Английская Википедия:Blood on the Floor (Turnage)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Featured article Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox musical composition Blood on the Floor is a suite in nine movements composed for orchestra and jazz trio by Mark-Anthony Turnage. It was composed over a span of three years (1993–1996) after a commission from the Ensemble Modern—a German music group—to produce a piece for an evening jazz event in 1994. After the performance, Turnage expanded the piece into the larger nine movement suite that is now performed. During this period of composition, Turnage's brother Andrew died of a drug overdose, shaping the music greatly. As a result, drug culture is one of the main themes in the suite. Blood on the Floor also draws influences from the paintings of Francis Bacon and Heather Betts; the suite's title is an adaptation of Bacon's painting Blood on Pavement.
Like other compositions by Turnage, Blood on the Floor incorporates elements of both classical and jazz music. Due to this, it has been described as being part of the "third stream" genre, a term coined by Turnage's former teacher Gunther Schuller. The suite is written as a concerto grosso and features a blend of classical, jazz, non-western and electronic instruments. As part of this fusion, the suite contains space for soloists to improvise in four of its movements. Blood on the Floor shows elements of non-functional harmony and has complex rhythmic changes, often changing metre every bar. Motifs are found recurring throughout the suite.
Blood on the Floor was premiered by the Ensemble Modern at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in May 1996. The suite received a mixed reception from music critics. Some enjoyed the suite's fusion of classical and jazz music, while others found it to be an unfulfilling combination. Outside of the Ensemble Modern, Blood on the Floor has been performed by various ensembles, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Composition
Blood on the Floor was composed by the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage between 1993 and 1996.[1][2] During his compositional process, Turnage used sketches he had produced during a period of collaboration with the saxophonist Martin Robertson. These sketches were used to create the prologue of the suite.Шаблон:Sfn
The piece was commissioned in 1993 by the Ensemble Modern—a German group dedicated to contemporary classical music[1][3]—for an evening jazz event with pieces by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and George Antheil.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[4] The version Turnage produced for the event was ten minutes long and was performed in 1994.[4] After the event, Turnage expanded the piece into a nine movement suite; the final composition ended up being a little more than an hour long.Шаблон:Sfn[4] This was largely due to persuasion from the Ensemble Modern, who have a history of working on larger musical projects.Шаблон:Sfn During the composition of Blood on the Floor, Turnage consulted Robertson, John Scofield and Peter Erskine, who would be playing in the jazz trio with the Ensemble Modern.Шаблон:Sfn Erskine objected to the level of notation in the drum kit part for the suite, leading Turnage to have a "culture shock" after restricting his score to its essential elements to allow Erskine more freedom.[5]
Blood on the Floor takes inspiration from the paintings of Francis Bacon as with Turnage's previous works, like Three Screaming Popes.[6] The suite's name is an adaptation of Bacon's painting, Blood on Pavement.[1]Шаблон:Sfn Other works by Bacon, as well a painting by the Australian artist Heather Betts, influence elements of the suite.Шаблон:SfnBlood on the Floor reflects Turnage's personal feelings on the death of his brother Andrew,[7] who died of a drug overdose during its composition.Шаблон:Sfn[8] As a consequence, drug culture is an overarching theme in the suite.Шаблон:Sfn Due to this, the music in Blood on the Floor is often quite harsh, with Turnage commenting that it was "probably the nastiest thing I have written".Шаблон:Sfn
Instrumentation
Blood on the Floor is written as a concerto grosso, a form of concerto played by a group of soloists.Шаблон:Sfn The concertino consists of a jazz trio of electric guitar, soprano saxophone (doubling alto saxophone and bass clarinet)Шаблон:Sfn and drum kit.[3][9] For the suite's orchestration, Turnage uses a mixture of orchestral and non-orchestral instruments, including instruments usually associated with jazz, as well as unusual instruments like synthesisers and scaffolding.Шаблон:Efn The score calls for a large ripieno consisting of the following instruments:Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-break Woodwinds
- 2 flutes (doubling alto flute and scaffolding)
- 2 oboes (doubling cor anglais)
- 2 clarinets in BШаблон:Music (doubling bass clarinet, first doubling scaffolding)
- 2 soprano saxophones (doubling alto saxophone)
- 2 bassoons (doubling contrabassoon)
- 2 horns in F
- 2 trumpets in C
- 2 trombones
- euphonium
- tuba
Percussion (two players)
- 2 bass drums
- 2 bongo drums
- tabla
- bodhran
- splash cymbal
- piece of wood (hit with hammer)
- tambourines
- sleigh bells
- tam-tam
- 4 gongs (assorted sizes, one played with bow)
- bonshō (temple bells)
- cowbells
- log drum
- marimba
- vibraphone
- glockenspiel
- crotales (sometimes played with bow)
- tubular bells
- bell plates
- maracas
- claves
- lion's roar
- djembe
- saucepan
- piano (doubling celesta and Fender Rhodes electric piano/Yamaha DX7)
- 2 violin Is
- 2 violin IIs
- 2 violas
- 2 cellos
- double bass
- electric guitar
- bass guitar (doubling fretless bass and double bass)
Structure and music
Character
Blood on the Floor has been described as a "third stream" piece: a fusion of classical and jazz styles.Шаблон:Efn[10] The suite uses jazz chords as its harmonic basisШаблон:Sfn and displays aspects of non-functional harmony.Шаблон:Sfn Blood on the Floor is neither tonal nor atonal: some passages feature tonal ideas, but there is never a single key that represents a movement. Turnage contrasts thematic ideas with no transitions in between them, creating juxtapositions. Driving rhythms are found in many sections of the suite. Complex metres are used, and metre changes occur in almost every bar.Шаблон:Sfn
In terms of notation, the concertino parts include a mixture of notated music and space for improvisation.Шаблон:Sfn Improvisation forms a major part of Blood on the Floor and appears in four movements (II, V, VI and VIII).Шаблон:Sfn Although his works combine classical and jazz music—of which improvisation is a key part—this was the first time that Turnage integrated improvisation into one of his compositions.Шаблон:Sfn
Motifs
Turnage employs musical motifs heavily throughout Blood on the Floor. In his 2008 Doctor of Musical Arts thesis, Matthew Styles identifies a total of eight motifs employed that appear in the prologue and reappear throughout the other eight movements. Styles argues that this use of motifs adds musical unity to the suite and fulfils "the idea of a prologue": to introduce themes found later in the suite. One motif used is a recurring glissando played by the brass and low woodwind, which appears in the first, fifth and seventh movements. Another motif featured is a chromatic melody similar to the one played by the soprano saxophone. This melody is played by the bass clarinets and horns, and features a "spinning" cycle of notes based around DШаблон:Music and E. It appears in the prologue and returns multiple times in the ninth movement, "Dispelling the Fears".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Movements
Blood on the Floor consists of nine movements:Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Ordered list Each movement features different instrumentation and number of players. A full playing of the suite takes approximately 70–80 minutes.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
I. Prologue: "Blood on the Floor"
The suite's prologue is scored for the orchestraШаблон:Sfn and lasts for approximately eight and a half minutes.Шаблон:Sfn The prologue features offbeat rhythms played by the soprano saxophone in a rotation of five chromatic notes.Шаблон:Sfn The movement is based around the note E, which is rooted in bass instruments at each end of the movement.Шаблон:Sfn Chromatic progressions are a major part of the prologue, which along with irregular shaping and metre changes makes the movement have an unrelenting feel. For example, in bars 66–69, Turnage uses a progression of metres: Шаблон:Music → Шаблон:Music → Шаблон:Music → Шаблон:Music. The loss of one quaver (eighth note) when changing to a Шаблон:Music bar gives the music a stumbling feeling.Шаблон:Sfn When paired with an accentuated upbeat, this groove helps to reinforce the melody and move the movement forward.Шаблон:Sfn Reflecting this, the music critic Andrew Clements wrote that the prologue of Blood on the Floor "is perhaps the most uncompromising and unforgiving music Turnage has written to date".Шаблон:Sfn
II. "Junior Addict"
Шаблон:Quote box This movement is scored for soprano saxophone, electric guitar and orchestra.Шаблон:Sfn "Junior Addict" is a wordless musical setting of the eponymous poem, written by Langston Hughes.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The movement is in ternary formШаблон:Sfn and lasts for approximately five and three-quarter minutes.Шаблон:Sfn "Junior Addict" opens with a theme played by the soprano saxophone, which has been described as a "very lyrical and haunting melody". This reflects the influence of Turnage's brother, whom the movement is dedicated to.Шаблон:Sfn The saxophone melody was later revisited by Turnage and used in the third movement of his 1994 composition, Two Elegies Framing a Shout.Шаблон:Sfn "Junior Addict" also features an electric guitar solo.Шаблон:Sfn
III. "Shout"
"Shout" is scored for the orchestraШаблон:Sfn and lasts for approximately five and a half minutes.Шаблон:Sfn "Shout" both starts and ends with passages played by the scaffolding, which is used as an unpitched percussion instrument throughout the movement, usually paired with the horns. The movements uses a ritornello taken from the prologue, which is found near melodies played by the clarinets.Шаблон:Sfn
IV. "Sweet and Decay"
"Sweet and Decay" is scored for flutes, soprano saxophone and orchestra.Шаблон:Sfn The movement is approximately nine minutes long.Шаблон:Sfn "Sweet and Decay" originated from one of two sketches Turnage produced for his soprano saxophone concerto, Your Rockaby. The sketch was not used there, as Turnage thought that having two slow movements would be "overdoing it".Шаблон:Sfn In "Sweet and Decay", Turnage uses melodic cells set against a chordal background. The movement features solos from the saxophone and flute.Шаблон:Sfn At the end of the movement, Turnage instructs that there should be pause before "Needles" begins. This can be replaced with a full interval if wanted.Шаблон:Sfn
V. "Needles"
"Needles" is scored for a jazz sextet and five other performers (trumpet, two horns, trombone and bass clarinet).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The movement is a variation of ternary form (AABA)Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and lasts for approximately four and three-quarter minutes.Шаблон:Sfn Out of all the nine movements, "Needles" reflects conventional jazz performances the most. The movement starts with a soprano saxophone head melody, which then progresses to sections of soprano saxophone and electric guitar solos.Шаблон:Sfn The brass section continually interrupts the latter solo.Шаблон:Sfn These interjections accentuate the offbeats, giving the section a jazzy, big band feel.Шаблон:Sfn This feeling is reinforced by the presence of a big band-style riff, played by the group of five performers.Шаблон:Sfn After the solos, the movement returns to another playing of the head.Шаблон:Sfn
VI. "Elegy for Andy"
"Elegy for Andy" is scored for electric guitar and orchestra.Шаблон:Sfn It lasts for approximately eight and a quarter minutes.Шаблон:Sfn The movement has an angular theme played by electric guitar, which creates a sense of unease.Шаблон:Sfn The angular feeling is created by Turnage's use of wide intervals of 7ths and 9ths.Шаблон:Sfn This guitar melody progresses into an improvisational section. "Elegy for Andy" incorporates musical quotations from a piece played by Turnage at his brother's funeral and Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly. According to Clements, this movement is Blood on the Floor's "emotional heart".Шаблон:Sfn
VII. "Cut Up"
The movement is scored for alto saxophone, trombone, drum kit and orchestra.Шаблон:Sfn "Cut Up" features a trombone solo that was described as "fiendish" by Aksel Tollåli of Bachtrack.[4] The movement lasts for approximately six and a quarter minutes.Шаблон:Sfn "Cut Up" has a complex structure and has been variously labelled a variation on verse and refrain, rondo and ternary forms. The movement's form can be represented using letters as ABCDACEAFCA.Шаблон:Sfn
VIII. "Crackdown"
"Crackdown" is scored for a jazz trio of guitar, bass clarinet and drum kit. The movement is written in the jazz fusion style, and features improvised solos from all three members of the trio.Шаблон:Sfn "Crackdown" is the shortest movement in Blood on the Floor and lasts for approximately four and a quarter minutes.Шаблон:Sfn The movement is conventionally not conducted.[4][11] It opens with a long improvised solo from the drum kit, which lasts for around two minutes. The solo has no metre.Шаблон:Sfn During the solo, the drum kit is asked to start pianissimo, before "gradually moving towards rhythmic stability". After the solo ends, the drum kit is instructed to support a funk groove.Шаблон:Sfn After solos from the guitar and bass clarinet, the drum kit continues, ending the movement softly.Шаблон:Sfn
IX. "Dispelling the Fears"
"Dispelling the Fears" is scored for two trumpets and orchestra.Шаблон:Sfn The movement takes inspiration from Dispelling the Fears, a painting by the Australian artist Heather Betts, and is dedicated to her and her husband Brett Dean. "Dispelling the Fears" is taken from a previous concerto of the same name that Turnage had composed in 1994.[12]Шаблон:Sfn It is the longest movement in Blood on the Floor and lasts for approximately fifteen and three-quarter minutes.Шаблон:Sfn
The movement's style is dissimilar to that of the other movements, bar "Sweet and Decay": instead of focusing on rhythmic modulations like the other movements, "Dispelling the Fears" is centred on slowly moving chords.Шаблон:Sfn Like "Sweet and Decay", the movement features use of cells instead of repeating melodic ideas.Шаблон:Sfn "Dispelling the Fears" uses previous themes encountered in Blood on the Floor: the chromatic saxophone melody from the prologue appears again, now appearing as one of the movement's main themes. It is joined by the chord progression from "Needles" which takes place during that movement's solos.Шаблон:Sfn The music played by the two solo trumpets has been compared to the style of Miles Davis.Шаблон:Sfn
Performances
Blood on the Floor was premiered in London in May 1996 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.[13]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It was again performed by the Ensemble Modern at the Salzburg Festival in August 1997.[13] The suite had its American premiere on 28 September 2001 at the Miller Theatre, New York, performed by the Absolute Ensemble under the baton of Kristjan Järvi.[14] As the performance was following the events of the September 11 attacks, the concert almost did not take place due to the "provocative" nature of the music. However, the theatre's manager, George Steel, decided to allow the concert to go ahead, as he did not want to "to infantilize the audience".[14]
During his first month as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle conducted a performance of Blood on the Floor in October 2002.Шаблон:Sfn The orchestra also held a workshop event for young musicians to play the suite; according to Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, who ran the event, "the Blood on the Floor project [gave] a chance to open up a dialogue with young people about drugs.[15]
Blood on the Floor has become a frequently performed piece, often performed several times a year.[16] Stefan Asbury conducted a Boston Symphony Orchestra performance of Blood on the Floor in the Seiji Ozawa Hall to close the 2006 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music.Шаблон:Sfn[11] Also in 2006, the suite received its Scottish premiere, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.Шаблон:Sfn Six years later, a performance by the Oslo Philharmonic saw Blood on the Floor conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, with solo performances from Robertson, Erskine and John Parricelli.[4] On 9 April 2021, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performed Blood on the Floor at the Hamer Hall, conducted by Fabian Russel. This was part of their Metropolis concert series, and featured solo performances from Carl Mackey (saxophone), James Sherlock (guitar) and Dave Beck (drum kit).[12]
The British choreographer Wayne McGregor chose to use Blood on the Floor as the basis for his debut full-length ballet, L'Anatomie de la sensation.[17] The ballet was influenced by Francis Bacon and premiered in July 2011 with the Paris Opera Ballet. During its run at the Opera Bastille, Turnage's score was performed by the Ensemble intercontemporain.[1]
Reception
Blood on the Floor is commonly seen as Turnage's most extensive fusion of classical and jazz styles.Шаблон:Sfn The suite received a mixed reception from critics. Some critics, like Clements, praised the suite. In a review for The Guardian, Clements commented that in Blood on the Floor, "Turnage's use of rock and jazz elements [are] integrated much more thoroughly into the melting pot of his style" than prior compositions, and are "one of the foreground elements for the first time".[7] In The Times, Ivan Hewett appraised how Turnage worked with jazz musicians to create a "truly collaborative piece".[18] In a more mixed review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell said that "[...] this is definitely not easy listening entertainment" but considered it to be worth the listening effort.[10]
Other critics took a dislike to the suite. Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Richard Wolfson considered Blood on the Floor a "clumsy attempt" at a fusion of classical and jazz music.[19] Nick Coleman of The Independent agreed, questioning the nature of the work: Шаблон:Blockquote
Recordings
| Title | Conductor | Performers | Label | Year | Шаблон:Abbr |
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| Unknown Public 08: Sensuality: Essence And NonsenceШаблон:Efn | Peter Rundel | Ensemble Modern, with John Scofield (guitar), Martin Robertson (saxophone) and Peter Erskine (drums) | Unknown Public | 1996 | Шаблон:Sfn |
| Blood on the Floor | Argo | 1998Шаблон:Efn | [9]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn | ||
| Some Days; Your Rockaby; Dispelling the Fears; Blood on the Floor | Decca | 2001 | Шаблон:Sfn[20] | ||
| Blood on the FloorШаблон:Efn | Arthaus Musik | 2006 | [8][21]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn |
See also
Notes, references and sources
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