Martland, Steve - Beat the Retreat

Beat the Retreat - for eleven players

This is dancing music. The use of a ground bass suggests formal Baroque models but the shifted beats and polyrhythms also evoke Latin American, and near the end, ‘techno’ dance music.

Instrumentation: Ensemble
Binding: Saddle stitching
Edition Type: study score
Orchestration: 0.0.0.ssax.asax(ssax).barsax.0-0.1(pictpt).1.0-mar.drum kit.egtr.pno.bgtr-vln
Publisher: Schott Music
Composition: 1995
Duration: 13
Difficulty: 5
ISMN: M-2201-1928-6
ISBN: 979-0-2201-1928-6