Hard Times
Marshall, Steve
6 SAATTB. Steve wrote Hard Times as a curtain-raiser for a playing day where good players were going to work on pieces involving challenging rhythms. The piece has constantly changing time signatures, successive bars being in 5/4, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4 and 1/4, then back round the cycle for the whole piece. Hard Times is hence a rhythmic study for ensembles; despite that Steve thinks that is also an interesting piece of music. Playing time is about two and a half minutes.
6 SAATTB. Steve wrote Hard Times as a curtain-raiser for a playing day where good players were going to work on pieces involving challenging rhythms. The piece has constantly changing time signatures, successive bars being in 5/4, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4 and 1/4, then back round the cycle for the whole piece. Hard Times is hence a rhythmic study for ensembles; despite that Steve thinks that is also an interesting piece of music. Playing time is about two and a half minutes.