Roger Smalley

The material in Missa Brevis is drawn from the sixth of William Blitheman's varients on the plainsong Gloria Tibi Trinitas, which is to be found in the Mulliner Book. This piece appears in its origina...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).3.3(II=bcl.III=Ebcl+bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 4431 – timp – perc(5): vib/2 whip/TD/indonesian bell tree/9 c.bells/mar/glsp/2 SD/t.bells/BD/12 tom-t or timb/5 susp.cym/2 claves/4...

This highly virtuosic 15-minute work from 1967 is based on Smalley’s own Missa Brevis. Material from that earlier work is deliberately pulverised and disintegrated, before being, in the composer’s on...

Monody was composed between October 1971 and February 1972. It is the first piece in which the technique of ring-modulation plays a structural, as opposed to colouristic and decorative, role. This is...

Rampant antiphonal brass and percussion characterize Smalley's Pulses for 5x4 Players: a huge and gripping work which uses electronic treatment of sound to explore the spatial relationship between gro...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1.0 – 1110 – vln.vla