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Grade: 3
Duration: 4'00"
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MetaMarch (2003)

Premiere: June 6th, 2003, by William Berz and the Raritan Valley Symphonic Band

Commissioned by the Raritan Valley Symphonic Band.

MetaMarch was the third (after Chester Leaps In and ImPercynations) of my Parody Suite pieces that quote and rework familiar themes from popular works for band. I wanted to create a "march movement" for the Parody Suite, so I chose three familiar marches, Americans We, Liberty Bell March, and National Emblem as source material, and ended up weaving in fragments from Chester Leaps In and ImPercynations to further round out the post-modern, self-referential nature of the piece, all tied together in a (mostly) straightforward march. While including all these various warped quotes, I wanted this piece to still sound like a march, instead of an abstracted, rhythmically-deconstructed shadow of one. Above all, it's intended to be humorous - I hope it brings you a smile!

Special thanks to William Berz and the Raritan Valley Symphonic Band for commissioning this work.

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