Insomniac Sky

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Duration

12:00

Program Note

"This is the second movement of a new multi-movement work, following Sunset, in which Hubble Space Telescope Views will be the finale.

"Faint lights keep us looking at the sky as nocturnal life awakens."

--Matthew H. Fields

Instrumentation

The players are the same as in Hubble Space Telescope Views, and the percussion is a subset of those used in that piece.

• piccolo
• 2 flutes
• 2 oboes
• English horn
• 2 clarinets
• bass clarinet
• 2 bassoons
• contrabassoon
• 4 horns
• 3 trumpets
• 2 trombones
• bass trombone
• tuba
• timpani
• 3 percussionists
• Player 1
• bell tree
• glockenspiel
• crotales
• Player 2
• vibraphone
• Player 3
• almglocken
• harp
• large string ensemble (e.g. 15/14/12/10/6)

Year of Composition

2010.

Score

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