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We Give Thanks for Brass Octet, Op. 150a

from CD49: Brass Music of Richard O. Burdick by Richard_O_Burdick

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About His composition We Give Thanks for Brass Octet, Op. 150a the composer writes: "I remember writing this at my cabin in Bear Valley during the Summer of 2007, a very enjoyable time watching mountain birds out of my window." (This was his last year playing for the Bear Valley Music Festival (1992-2007)).
This composition was originally like birdcalls all singing "We Give Thanks" but in many different random times and just sort of cacophonous. Originally this work was in 10/8 with a beat of 2+3+1+3+1, the beat has been kept in the revision, but has been changed to a 5/8 time signature. The work was begun as an I Ching Cycle work in I Ching Scales v.3.

The almost complete revisions in January of 2019 keeps the same set of I Ching scales (2, 21, 23, 17, 8, 25, 20, 42, 12, 3, 45, 27, 35 and 24) This set of 14 scales gives us a huge amount of information. The scales plus one small section from the original (IC 45 measures 1-4 or 161-170 in the original version in 5/8) and the motive "We Give Thanks" is a huge amount of information way more than needed for a musical composition.

With the use of the flow into and through the 14 different scales in somewhat a random way, this work is unique in its flow through tonalities. Unique except for the work “The Asteroid Belt.”

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from CD49: Brass Music of Richard O. Burdick, released July 28, 2020

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Richard_O_Burdick regina, Saskatchewan

Richard O. Burdick is 1st horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra. prior he worked in California incl. full-time work for Sacramento Symphony.

He has performed over 200 concertos & solo recitals.

Mr. Burdick composes in styles: avant-garde, expressionist, microtonal, minimalistic, modernist, neo-classical, & new-age-meditation.

He has many CD’s of his own works, Bach, natural horn & classics. ... more

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