Five Witnesses, for woodwind quintet
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$20.00
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for woodwind quintet COMPLETE SET (score and parts)
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Five Witnesses is a brief, five movement work for woodwind quintet. It was premiered in 1994 at the Pine Mountain Music festival by Penny Fischer, flute, Jennet Ingle, oboe and English horn, Linda Baker, clarinet and bass clarinet, John Peiffer, horn, and Steve Ingle, bassoon.
The “Five” in the title refers to the five members of the quintet, the five movements of the composition and the five-note motive on which all the music is based. “Witnesses” refers to a human scenario that suggested the idea for the piece to me: I thought it might be interesting to think of the five-note motive as the basic signature of some kind of extraordinary, and perhaps deeply moving, event (the nature of which is left completely to the imagination) – an event witnessed by five individuals, each of whom experience the incident through the lens of a unique life experience and a personal set of values and cultural metaphors. Since we assume that something really did happen, the five-note motive, like the elusive “objective reality” of the event, is the most basic material for the entire piece. But I sought to make each movement as distinct from the others as I could, evoking an individual human personality for each one.
The “Five” in the title refers to the five members of the quintet, the five movements of the composition and the five-note motive on which all the music is based. “Witnesses” refers to a human scenario that suggested the idea for the piece to me: I thought it might be interesting to think of the five-note motive as the basic signature of some kind of extraordinary, and perhaps deeply moving, event (the nature of which is left completely to the imagination) – an event witnessed by five individuals, each of whom experience the incident through the lens of a unique life experience and a personal set of values and cultural metaphors. Since we assume that something really did happen, the five-note motive, like the elusive “objective reality” of the event, is the most basic material for the entire piece. But I sought to make each movement as distinct from the others as I could, evoking an individual human personality for each one.