grand Monadnock Measures
2013

piccolo
2 flutes
2 oboes
english horn
2 bassoons
contrabassoon (optional)
Eb clarinet
3 Bb clarinets
alto clarinet
bass clarinet
soprano saxophone
2 alto saxophones
tenor saxophone
baritone saxophone
bass saxophone 
3 trumpets in Bb
4 horns
3 tenor trombones
contrabass
timpani
2 percussion 
  1: snare drum
  2: suspended cymbal, cymbals, bass drum

duration 16' 

commissioned by Monadnock Music Festival 
first performance: Monadnock Wind Ensemble, cond. Gil Rose
Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge, New Hampshire / August 25, 2013

SCORE

RECORDING

available at www//andyvores.bandcamp.com

PROGRAM NOTE
Grand Monadnock Measures is written in memory of the English composer Steve Martland, who died of a heart attack in his sleep earlier this summer at the age of 53. Steve, like his music, was forthright, direct, energetic, stubborn, and vital. This piece is a little hommage to his spirit and uses many of the kinds of sounds found in his own work; riffs, brass punches, modal harmony, hockets – all melded to a post-minimalist love of loudness, syncopation, and clear textures. My own music gravitates toward a crunchier and more fractured aesthetic, and this piece has these elements folded in too: after a grand oompah, a blaring dissonant chord opens the work and returns periodically to remind us that the context for the bright music is the passing of a kinetic and distinctive compositional voice.