Prelude, Fantasy, and Scherzo
© Copyright 2006 Douglas M. O'Grady
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Performance History
June 28, 2006
2006 International Tuba and
Euphonium Conference
by
Demondrae Thurman
and the Denver Brass

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Prelude, Fantasy, and Scherzo was commissioned by Demondrae Thurman for his performance with the Denver Brass at the 2006 International Tuba and Euphonium Conference (ITEC). The Prelude and Fantasy movements were composed using a harmonic language similar to the one I used in Irradiations: a "macro-sonority" serves as the underlying structural framework of the music, with kaleidoscopic fragments of the sonority serving as foreground material. In the Scherzo, the pitch classes of the "macro-sonority" were ordered and used to create special types of arrays which produced both the structural framework as well as all of the surface motivic material.