Beat the Retreat
composer: Steve Martland
for eleven players
Commissioned work: Commissioned by the BBC for the Pucell Tercentenary
Premiere: July 3, 1995 Cheltenham, Everyman Theatre (UK) Cheltenham Festival 1995 · Steve Martland Band · Conductor: Steve Martland
July 3, 1995 Cheltenham (UK) Cheltenham Festival 1995 · Conductor: Steve Martland · Steve Martland Band
Orchestra instrumentation: ssax.asax(ssax).barsax.0-0.1(pictpt).1.0-mar.drum kit-egtr.pno.bgtr-vn
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 13' 0''
Year of composition: 1995
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This is dancing music. The use of a ground bass suggests formal Baroque models but the shifted beats and polyrhythms also evoke Latin American, and near the end, ‘techno’ dance music.
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Steve Martland · Horses of Instruction (2001)
Steve Martland- Horses of Instruction
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