Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.953618

Composed by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP). Contemporary,Latin,World. Score and parts. 42 pages. Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) #4792829. Published by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) (A0.953618).

Pájaros for solo flute and strings (2017) captures the springtime songs of many Texas Hill Country birds, including the beloved Golden-cheeked Warbler, and sets them to flirtatious Latin rhythms.

As an avid bird lover, the composer sets some of her favorite bird songs to music in Pájaros for solo flute and strings. The birds featured in this piece nest every spring in the Hill Country of Texas, west of Austin. As daylight turns to dusk, the Bewick's Wren's tuneful song unfolds over an Argentine tango rhythm, accompanied by the Northern Cardinal, Lesser Goldfinch, and Northern Bobwhite. A Red-tailed Hawk startles all the songbirds into momentary silence. As they resume their singing, dusk fades into darkness and various insects start their incessant chirping. The mysterious Chuck-will's-widow sings its mournful call all night long, set here to a Venezuelan pasaje rhythm. When day breaks, the Golden-cheeked Warbler sings its two songs from the treetops to stake out its territory and attract a mate. The Cuban danzón provides the backdrop for its flirtatious tunes.
Duration about 6:00.
Recognition:
Pájaros was selected as one of 55 finalists chosen from almost 2200 entries from 76 countries in the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra 2018 Call for Scores.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.953627

Composed by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP). Contemporary. Score and parts. 51 pages. Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) #6383557. Published by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) (A0.953627).

Celebrate women scientists!

Metamorphosis (2019) by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) for flute, harp, and string orchestra, commissioned by Balcones Community Orchestra, celebrates the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), pioneering entomologist, naturalist, and artist.
Duration 5:30 minutes.

Commissioned by the Balcones Community Orchestra of Austin, Texas, Metamorphosis (2019) by Adrienne Inglis for solo flute, solo harp, and string orchestra, honors the life and work of pioneering entomologist, naturalist, and artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). As she carefully documented in illustrated detail the life cycle of so many insects, Metamorphosis musically follows a butterfly from adult, egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The piece opens with an ostinato pattern in the strings over which the flute and harp play fluttering modal melodies. The strings and harp represent the egg stage with minimalistic layers of a single pitch. To recognize Merian’s time in Suriname and her discovery of many insect species there, a cheerful tune fashioned after traditional Arawak folk songs informs the busy larvae in the caterpillar canon. A bit of contemplative dorian polyphony laced with metamorphic machinations demonstrate the remarkable transformation of the pupa as well as Merian’s time at a devout Labadist religious commune. The butterfly emerges from the pupa with a flute/harp cadenza and then the strings underscore the adult butterfly with a return of the ostinato. The piece ends with the same ostinato as the beginning such that the piece could loop seamlessly as in a true life cycle.

This performance does not include the revisions made in this version of the music: https://youtu.be/GIjQpkXl6Uc

Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.787304

Composed by Greg Bartholomew. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 149 pages. Burke & Bagley #10645. Published by Burke & Bagley (A0.787304).

Summer Suite was composed for trumpeters Brian Chin (Seattle, Washington), Nathaniel Mayfield (Austin, Texas), Bryan Appleby-Wineberg (Glassboro, New Jersey), Adrian Kelly (Perth, Australia), Marco Esperti (Italy), and Matt Burke (Manchester, U.K.). James Ackley and the Palmetto Camerata recorded an arrangement of Summer Suite for trumpet with both piano and string quartet for their 2012 CD, New American Works for Trumpet, released on the Beauport Classical label. The accompaniment is available in arrangements for piano, string quartet, combined piano & string quartet, saxophone quartet, string orchestra, chamber orchestra, wind ensemble and organ. Instrumentation: Solo Trumpet, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn in F and Strings, with optional percussion. Part 1, POPSICLE ROCKET SUNRISE, is duration approximately 4 minutes. Percussion: triangle, snare & suspended cymbal. Part 2, STILL LIFE WITH MELON & SAND, is duration approximately 5-1/2 minutes. Percussion: timpani. Part 3, RED CHERRY LARK, is duration approximately 4 minutes. Percussion: marimba.