Student Composition Recitals
Movements
I. Conscious
II. Mull
Performer(s)
Simon Yeh, soprano sax
Julia Brummel, alto sax
Jonathan Lyons, tenor sax
Kyle Darwin, baritone sax.
Recital Date
4-27-2015
Academic Year
2014-2015
Instrumentation
Saxophone quartet
Duration
8:11
Program Notes
I’ve often described myself to people as an over-thinker. When analyzing this piece to find some sort of story or program, I saw myself. It seemed to me that the music described one who is cursed and blessed with thoughtfulness- perceiving the world, analyzing everything the senses take in and rehearsing them in the mind. I named the piece Neuro- referring to the nervous system. The first movement, “Conscious,” describes this intake of information in 4 sections: a blurry morning, the bustle of the day, a short respite from the intake, and another bustle. The second movement, “Mull,” describes a session of deep thoughtfulness. A descending scale followed by a large ascending leap represents the original thought. The over-thinker sits and rehearses this thought and takes loosely related rabbit trails to interesting places of his or her imagination. I encourage the listener to view the music as describing the intangible processes of the mind and imagination- perception, processing, rehearsing, etc.
Recital Program
Copyright
© 2015 Andrew McFarlane. All Rights Reserved
Keywords
Cedarville, music, composition
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
McFarlane, Andrew, "Neuro" (2015). Student Composition Recitals. 102.
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/music_composition_recitals/102
