Recoil By Joseph Schwantner

Performed by the North Texas Wind Symphony from their CD: Passions

It is the first of Schwantner's works for winds to include both saxophone and euphonium parts, and was not inspired by poetry. With Recoil, Schwantner utilizes a very limited palate and foregoes certain elements which characterized his first three works for winds (there is no use of micro-notation, "visual time signatures," or other unconventional musical notations).

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[KHowlett1981]

@MERTx123 From Nikk Pilato's dissertation, which the information for this video was taken: "The title of the work is in reference to the properties exhibited by matter involved in any sort of recoiling motion, such as a rubber band or a spring." Mystery solved.

[MERTx123]

@soggybagpipes I'd still love to know what Joseph Schwantner meant by that title!

[soggybagpipes]

@MERTx123 since its music...feel free to interpret it in any way you want lol.

[MERTx123]

This has quickly become my favorite band piece. Does anybody know why it's called Recoil?

[drumcorpsgirl1991]

There are two parts in this piece that make me want to die when we play it. lol. (Im a percussionist) The rest of the piece is easy... But those two parts are freaking hard as hell. The first 15 measures and the part when everyone sings is a b****. lol

[Rovelius39X7]

can you upload "And The Mountains Rising Nowhere?"

[Svendiezl]

This piece is much more fun to listen to than to play.

[nextJW]

I love this.....

[XM5]

stuck in my head as well . . .

[Savannapants]

This piece's been stuck in my head all day for some reason, love it!! :DD