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I Ching Music logoOpus 45
The Outer Ring
for brass trio
 
Opus 44aOpus TourOpus 46
Cover photoCOver for Burdick's Op. 45

Date composed:
  1983, then Revised in February 1988

Video below was performed by:
Richard Burdick's horn & swam ensemble

Find the sheet music on MusicaNeo:

Opus 45 Brass Version (trumpet, horn & trombone)

Opus 45a Horn Version (3 horns)
(you can hear the recording here)

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Program Notes:

The Outer Ring is part of a series of compositions based on the planets of our Solar System., along with the Inner Ring for Bell Choir and the Middle Ring for Brass Quintet, plus Mars for Horn quartet.

These are early I Ching scale works.

This was performed a number of times by the "Mills Brass Trio"
Janet Finkbeiner, trumpet
Richard Burdick, horn
&
Jim McKee, trombone

The Mills Brass Trio was a class at Mills College for Jim & Janet and coached by trumpeter Jay Rizzetto.

This work is in two versions:

Op. 45 for trumpet, horn and trombone
or
Op. 45a for three horns

Find the sheet music on MusicaNeo:

Opus 45 Brass Version

Opus 45a Horn Version
(you can hear the recording here)

Burdick Opus 45 notes

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

 

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Movements List:

I. Uranus
II. Naptune
III. Pluto

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Sheet Music Samples:

Movement one page one

Burdick's Opus 45 M1 pg1Movement two page one

Burdick's Opus 45 M1 pg1Movement three page one

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Opus 45 Brass Version (trumpet, horn & trombone)

Opus 45a Horn Version (3 horns)

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