One Day Wonder #264

For 1 horn, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones and tuba.

Once again, we’re turning things around. This is one of the more complex efforts. Just suffice to say that everything gets turned around – only at different times. It all starts off in 5/4, which gives the each measure a nice center point. The first bar is reversed and repeated for the four-bar intro. Trumpet and trombone enter playing this floating melody for four bars and that gets turned around. That’s kind of how the rest of the piece goes. Towards the end, the forward and reverse melodies clash a bit, but it really adds to the tension. I like this piece a lot. It has motion without being busy, it explores the retrograde principle without sounding stilted and it manages to make a statement on its own.