Written for the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. The copious doublings and optional instruments add a good deal of character to this whimsical piece, which tells a history of wind instruments.
Composer:
Year(s) Composed:
1958
Difficulty:
Grade 6
Duration:
14 minutes
Instrumentation:
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Narrator & Band: 3(III=picc, others opt. extra picc, all=nose flute, I=soprano recorder, II=tenor recorder(opt)).2(opt=extra eh).eh.2(opt=extra bcl).bcl.2.cbn(opt)-4(I=shofar(opt)).3.3.1-timp.2perc[timp.sd.wb.scym.tam.2toms].db-bagpipe(opt).chinese flute(opt)
Movements:
One Movement
Publication Information:
Peters (1970)
Premiered:
Availability:
Available for Purchase
Recordings:
Resources:
- HEBM
- American Wind Symphony
- WASBE Journal
- Performer's Music
- Pieters Article
- Reynolds Literature
- Wallace-Corporon Repertoire
- Renshaw American Wind Symphony
- Running Annotated Bibliography
- Suppan Neue Lexikon
- New Music USA