Fanfare Transformations
for Unaccompanied Solo Trumpet
Fanfare Transformations takes notable brass fanfares and transforms them into new solo works for trumpet. The collection is ever growing with movements that have been completed since 2015. The collection will grow more extensive as time goes on. Feel free to look at the completed movements below.
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Collection #1
I. Sokol Alterations
dur ca. 4min 15sec
Leos Janacek's ‘Sokol Fanfare’ is a large brass fanfare featuring 11 different trumpet parts, 3 of which are Bass Trumpets. The fanfare was first written for the Sokol Slet, a gymnastic event in Prague in the mid-19th century. Soon, it became the opening and last movements of Janacek's large-scale work, ‘Sinfonietta’. This famous fanfare features an opening motive that is constantly ringing throughout the piece. The piece develops a growing momentum with more voices adding and altering the original first statement. In "Sokol Alterations", the piece inverses the idea from its original source material. While the original piece builds momentum, ‘Sokol Alterations’ diminishes creating a slowing effect. The motives are also become less strict with tempo as the piece plays out. This changes the bold quality of the Janacek's work and creates intimate emotions instead.
This piece is part of the New Britain Art Museum Collaboration with Helkin F. Sosa performing trumpet
II. Common Man's Pursuit
dur. ca. 4min
‘Common Man's Pursuit’ takes inspiration from Aaron Copland’s 'Fanfare for the Common Man'. The work develops from the simple motives of the original fanfare. Techniques like fragmented melodies, interval development and textural themes are used to transform the large orchestral fanfare into an unaccompanied solo trumpet piece. However, the piece does not resemble a uniting character like its source material. The atmosphere is more isolated to show one person trying to completely multiple different roles. This shows the differences from when 'Fanfare of the Common Man' was written to our modern era.
III. Peri Sketches
dur. ca. 2min 30sec
‘Peri Sketches’ takes inspiration from Paul Dukas's 'Fanfare from La Peri'. This adaptation takes the original themes of the fanfare and uses Dukas's use of chromaticism to deviate away from the original theme. The fanfare is first broken apart in the beginning of the work. As time goes on, the motives morph to become more like the original source material until the grandeur of the fanfare is rekindled.
