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STEPTOE Roger, New York Fanfares

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Roger Steptoe, New York Fanfares for brass quintet

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Instrumentation detail: 2 trumpets in C, horn in F, trombone, tuba
Composer: Steptoe, Roger (*1953)
Year of composition: 2011
Duration: 10’
Level: intermediate / advanced
Genre: contemporary
Format: Score and parts
Publisher Editions Bim
Ref. # ENS207
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Although the 'ripieno' and 'concertante' elements are played equally by each of the five instruments in turn, this fast, virtuosic and pithy work is essentially a mini-concerto for brass quintet.

Cast in three main sections with coda, the work takes as its starting point the notion of 'fanfares'. Fanfares in many forms and guises, loud, soft, rhythmically charged and lyrically quiet and discrete.

The middle, slower section is the most sustained in terms of atmosphere, with a rocking, accompanying motif passed around the five instruments against snippets of 'fanfare-like' material heard elsewhere. The work ends as it starts.