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Gavin Tomasco
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2017
Triplicate (Grade 3 Concert Band) | Gavin Tomasco | Performed 5.14.24
Performed by West Morris Mendham High School Wind Ensemble, directed by Mick Gibbons
Triplicate is a composition exploring different feels of triple meter. Written as an attainable challenge for a developing band, this piece provides the pedagogical opportunity to introduce concepts such as hemiola and polymeter to students. Students will learn to hear and play 3/4 and 6/8 stress patterns juxtaposed with one another. More complicated rhythmic concepts are reserved for the percussion section, who will be exposed to 3:2 and 4:3 polyrhythms.
This piece also explores contrast of style, with a sensitive chorale introduction leading into a high-energy, rhythmically vital race to the conclusion. Melodic motifs are passed around the ensemble, forming a consistent ostinato pattern that serves at the backbone of the piece.
Triplicate is a composition exploring different feels of triple meter. Written as an attainable challenge for a developing band, this piece provides the pedagogical opportunity to introduce concepts such as hemiola and polymeter to students. Students will learn to hear and play 3/4 and 6/8 stress patterns juxtaposed with one another. More complicated rhythmic concepts are reserved for the percussion section, who will be exposed to 3:2 and 4:3 polyrhythms.
This piece also explores contrast of style, with a sensitive chorale introduction leading into a high-energy, rhythmically vital race to the conclusion. Melodic motifs are passed around the ensemble, forming a consistent ostinato pattern that serves at the backbone of the piece.
มุมมอง: 24
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Triplicate (Grade 3 Concert Band) | Gavin Tomasco | Score Video
มุมมอง 21หลายเดือนก่อน
Triplicate is a composition exploring different feels of triple meter. Written as an attainable challenge for a developing band, this piece provides the pedagogical opportunity to introduce concepts such as hemiola and polymeter to students. Students will learn to hear and play 3/4 and 6/8 stress patterns juxtaposed with one another. More complicated rhythmic concepts are reserved for the percu...
Friendship, Youth, and Wisdom (TTBB Choir) | Gavin Tomasco | Score Video
มุมมอง 933 หลายเดือนก่อน
Performed by University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, directed by Dr. Mark Stover (4/6/24) “Friendship, Youth, and Wisdom” is a meditation on three and a half centuries of American choral music, tying a thread from William Billings, the “Father of American Choral Music,” to the present day. To accomplish this, I’ve woven together a quotation of Billing’s patriotic Revolutionary War anthem “Chest...
12,000 Years: Water and Stone (Flute / Marimba Duet) | Gavin Tomasco | Score Video
มุมมอง 193 หลายเดือนก่อน
“12,000 Years: Water and Stone” is inspired by the waterfalls and gorges in Watkins Glen State Park in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. The work is loosely programmatic, and illustrates the experience of walking along a hiking trail in the park, seeing waterfall after waterfall (the park boasts 19). I approached this pictorially, with the flute representing the shape of flowing wate...
Three Songs of Shattering (SATB Choir) | Gavin Tomasco | Score Video
มุมมอง 1673 หลายเดือนก่อน
Awarded the 2023 Brehm Prize in Choral Composition Performed by U-M Chamber Choir, directed by Dr. Eugene Rogers (10/6/23) Three Songs of Shattering is a setting of an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem by the same name. The poem is in three parts, and it is set respectively in three short movements. Each movement deals with the idea of grief experienced in a different way. The first movement explore...
paper airplanes | Gavin Tomasco | Performed 2.6.23
มุมมอง 96ปีที่แล้ว
"paper airplanes" invites the audience to take an active role in the process of composition and seeks to break the barriers between the perceived roles of "composer," "performer," and "audience member." Instead of inhabiting these roles, we can collectively collaborate as "music-makers." Performed by (left to right): Chasten Musenda, Tenor Saxophone Abi Middaugh, flute Emily Becker, voice Diego...
inb etw een | Gavin Tomasco | Performed 10.7.22
มุมมอง 18ปีที่แล้ว
inb etw een is an exploration of liminality, utilizing the space in between keys, meters, and notes. It comments on the nebulousness I am experiencing at the space in between two major phases of my life. In-betweenness is at once momentary and infinite, and exploring it allows us to better understand how we respond to change and constancy in our lives. This piece is exciting to me because it wi...
omg I got to see this live
i love this so much
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