Laurent Bômont
Travel(s) Diaries
Short instrumentation: 6 3 22 2 - 4 6 4 4, sax(5), timp, t.bells, glock, perc(3), vc, cb(3)
Duration: 22'
Instrumentation details:
1st flute (2 players)
2nd flute (2 players)
3rd flute (2 players)
cor anglais
1st oboe
2nd oboe
clarinet in Bb
clarinet in Eb
1st clarinet in Bb (8 players)
1st bass clarinet in Bb
2nd bass clarinet in Bb
2nd clarinet in Bb (6 players)
3rd clarinet in Bb (4 players)
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
3rd horn in F
4th horn in F
1st cornet in Bb
1st trumpet in Bb
2nd trumpet in Bb
2nd cornet in Bb
3rd cornet in Bb
3rd trumpet in Bb
bass trombone
1st trombone
2nd trombone
3rd trombone
tuba
contrabass tuba
1st euphonium
2nd euphonium
baritone saxophone in Eb
1st tenor saxophone in Bb
1st alto saxophone in Eb
2nd tenor saxophone in Bb
2nd alto saxophone in Eb
timpani
glockenspiel
tubular bells
snare drum
1st percussion
2nd percussion
violoncello
double bass (3 players)
Travel(s) Diaries
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Work introduction
In June 2019, I will be commissioned by the Lyon Metropole Orchestra to write a free work for wind band. The duration was to be between 15 and 20 minutes. From the outset, the question of form arose in direct relation to duration and I saw the opportunity to realise an idea that had been in my head for a long time: to write a work in which bel canto, jazz, atonal music or a choral song could be mixed.
Naturally, the trap to avoid was to make a patchwork of music and to do this I had to keep a coherent and common musical material throughout the piece. But it was also necessary to explain the reasons for this original (even strange) choice. That's when the literary pretext appeared to me; how to justify so many styles in the same work? The life story of a man was the ideal pretext. This is why it is necessary to read the text I wrote as a preamble, which gives the argument of Carnets de voyage(s).