Score and Parts Woodwind
Quintet (Score & Parts) -
Grade 5
SKU:
HL.4008710
Double
Wind Quintet, Grade 5
Score and Parts.
Composed by Gauthier
Dupertuis. FC Music
Publishing. Chamber,
Concert. Softcover. Hal
Leonard #FCMP006-ENS.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.4008710).
ISBN
9798350115758. UPC:
196288190905.
A
trip to India inspired
Gauthier Dupertuis to
write Dystopia for double
wind quintet, a
composition commissioned
to him by the Swiss
conductor Felix
Hauswirth, on the
occasion of the aVENTura
Festival in Lucerne in
September 2023 dedicated
to Swiss composers. In
October 2018 Gauthier
Dupertuis had the
opportunity of
accompanying the Wind
Orchestra La Landwehr de
Fribourg, (Switzerland),
asan instrumentalist
during a concert tour
around India. Travel
between the different
cities was punctuated by
the horns of the
different vehicles on the
road, which appeared to
be in competition with
each other in terms of
their creativity. Their
bus was no exception to
this rule, and the
composer ended up letting
himself be inspired by
this five-note pattern
which, through
repetition, ended up
anchoring itself deeply
in his brain, until it
served as a musical basis
for this work. Dystopia
exploits the notion of
duality: in two parts (I.
Preludio and II.
Toccata), the work uses
the double wind quintet
sometimes as a single
entity and sometimes as
two or three groups in
constant rhythmic,
harmonic, or writing
contrast. Like in a
dystopia, where the hero
constantly struggles
against an oppressive
society, the thematic
group linked to motif A
(that of the car horns,
set out at the beginning
of the Prelude) confronts
that linked to motif B
(exposed at bar 25)
throughout the piece.
Similarly, the free form
of the Prelude contrasts
with the more defined
structure of the Toccata
where the atmospheres
linked to the two
thematic groupsalternate.
Two short episodes
highlight a third motif,
more arioso, serving as
divertissement and
rhythmic appeasement
within the Toccata.
