Categories: TEST PIECES (Major Works), NEW & RECENT Publications Composer: Simon Dobson
Grade 6.0 Duration 19.45
Alan Turing is considered the father of modern computational science and much, if not all, of our modern computer technology and the connectivity that we now take for granted is born of the work of this one great, but troubled man. His famous test was designed to prove whether artificial intelligence (AI) could successfully imitate human thought. The single movement of The Turing Test is essentially non-programmatic, but it does seek to show something of the emotion and colour of Turing’s life in its different sections. The composer employs bi-tonality and complex rhythms to show opposing worlds colliding. At the end of each test, we must decide: has true AI been born?
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer / arranger: Robert Farnon Difficulty level: Championship
Set as the Championship Section Test Piece for Butlins Mineworkers Contest 2012.
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Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works) Composer / arranger: Robert Farnon Difficulty level: Championship, First
Set as the Championship Section Test Piece for Butlins Mineworkers Contest 2012.
Utopia is the name of a book written by the English author Thomas More and was published in 1516. The title is a word thought up by More himself, after the Greek language, meaning "Nowhereland" and leading to the invention of the words utopian scheme and utopian. Utopia pictured an ideal state on an island far from the inhabited world. This idea was the basis of the composition. It makes one think of Oregon in variety of themes and style. Utopia also exists of a combination of styles that breathe the atmosphere of film music. However, Utopia sounds less American. The slow and stirring middle part for example is closer to the European romanticism: the chord signals in the brass section remind of Wagner's music.
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