Mothership - Orchestra Version

for Orchestra, Soloists, and Electronica - Proceed to purchase if you would like to buy a study score.   Conductor's Score and Performance Parts for RENTAL ONLY. Please send an email to info@aphramusic.com to request a rental application form. Approximate Duration: 10' YouTube Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFh7LAFel4w&feature=youtu.be PROGRAM NOTES This energetic opener imagines the orchestra as a mothership that is ‘docked’ by several visiting soloists, who offer brief but virtuosic riffs on the work’s thematic material over action-packed electro-acoustic orchestral figuration. The piece follows the form of a scherzo with double trio (as found in, for example, the Schumann Symphony No. 2). Symphonic scherzos historically play with dance rhythms in a high-energy and appealing manner, with the ‘trio’ sections temporarily exploring new rhythmic areas. Mothership shares a formal connection with the symphonic scherzo but is brought to life by thrilling sounds of the 21st Cent