Sounding the Deep: Signature Moments for Quartet

Signature MomentsFrom Sounding the Deep

For Quartet

Nigel Morgan

Arranged by Patrick Brandon

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Signature Moments

From Sounding the Deep

For Quartet

Nigel Morgan

Arranged by Patrick Brandon

About the music

Signature Moments began life as a series of twenty short piano pieces eachoccupying no more than a page of A4 landscape manuscript. Throughout August2011 they were released daily on the website of Sounding the Deep, a projectdevised by the composer Nigel Morgan in collaboration with the HullPhilharmonic Orchestra for the Cultural Olympiad 2012.

Since the advent of recording, musicians and listeners have tended to regard theCD as the definitive musical text and sadly stopped sounding the music by gettingtheir hands on it at the keyboard. This is what music lovers once did when a neworchestral work was published. They acquired the piano duet version, or indeed(as in Beethoven’s Symphonies, the piano trio version), and got to know the musicin a way that few people manage to do these days.

Nigel Morgan is very enthusiastic about making his orchestral and large ensemblemusic available in different and reduced scorings. These arrangements by PatrickBrandon have been commissioned in a similar spirit. Patrick was not only Nigel’steacher and mentor for some years but has edited many of Nigel’s compositionsfor publication. There really could hardly be anyone better to make thesearrangements!

Unlike the piano originals these four-part arrangements do have time-signaturesand conventional dynamics. They are imagined for a variety of possibleensembles and a guide to such possibilities can be found in the appendix to thisscore.

Performers should regard these pieces as starting points for their own versions.These could include their own bespoke arrangements – using Sibelius filesavailable on-line at soundingthedeep.co.uk. It may be a good idea to take a lookat the piano originals and read the detailed guide to how the music might bedeveloped further.

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Signature Moments

In Four Parts

Quasi Blues (q = 55)

The Wonderer

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

pesante

3

pesante

3 3

pesante

pesante

6

1

2

3

4

più f

(eco)

più f

più f

(eco)

più f

(eco)

11

1

2

3

4

3

3

3

più f

3

3

3

più f

3 3 3

più f

3 3 3

poco allargando15

a tempo

1

2

3

4

3 lontano

3 lontano

3

lontano

3

lontano

Risoluto (q = 80)

Coming to Consciousness

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

f

mf

ff

f

ff

mp

f

mf

ff

f

ff

mp

8

1

2

3

4

pp

mp sostenuto

risonare

sostenuto

risonare

pp

mp sostenuto

risonare

sostenuto

risonare

14

1

2

3

4

subito staccato e leggiero

meno f

meno f

subito staccato e leggiero

mf

subito staccato e leggiero

subito staccato e leggiero

mf

20

1

2

3

4

mf

sfz p

mf pp

ppp

dim. a niente

pp

mf

sfz

p

mf pp

ppp

ppp possibile

mf mf

sfz p

mf pp

ppp

a niente

mf

sfz p

ppp

A duo parte (q = 60)Circling the Planet, Daring the Jungles

q = q(q = 90)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

dolce e sostenuto

,

calmando

,

4:3

4

dolce e sostenuto

,

calmando

,

dolce e sostenuto

, calmando

, 4:3

dolce e sostenuto

, calmando

, 4:3

10

Voice

Voice

Voice

Voice

, scorrendo

, scorrendo

, scorrendo

, scorrendo

con forza ed enfatico

15

Voice

Voice

Voice

Voice

19

Voice

Voice

Voice

Voice

23

Voice

Voice

Voice

Voice

leggiero

leggiero

sforzato

leggiero

sforzato

meno

martellato

Con intenzione (q = 60)

An Unearthly Experience

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

p

p

p

enfatico

p

7

poco stringendo

1

2

3

4

5

distinto

poco cresc.

(eco)

distinto

(eco)

distinto

distinto

poco cresc.

11 A tempo

1

2

3

4

poco cresc.

poco cresc.

15

1

2

3

4

meno

meno

meno

deliberamente

meno

The Wonderer

Sample Arrangement: String Quartet

Quasi Blues (q = 55)

The Wonderer

Violin I

Violin II

Viola

Violoncello

pesante

3

pesante 3 3

pesante

pesante

6

Vln I

Vln II

Vla

Vc.

più f

(eco)

più f

più f

(eco)

più f

(eco)

11

Vln I

Vln II

Vla

Vc.

3

3

3

più f

3

3

3

più f

3 3 3

più f

3 3 3

poco allargando15

a tempo

Vln I

Vln II

Vla

Vc.

3 lontano

3 lontano

3

lontano

3

lontano

The Wonderer

Sample Arrangement: Wind Quartet

Quasi Blues (q = 55)

The Wonderer

Flute

Clarinet in Bb

Bassoon

Horn in F

f pesante

3

f pesante

3

3

f pesante

f pesante

6

Fl.

Cl.

Bsn

Hn

più f

(eco)

più f

più f

(eco)

più f

(eco)

11

Fl.

Cl.

Bsn

Hn

3 3

3

più f

3

3

3

più f

3

3 3

più f

3

3

3

poco allargando15

a tempo

Fl.

Cl.

Bsn

Hn

3

lontano

3 lontano

3

lontano

3 lontano

The Wonderer

Sample Arrangement: Brass Quartet

Quasi Blues (q = 55)

The Wonderer

Horn in F

Trumpet 1 in Bb

Trumpet 2 in Bb

Trombone

f pesante

f pesante

( 3

)

f pesante

3 3

f pesante

gliss.

6

Hn

Tpt 1

Tpt 2

Tbn.

più f

(eco)

più f

(eco)

più f

gliss. più f

(eco)

11

Hn

Tpt 1

Tpt 2

Tbn.

più f

3

3 3

3

3 3

più f

3

3

3

più f

3 3 3

poco allargando15

a tempo

Hn

Tpt 1

Tpt 2

Tbn.

vib.

nat.3

lontano

vib.

nat.

3 lontano

vib.

nat.

3 lontano

vib.

nat.

3

lontano

The Wonderer

Sample Arrangement: Saxophone Quartet

Quasi Blues (q = 55)

The Wonderer

Soprano Saxophone

Alto Saxophone

Tenor Saxophone

Baritone Saxophone

pesante

3

pesante

3 3

pesante

( )

pesante

( )

6

S. Sax.

A. Sax.

T. Sax.

Bar. Sax.

più f

più f

(eco)

p

più f

(eco)

p

più f ( )

(eco)

11

S. Sax.

A. Sax.

T. Sax.

Bar. Sax.

3

3

3

più f

3 3 3

più f

3 3 3

più f

3 3 3

poco allargando15

a tempo

S. Sax.

A. Sax.

T. Sax.

Bar. Sax.

ppp

3 lontano

ppp

3 lontano

3 lontano

3

lontano