Music Finland Core

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<p>The
 Mediterranean looms large in my family history and genealogy. Learning 
the mythology of Greece and Turkey as a child through books and bedtime 
stories, I came to associate this body of water with mystery, no small 
amount of adventure and, despite my strong physical and psychological 
attachment to the North, a distant, muted sense of ultimate home. As I 
draw primarily on landscape for creative impetus, during a trip to the 
region in 2007, I expected to find in the lands of my ancestors a potent
 new source of ideas.</p><article><p>Although the vistas were arresting and beautiful, they did not 
resonate in me on a deep level. What I – a northerner by more than birth
 and temperament, it would seem – was allowed to carry away from that 
trip were merely fond recollections of a foreign place, profoundly 
“other” from my experience: the iconic, archetypal “Mother Sea” and its 
numberless shades of blue, the quality of the sunlight, the smell of 
flowers and herbs in the air. These are the impressions informing The 
wine-dark sea, a dreamlike postcard written after the fact, through a 
haze of memory. I could add to this a feeling of blissful honeymoon 
detachment.</p><p>This new version, made for my friend Risto-Matti Marin, in a way 
brings the piece full circle back to its roots in North American 
postminimalism. Previous incarnations, having made use of early 
instruments, or instruments with folk origins like the Baltic kantele 
family, have carried a sense of the contemporary overlaying a deeper 
antiquity, a fundamentally Old World sound. Adapting it for piano, it 
suddenly dawned on me how New World the basic musical material was, and 
that, however great the temporal or geographical remove, one can never 
fully leave one’s origins behind.</p></article>

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Abbreviation	Instrument
Woodwind
acl	alto clarinet
afl	alto flute
arec	alto recorder
asax	alto saxophone
barsax	baritone saxophone
barhn	baritone horn
bcl	bass clarinet
bfl	bass flute
bob	bass oboe
bsax	bass saxophone
bsn	bassoon
cbsn	contrabassoon
cl	clarinet
ehn	English horn
fl	flute
hn	French horn
ob	oboe
pic	piccolo
rec	recorder
sax	saxophone
srec	soprano recorder
ssax	soprano saxophone
trec	tenor recorder
tsax	tenor saxophone
Brass
ahn	alto horn
atrb	altotrombone
barhn	baritone horn
btrb	bass trombone
cornet	cornet
euph	euphonium
fhn	flugelhorn
hn	French horn
tba	tuuba
thn	tenor horn
trb	trombone
trp	trumpet
Percussion
dr	drums
glock	glockenspiel
mar	marimba
perc	percussion
timp	timpani
vibr	vibraphone
xyl	xylophone
Strings
db	double bass
gamba	viola da gamba
str	strings
vla	viola
vlc	cello
vln	violin
Other
acc	accordion
cel	celesta
cemb	harpsichord
chords	chords
elbas	electric bass
elg	electric guitar
elorg	electric organ
elpno	electric piano
guit	guitar
harm	harmonium
hca	harmonica
hp	harp
instr	instrument
kantele	kantele
keyb	keyboard
live electr	live electronics
mand	mandolin
mel	melody
org	organ
pno	piano
synth	synthesizer
tape	tape
Vocal
alto	alto
baryt	baritone
basso	bass voice
ch	choir
chc	childrens choir
chf	female choir
chm	male choir
chx	mixed choir
cten	countertenor
mezzo	mezzo-soprano
sopr	soprano
speaker	speaker
ten	tenor
voc	vocal

Symphony orchestra
2222 4331 11 1, str = 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 French horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, one other percussionist, harp and strings
Wind band
2252 3 423 21212 3 = 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 5 clarinets, 2 bassoons - 3 saxophones - 4 French horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones - 2 cornets, alto horn, 2 tenor horns, baritone horn, 2 tubas - 3 percussionists
Big band
221 4 4, pno, guit, db, dr = 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, baritone saxophone, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, guitar, double bass, drums
Additional codes
+	fl+pic = flutist doubles on piccolo
/	pno/org = can be played on either piano or organ
lib	ad libitum
obl	obligato
str	str: 65432 = specified number of string players
str min	str min: 65432 = at least 65432
str max	str max: 65432 = not more than 65432
solo	vln solo = violin is the solo instrument in a work not obviously for solo violin

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