Commissioned by the Northwest Music Center, North Dakota, dedicated to the Minot State College Wind Ensemble. Symphony no. 2 is based on an earlier symphony for winds, originally composed in 1961 and reworked into its final form in 1972.
Composer:
Year(s) Composed:
1961
Revisions: 1972
Difficulty:
Grade 6
Duration:
17 minutes
Instrumentation:
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Band: 1(8).2.eh.4(8).ecl.acl.bcl.cacl.cbcl.2-2ax.tx.bx-4.4.4.bhn(2).1(2)-timp.2perc(6)[vib.chi.xyl.bl.gong.cym.bd.sd.rtc.scym]
Movements:
I. Sussurando-Energico
II. Elevato
III. Slancio
Publication Information:
Boosey & Hawkes (1977)
Premiered:
Availability:
Available for Purchase
Recordings:
Resources:
- The Wind Repertory Project
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music Online
- AllMusic
- MusicWeb International
- WASBE Journal (2003)
- Hal Leonard
- Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
- Hauswirth Grades 4-6
- Wallace-Corporon Repertoire
- Running Annotated Bibliography
- Smith Program Notes
- Suppan Neue Lexikon
- Cipolla-Hunsberger Repertoire