PERFORMANCE NOTES

The ensemble should be arranged around the

audience with only the solo trumpet visible. If
possible, the ensemble should be in the balconies
about the audience.
The solo trumpet should act!as conductor, establishing
the timing and giving cues as noted.
Durations of measures are given in seconds. All
timings are approximate. Measures without an
indicated timing are left to the discretion of the
performer.
NOTES ON THE PROGRAM

This work evokes Mahler to share the musical space. The

work begins with a long trumpet solo, which projects the
plan for the entire work. The soloist then invokes the
sound of each of the members of the ensemble with a
series of calls. Invocation is a free, sometimes aleotoric
and dependent on the performers interactions through
cues.
-notes by the composer

Several times I wrote "Wow!" next to

a work being played...
-Peter Jacobi, Herald Times

justinmerrit

INSTRUMENTATION
solo trumpet
2 trumpets in C
2 horns in F
2 trombones

In
2 00 0
composer
Justin Merritt
(bn.
1975)
was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP
Foundation/Rudolph Nissim Award for Janus
Mask. He is also the winner of a host of other
awards including the 2008-09 Copland Award,
the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer
Institute Prize for River of Blood, and the 2006
Polyphonos Prize

He received his Bachelors from Trinity

University and his Masters and Doctorate
from Indiana University.
He studied composition
demands
with Samuel Adler, Svenan audience's
David Sandstrm, Claude
attention
Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund,
Merritt's
and electronic and computer music
piece was the
with Jeffrey Hass. He is currently
standout.
Assistant Professor of Composition at
-Rob
St. Olaf College.
He resides in
Hubbard,
Northfield, Minnesota with his wife
Pioneer Press
Yuedong and their children Cullen
Fang Ouxiang and Molly Fang
Qinghe.

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Transposed Score

Invocation
for solo trumpet and brass

Solo Trumpet

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Janus Mask!................................................................................................................................
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winds in 2s
River of Blood!...........................................................................................................................winds in 2s
Dervish!.......................................................................................................................................winds in 2s
Lachryme!............................................................................................................................string orchestra

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solo

Corde natus!........................................................................................................................................SATB
Lamentations!.....................................................................................................................................SATB
Nativity!...............................................................................................................................................SATB
Adoro Te Devote!...............................................................................................................................SATB
Fire Sermon!..................................................................................................................SSATB & orchestra
Dissonance!...................................................................................................................................song cycle
Dhammapada!..............................................................................................................................song cycle
London Thoroughfare, 2AM!.........................................................................tenor, horn, violin, & piano
May Evening in Central Park.........................................................................................
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baritone & piano
5 Preludes!............................................................................................................................................piano
Chaconne: Mercy Endures!................................................................................................................piano
Windchimes!.........................................................................................................................................piano
Standard Deviation!...........................................................................................................................violin
Veloce!.....................................................................................................................................violin & piano
Coupling!..............................................................................................................................................organ
Drum Break!.................................................................................................................................percussion

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choral/vocal

orchestral

other compositions by justinmerritt

Ravening!................................................................................................................................string quartet
Invocation!..................................................................................................................................8 solo brass
The Day Florestan Murdered Magister Raro!..........................................clarinet, violin, cello, & piano
Trio!...............................................................................................................................violin, cello, & piano
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