double bass, percussion and piano
duration 9-12'
composed in 1965
dedication: for Jeffrey Levine
published by Novello/Wise Music
status: available for performance
see also Triad IIb
first performance: Jeffrey Levine, Richard Fitz, Justin Connolly; Tanglewood, 2 August 1967
February 1 1976, Collage New Music, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
According to the concert programme in the BSO archives, the concert containing the premiere of Triad IIa was broadcast. However, no tape has yet come to light.
Triad II is one of a group of pieces related not so much by musical gestures as by similarities of formal articulation. In the present work the emphasis is upon the constant re-ordering of a number of simple elements heard at the opening; in the course of the three sections they undergo variation and expansion as well as reorientation relative to one another.
Justin Connolly
Percussion: vibraphone, 5 chinese blocks, 3 chinese tam tams, 2 timpani, side drum, 3 suspended cymbals, bass drum, small gong.
Pianist plays also: tam-tam, bass drum, small brass bell. The piano's lid should be removed.
Duration 9 minutes from Novello score, 12 minutes from Novello printed catalogue.
Instrumentation details, programme note: from score.