Curtains for Brass Band and Narrator by Matthew Nunes Sheet Music for Brass Band at Sheet Music Direct

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Jessica Mitfords incisive 1963 essay Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain is the inspiration for this piece. Mitford dissects the embalming industry while baring the ironies and inhumanities of its processes. First included in her book The American Way of Death, we follow Mr. Jones from death to burial and experience all the tools, techniques, and abuses in-between. It was required reading for me as a high school junior and a text that grows more haunting with each added birthday candle.

The piece follows Mr. Jones on his journey with narrated extracts from Mitfords essay. The opening chords are constructed from the pitches D-flat, E-flat, A-flat, and another D-flat, following Igor Stravinskys final chord in The Rite of Spring (D-E-A-D). From here the material alternates between chromatically descending, as the corpse nears its final resting place, and ascending, while the embalmers fight to champion death.

- Matthew Nunes
Niceville, July 2020

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