Shadowgraph, 5 for creative orchestra - Lewis, George 1952- (Peters, 2022)
Shadowgraph, 5 may be played by an ensemble of any size or instrumentation, from solo performer to large orchestra. No conductor is required. While the composer suggests a duration of approximately 10-20 minutes, the piece can be performed in just a few minutes or drawn out to marathon length. Rather than playing from a conventional score or measures of staff notation, every member of each instrument group including a saxophone group (woodwind instruments), bass group (string instruments), and more improvises freely from a grid (or "module") of 16 different written instructions or musical sketches appropriate to that group. As the title implies, this is the fifth in a series of Shadowgraph pieces, all five of which were composed for "creative orchestra," between 1975 and 1977. - Performance notes in English. - Biographical notes in English and German