Essay

Bullard, Alan

Duration

9m 00s

Publisher

Harlequin Music

Composed

1983

Instrumentation

Wind Ensemble

Scoring

2 tpt, hn, trb, tba

Availability

Contact CoMA

About the work

‘Essay’ for brass is in the form of a single movement with a slower central section, and both melodically and harmonically is based on the interval of a second.

First Performance: Farnaby Brass, Witney, Oxon, Dec 1983

Technical notes

‘Essay’ sets out to explore the sonorities set up by brass instruments playing notes which are an interval of a second apart.