Clarinet
SKU:
ST.Y214
Composed by
Morgan Hayes. Wind &
brass music. 1 minute 30
seconds. Score. Stainer &
Bell Ltd. #Y214.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y214).
ISBN
9790220221293.
1st
perf: Douglas Mitchell,
Clare Hall, Cambridge, 26
October 2002
Morgan Hayes's
Totem, for B
flat clarinet, is a
short, single melodic
line that in its brief
duration challenges
players of Grades 7 or 8
standard or above to
encompass widely
contrasted dramatic and
lyrical moods within the
primitive vision of its
title. The composer had
no specific ethnological
source in mind when
composing this piece.
Rather, his aim was to
suggest the complex
rhythms and rituals of
tribal life, remote in
time from the
sophistications of the
modern world, but in
spirit closer perhaps to
our own than we might
care to imagine.
