Brass Quintet - advanced
SKU: CY.CC2996
Composed by Henry
Wolking. Contemporary.
Score & Parts. 16 pages.
Cherry Classics #2996.
Published by Cherry
Classics (CY.CC2996).
ISBN
9790530058152.
Here
is a description of the
music by the composer,
Henry
Wolking.
Mannequin
Challenge is a work for
brass quintet inspired by
the participatory video
fad in which a group of
people are shown posing
stock-still for the
camera while music is
playing in the
background. It became a
social media
participating video fad
in November 2016 (with
the hashtag
#mannequinChallenge).
Since then it has had
become a world-wide
phenomena, sort of like
the Ice-Bucket Challenge,
which I considered
writing about, but then
got cold feet. This work
inverts the mannequin
challenge sequence in
that the music plays
first, and then the
musicians freeze in brief
silence. Though the
freezes are only in 3/8
in between the
particularly beguiling
musical interludes, they
may be extended to any
length. Long live social
media and brass quintet
mannequin
challenges!
This piece is
scored for traditional
brass quintet with
Trumpets in B-flat and
for advanced performers
of about 2+ minutes in
length.
