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by Christos Hatzis | Orchestra and Digital Audio

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• Strings (in Reconstitution): Cluster rip. Start at any point within the<br />

indicated range and rip extremely fast towards the upper end of the<br />

string range. No specific pitch should be discernible.<br />

• Small noteheads indicate (a) the approximate pitch at the end of a<br />

glissando, a boundary which should not be audible as a pitch or (b) a<br />

left-hand figuration which is not attacked at all by the right hand.<br />

Acknowledgements<br />

I would like to thank Arthur Post, music director of the <strong>Thunder</strong> Bay<br />

Symphony Orchestra for the inspiration he has been during numerous<br />

actual and online conversations leading up to the composition and premiere<br />

performance of <strong>Thunder</strong> <strong>Drum</strong>; the TBSO for commissioning this work and<br />

the Ontario Arts Council for providing funds for it. Last but not least, I would<br />

like to thank Tanya Tagaq for sharing her remarkable throat songs with<br />

me for the second movement. She is an inspiration and a bright star for<br />

her people during these days of strife but also reconstitution for the native<br />

inhabitants of Canada.<br />

Christos Hatzis, July 2016<br />

Instrumentation<br />

2 Flutes<br />

2 Oboes<br />

2 Clarinets in B-flat<br />

2 Bassoons<br />

2 Horns in F<br />

2 Trumpets in C<br />

1 Tenor trombone, with F-trigger extension<br />

Percussion:<br />

Timpani, bass drum, triangle, snare drum, large guiro, large tam-tam,<br />

slapstick, 4 tom-toms<br />

1 MIDI keyboard (for triggering Digital Audio samples)<br />

Strings (minimum 4.4.3.3.1)<br />

Transposed score

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