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Time Messages, completed in June, 1988, is a seventeen minute composition in five movements for brass quintet.  While the title refers to the nature of the rhythmic motion and metric impulses in the individual movements, Time Messages is comprised of strongly contrasting moods to form a large, abstract musical structure.

The Prelude-Fanfare is an ABA form with the A sections featuring accented chords while the B section is characterized by a syncopated figure over and under a pedal point.

Distant Voices, with all instruments muted, has two elements:  (1) a timbrally modulated pedal point (trombone and tuba) and (2) a very slow and spacious 'blues' figure.  In contrast to the first movement, the sense of pulse and accent are virtually non-existent with the trumpets and horn floating independently above the pedal point.

Variants is a scherzo-like movement in three sections with the first and third, in various 8 meters, shifting accents and meters while the second features the ensemble in rhythmic agreement.

The Chorale functions on two levels:  (1) the opening and primary gesture is a two-part contrapuntal phrase (horn and tuba) which occurs six times in various forms while (2) a chordal figure slowly ascends through the texture at a slower rate of speed.  In addition to the illusion of two different tempi, the harmony which comprises the chordal figure is a trichord quite unrelated to the fourths and fifths that dominate the duo.

Opening with a tuba solo, the Fantasy-Epilogue alternates ensemble sections that are characterized by repeated notes with solos for trombone and horn and a muted duo for trumpets.  The movement closes with outwardly expanding harmonies in the characteristic repeated notes with accents which are drawn from the first movement. --Frederick Fox

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