Music archive entry



Composer:
Stephen Montague
Title:
Thule Ultima
Instrumentation:
Fl, ob, cl, hn, bsn
Duration:
3 minutes
Difficulty:
Harder
Technical Issues:
Apart from the final chord, the piece is played entirely with the mouthpieces or reeds of the instruments, and involves a series of techniques for obtaining different sounds from these. The score contains a full explanation of the notation used.
Programme note:
Thule Ulitima is a Roman word for the most distant regions, remote and foreign territories. This work explores a few foreign territories and distant regions of the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn and along the way discivers a few unusual sounds. It was commissioned in 1999 for the Chamber Music Exchange by Thalia Myers.
Availability:
From BMIC, the publisher



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22nd October 2001