D AV I D M A S L A N K A

F O RV I O L I N , C L A R I N E T, & P IA N O

Trio No. 1

c h a m b e r m u s i c b y dav i d m a s l a n k a

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T R I O N o. 1for Violin, Clarinet, & Piano

M A S L A N K A P R E S S

N E W YO R K

FULL SCORE IN C

(1971 / 2012)

D AV I D M A S L A N K A

Trio No. 1F O R

V I O L I N , C L A R I N E T, & P IA N O

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Total Duration: 13́ (All timings are approximate)

Note to Performers v

Program Note v

I (3́ 30̋ ) 3

II (2́ ) 7

III (2́ ) 10

IV (1́ 20̋ ) 12

V (3́45˝) 16

Contents

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This music makes very exacting demands in every detail. If you are as patient as you can be in your practice then the music will achieve a kind of fleeting glow. Pay as careful attention as possible to tempos and dynamics.

Note to the Performers

Forty years after writing this Trio I am able to see its relationship to composers of the mid and early 20th century such as Crumb, Messiaen, Webern, and Bartok, and back further to Chopin and Bach. The five movements are internal, whispery, and sometimes suddenly surprising. They are little ‘postcards’ from the psyche. I took the opportunity in revising the piece to give my younger self a composition lesson, amplifying expressive values, and filling out melodies that had more to say.

I. Maybe your introduction to a quiet and withdrawn fellow who doesn’t meet your eye.

II. Passacaglia – a throwback to the Baroque, but more in line with miniatures by Webern.

III. A kind of time travel with roots in Bach, Chopin, & Webern IV. The 1970s idea of ‘tonality in quotes’ – reference (with long-

ing!) to the old tonal style. It was at this point in my compos-ing life that I began to question the use of irony in music, to realize that I was searching for the heart center, and that for me it lay in tonality and singing melody.

V. Fanfare and scherzo: skittery and flittery, a brush of moth wings against the face. This is the largest and most developed movement, acting in some ways as a summary for the whole piece.

(December 2012)

david m aslank a

Program note

T R I O N o. 1for Violin, Clarinet, & Piano

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David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1943. He attended the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied composition with Joseph Wood. He spent a year at the Mozarte-um in Salzburg, Austria, and did masters and doctoral study in composition at Michigan State University where his principal teacher was H. Owen Reed.

Maslanka’s music for winds has become especially well known. Among his forty-plus works for wind ensemble and band are Symphonies 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9, twelve concertos, a Mass, and many concert pieces. His wind chamber music includes four wind quintets, four saxophone quartets, and many works for solo in-strument and piano. In addition, he has written a variety of or-chestral and choral pieces.

David Maslanka’s compositions are published by Maslanka Press, Carl Fischer, Inc., Kjos Music Company, Marimba Pro-ductions, Inc., and OU Percussion Press, and have been recorded on Albany, Reference Recordings, BIS (Sweden), Naxos, Cambria, CRI, Mark, Novisse, AUR, Cafua (Japan), Brain Music (Japan), Barking Dog, and Klavier labels. He has served on the faculties of the State University of New York at Geneseo, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, and since 1990 has been a freelance composer. He now lives in Missoula, Montana. David Maslanka is a member of a s c a p.

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