| ID | 0300D60D-3476-4431-B5D0-DCDA4710C085 |
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| Titlecode | X655101 |
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| Title Name | Horn Quintet 'La Barca' (horn, violin, viola, cello, piano) |
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| Marketing Copy | Recording by the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, Albany Records (2005). |
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| Instrumentation | Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano |
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| Commission | Commissioned by Music from Angel Fire, 1999, supported by The Bruce E. Howden Jr. American Composers Project. |
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| Dedication | (not set) |
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| Program Notes | Horn Quintet La barca was commissioned for the 1999 Music from Angel Fire Festival, with the generous support of the Bruce E. Howden, Jr., American Composers Project. This is the third "water music" piece which I have written. The others are "to be sung on the water" (1988) for violin and viola and Wedge (1990) for orchestra. This Horn Quintet caries the subtitle La barca ("the boat" in Italian) primarily because the entire piece, which lasts about 14 minutes, is moving toward a barcarolle (a piece with a lilting rhythm suggesting the songs sung by Venetian Gondoliers at the end. Even La barca itself seems to rock on the tongue in the manner of a gondola. After a brief opening featuring stopped horn and muted piano, the character of the extended first section suggests water music: rocking chords in the string trio and piano accompany an extended lyrical solo in the horn. This returns in varied from just before the barcarolle. A good deal of the middle of the piece is fast, with the chords of the opening transformed into syncopated rhythms and rapid alternation between strings and piano. The horn again takes the lead here, as it does in most of the piece. By the way of contrast, some of the piece features slower tempi: in addition to the ending barcarolle, there is a slow section in which a sinuous melody in the horn is partially echoed in the strings and reprised in the piano. --Donald Crockett |
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| Title Brand | 2 |
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| Year Composed | 1999 |
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| Copyright Number | (not set) |
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| Copyright Year | (not set) |
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| Duration | 15 |
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| Ensemble Size | 5 |
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| Date Created | 2008-10-31 20:33:18.000000 |
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| Date Updated | 2025-09-30 20:33:18 |
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| Inhouse Note | (not set) |
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| Premier Performance Memo | (not set) |
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| Recording Credits | Recording by the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, Albany Records (2005). |
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| Review | "The real high points of the evening, though, were two gorgeous works by the West Coast composer Donald Crockett. There’s a great naturalness and effortlessness in Crockett’s writing...His horn quintet 'La Barca' (with Laurel Ohlson on horn) was far closer to the surface, but no less beautiful--a work of relentless inventiveness from a composer we really should hear more of." --Stephen Brookes, The Washington Post |
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| Title Category | 2 |
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| Set Series ID | (not set) |
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| Title Instrument Category Text | Quintet |
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| Title Sub Category Text | (not set) |
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| Title Sub Category | -1 |
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| Title Instrument Header | 20 |
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| Title Grade Text | (not set) |
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| Clean Url | horn-quintet-la-barca-x655101 |
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