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Doom mt erebus stuck on9/25/2023 The man finally reaches the top of the mountain, in a blazing suspended chord feeling the sun on his face, looking over the beautiful plains of white snow that is Antarctica. A trombone cadenza depicts the man processing what has happened, understanding his grievous injuries, before deciding to make one final climb to the nearby summit. However in this movement, we follow a single survivor crawling out of the wreckage onto the icy mountain slope. 257 people died in the crash with no survivors. Movement II, The Frozen Slopes, depicts a fictional scenario post crash. The “camera” shows the flight in the distance fading from view, spiralling out of control towards the mountain, before four unison Trombones end the movement with a enormous shot note, as the plane crashes. The trombones reiterate the fanfare motif, in a panicked, agitated manner, before reversing the multi phonics that depicted the ascension, to depict the flight plummeting to the ground. There is a moment of calm, the eye of the storm, before finally, the disaster is imminent. For a while, the aircraft is battered around in perilous weather, climbing higher and higher, using ambitious tonal centres and rising patterns. Trombone multi-phonics are used to depict the rise of the aircraft and the roar of the engines. Movement I, Flight, depicts an aircraft taking off with a sense of foreboding doom. The trombones use extended techniques including multi-phonics, glissando, trills and tremolo to create a dramatic soundscape, rich in expressive opportunity to depict a specific narrative. The work reflects the modern orchestral style of playing, featuring atonality rarely seen in the banding world. There is little detail about the event, and Dale chose to create a dark story line of events that could have taken place to depict. Erebus is a work in three movements, depicting the crash of Air New Zealand flight 901 into the antarctic mountain Mt Erebus in 1979.
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