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== Program Notes ==
 
== Program Notes ==
"Cycle" is commissioned by Intersection for Lee Vinson with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Cycle is written for and dedicated to Lee Vinson, whose musicianship and artistic insight I greatly admire. Lee has a vast, comprehensive, and fascinating collection of antique and refurbished snare drums, each with a strong, distinctive personality. I wanted to write a piece that pays tribute to several drums from Lee’s collection that stand out to him, so I asked him to choose a group of drums to be featured in the work. Lee then sent me a demonstration of each drum’s characteristics and attributes – there are four in total. Each instrument was so vibrant and unique that I wanted to create a work that had an almost theatric component, so that the individual drums would almost be treated as characters. 
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Cycle is comprised of three acts, each of which contain two movements – one interlude for multiple drums and one solo for a featured drum.  The idea of each act is to have the featured solo drum fight its way out of different rigid textures of the multiple drum interludes.  I tried to strategize ways of freeing each of these drums in ways that complement their personalities. Consequently, the title of each interlude refers to the method each of the solo drums uses to free itself and the title of each solo refers to the way each of the solo drums chooses to express itself once it’s free.
  
 
==Awards==
 
==Awards==
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==Recent Performances==
 
==Recent Performances==
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== Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
 
== Works for Percussion by this Composer ==

Latest revision as of 04:20, 7 August 2025

Erin Graham

General Info

Year of Published: 2021
Duration: 00:12:00
Difficulty: Professional
Publisher:
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Movements

1. Interlude: Rupture
2. Solo: Stretch
3. Interlude: Parse
4. Solo: Frame
5. Interlude: Trace
6. Solo: Epilogue

Instrumentation

4 Snare Drum


Errata

Program Notes

Cycle is written for and dedicated to Lee Vinson, whose musicianship and artistic insight I greatly admire. Lee has a vast, comprehensive, and fascinating collection of antique and refurbished snare drums, each with a strong, distinctive personality. I wanted to write a piece that pays tribute to several drums from Lee’s collection that stand out to him, so I asked him to choose a group of drums to be featured in the work. Lee then sent me a demonstration of each drum’s characteristics and attributes – there are four in total. Each instrument was so vibrant and unique that I wanted to create a work that had an almost theatric component, so that the individual drums would almost be treated as characters.


Cycle is comprised of three acts, each of which contain two movements – one interlude for multiple drums and one solo for a featured drum. The idea of each act is to have the featured solo drum fight its way out of different rigid textures of the multiple drum interludes. I tried to strategize ways of freeing each of these drums in ways that complement their personalities. Consequently, the title of each interlude refers to the method each of the solo drums uses to free itself and the title of each solo refers to the way each of the solo drums chooses to express itself once it’s free.

Awards

Commercial Discography

Recent Performances

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Snare Drum Works

Cycle
Interface

Vibraphone Works

Nocturne I

Additional Resources