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Tiu is a Finnish version of the arcane Nordic word meaning twenty (tjog in Swedish). In more recent times it has mainly been used for counting eggs, best translated into English as score.In this case, the number twenty refers to two things: the 20th anniversary of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the twenty chords presented in the beginning of the piece, all sharing the note C. The distance between those chords starts from twenty beats and gets compressed until the value of zero has been reached.Twenty years ago, when I was writing Wing on Wing for the first season in the new hall, I came to understand that while music and architecture are closely related, they are fundamentally different. Music has its timeline: the relentless, objective causality chain that the composer, the performers, and the audience are bound to. In architecture, the timeline is created by the observer, the person in the space, by their movement through the space. In a live musical performance, you can't go backwards, every moment that has passed is gone forever. Obviously, this is not the case in architectural spaces.In Tiu I developed a few musical ideas and structures based on those thoughts on a purely metaphorical level. The concept of moving backwards, so easy in a physical space, so impossible in music, made me think of palindromes: phrases or sequences that read the same backward as forward. (The longest palindrome in everyday use is the Finnish word for soapstone vendor, saippuakivikauppias, according to Guinness World Records. We must take the idea of everyday use with a pinch of salt here.)In Tiu there are two palindromic structures. The gradually contracting and accelerating introduction returns as its palindrome later, this time in a stable, fast tempo. The long ritardando that follows the introduction comes back as accelerando. Palindromes have been used in composition for centuries, sometimes called retrograde. Retrogrades are often hidden, i.e., we don't perceive them as such because of the brain’s limited capacity for realtime calculation. In Tiu, the palindromes are clearly audible (I hope), as the material is quite simple, and the processes perfectly linear.There are fleeting fanfare-like motives in Tiu, which appear and disappear like mirages as the 12-minute piece unfolds. The epilogue with three trumpets dispersed in the auditorium is another take on the fanfare <a name="_Hlk148442548"></a>archetype: the slow and stately kind.

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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