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Opus 9
The Inner Ring for bell choir
1983 

Premiered at the Julia Morgan theater in Berkeley, CA summer 1983

The original work is discontinued and replaced by:

Opus 9a
The Inner Ring for wind quintet
2020 

Opus 9b
The Inner Ring for brass quintet
2020   

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The "Ring" series of mine is a group a chamber works depicting the planets of our solar system. This work,the Middle Ring for Brass quintet, the out ring for Brass trio and Pluto form a set.

An etherial musical composition

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 The Inner Ring:
Sun for Quintet, Op. 9, No. 1 depicts the great power of the Sun. This was completely re-written in the year 2020. The original idea of Mr. Burdick’s use of the I Ching Scale was that scales number one through forty-eight were more representative of daily life and with number forty-nine in order we move to higher realms, such as the planets. With the evolution of Richard’s use of the scales his number ring system uses two numbers the first in the Shau Yung circle order and the second in what is considered the standard order. So in 1982 when he used No. 49 it is now 48-49 known as Advertising in Richard’s interpretation. A switch, or mistake took place and the revision is in scale 49-13 not 48-49, but being that they are next to each other the final key is virtually the same.

Mercury for Quintet, Op. 9, No. 2 includes the “cosmic order” melody presented in Richard’s “Planets for solo horn, Op. 19.” This was completely re-written in the year 2020. The composer said: “When I think of Mercury, I think of a hot gaseous planet with bright coloured toxic clouds. I am sure it is just my imagination . . . “

Venus forQuintet, Op. 9, No. 3 (I Ching Scale: v.1 #51) was revise in 2016 from the original 1983 version, and again revised in 2020. It is a soft luminous work.

Revision to be done before this work is released.

The Inner Ring for woodwind quintet, Opus 9a 1982
premiere 10/14/82

The "Ring" series of mine is a group a chamber works depicting the planets of our solar system. This work, the Middle Ring for Brass quintet, the out ring for Brass trio and Pluto form a set.

These works are early in my use of the I Ching scales. I had correlated the I ching Hexagrams 49 & up with the Sun and planets.

An etherial musical composition

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This work is part of a four-work set:

The Inner Ring, opus 9 for Bell Choir
1. Sun (I Ching scale v.1 #49)
2. Mercury (I Ching scale v.1 #50)
3. Venus (I Ching scale v.1 #51)

The Middle Ring, Opus 10 for Brass Quintet
1. Moon (meditation) (I Ching scale v.1 #52)
2. Mars (developing) (I Ching scale v.1 #53)
3. Saturn (I Ching scale v.1 #54)

The Outer Ring, Opus 45 for brass trio 1983 Rev. February 1988
1. Uranus (I Ching scale v.1 #55)
2. Neptune (I Ching scale v.1 #56)
3. Pluto (I Ching scale v.1 #57)

Charon, Opus 254 for Flute, horn, harp, cello with videotape (Charon is the biggest moon of Pluto, perhaps, so comparatively big that Pluto and Charon sort of spiral together.)

There are versions of these works:

The Inner Ring, opus 9a for woodwind quintet 1982
1. Sun (I Ching scale v.1 #49)
2. Mercury (I Ching scale v.1 #50)
3. Venus (I Ching scale v.1 #51)

Mars, opus 10b arranged for Horn Quartet