Blood on the Floor

for four jazz soloists and large ensemble

4 jazz soloists and large ensemble

Edition: Performance material

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The combination of jazz and the possibilities of contemporary orchestral sound plays a major role in the music of Mark-Anthony Turnage. Blood on the Floor is his first work to include a significant element of improvisation, including his performers in the compositional process from the very beginning. Francis Bacon’s painting gives the work its title and the sour, desolate atmosphere of the prologue: the succeeding eight movements wind up the tension until the spiralling freefall of the last movement, Dispelling the Fears.

Orchestral Cast

solo quartet: ssax(asax.bcl)-drum kit (h.h, sus cym, cow bell, metal bar, tamb, s.d, tom-ts, b.d)-egtr.bgtr
ensemble:2(afl.scaffolding).2(ca).2(bcl 1.scaffolding).2ssax(asax).2(cbsn)-2.2.2.euph.1-2perc(glsp, crot, vib, mar, tub bells, bell plates, Japanese temple bells, spash cym, cow bells, sleigh bell, 4gong, tam-t, 2tamb, bng, tabla, djembe, bodhran, log drum, b.d, marac, clav, lion's roar, large piece of wood, large saucepan)-egtr.hp.pno(cel.epno)-str(6.6.4.4.2 maximum)

Content

I Blood on the Floor (Prologue)
II Junior Addict
III Shout
IV Sweet and Decay
V Needles
VI Elegy for Andy
VII Cut Up
VIII Crackdown
IX Dispelling the Fears

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Title:

Blood on the Floor

for four jazz soloists and large ensemble

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music Ltd., London

Year of composition:

1993 - 1996

Duration:

80 ′

World Premiere:

May 1, 1994 · Frankfurt/Main (D)
Alte Oper
Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher · Ensemble Modern

May 30, 1996 · London (UK)
Queen Elizabeth Hall
John Scofield, electric guitar; Peter Erskine, drum kit; Martin Robertson, saxophones · Conductor: Peter Rundel · Ensemble Modern

Commissioned work :

Co-commissioned by the Ensemble Modern, The South Bank Centre for the Royal Festival Hall, Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Wien and supported bu the Siemens Kulturprogramm and The British Council