Atlantic Suite (2011)
one piano four hands
The Brobdingnagians are a fictional nation of giants in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Naturally, a mouth organ (harmonica) belonging to one of these giants would be massive. It was my intent to express the basic capabilities of a harmonica, but heightened with the added range and timbres of pipe organ and trumpet. The result is a piece with a fresh library of sounds.
”…how contemptible a thing was human grandeur,
which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I.”
The Brobdingnagians are a fictional nation of giants in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Naturally, a mouth organ (harmonica) belonging to one of these giants would be massive. It was my intent to express the basic capabilities of a harmonica, but heightened with the added range and timbres of pipe organ and trumpet. The result is a piece with a fresh library of sounds.
[score]
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