Beat the Retreat

composer: Steve Martland

for eleven players

Commissioned work: Commissioned by the BBC for the Purcell Tercentenary
Premiere: 3. Juli 1995 Everyman Theatre, Chettenham - Steve Martland Band - Dirigent: Steve Martland
Instrumentation: ensemble
Orchestra instrumentation: 0.0.0.ssax.asax(ssax).barsax.0-0.1(pictpt).1.0-mar.drum kit.egtr.pno.bgtr-vln
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 13' 0''
Year of composition: 1995
Difficulty: 5
Edition: study score
92 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-1928-6
Order number: ED 12603

Price: 47.95 €
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Description

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.

Other editions

LSL 2896-01 = performance material

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