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Agincourt Hymn
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General Info
Year: 1987
Duration: c. 17:41
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
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Cost: Score and Parts - $150.00 | Score Only - $35.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
The English victory over the French at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 inspired John Dunstable to compose “Agincourt Hymn” on which Bukvich based his work of the same name. The entire work, with one exception, is based on the serialization of various elements of the hymn. The exception is the melody in the saxophone soli section which is “Danny Boy” in inversion. The work carries two dedications: The first, to the composer’s father, Dan Bukvich, Sr. (hence the “Danny Boy” inclusion) and to Robert Pascoe (a horn player), late son of the composer’s mentor, Jane Pascoe. Hence, the work contains no horn part. A large percussion section, segments of chant and creative staging that has the trumpet (9 part) and trombone sections playing the final portion at the front of the stage, contribute to making the “Agincourt Hymn” one of Bukvich’s most dramatic and difficult works.
-Program notes by Susan G. Weaver
Commercial Discography
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State Ratings
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Recent Performances
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Works for Winds by this Composer
- Agincourt Hymn
- Before Thy Throne I Now Appear
- Buffalo Jump Ritual
- Casco Bay
- Celebrate Celebration
- Changing Concepts
- Child's Dream of a Star, A
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestral Winds
- Cowboys
- Dinosaurs
- Dream of Abraham, The
- Electricity
- Fanfare for 1990 Goodwill Games
- Fanfare for a Great Circle
- Fanfare in Song Form
- Four Phrases from Psalm 91
- Hymn of St. Francis
- Maine Vigils
- March of the Children's Guard
- Meditations on the Writings of Vasily Kandinsky
- Music for Percussion and Band
- Night City - Music for the Imaginary Film
- Rhythm
- Scenes from Childhood (Bukvich)
- Song Suite for Band
- Surprise, Pattern, Illusion: Prehistoric Cave Ceremonies
- Symphony No. 1, "In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945"
- Three Phrases from Yugoslav Folk Songs
- Threnos (Bukvich)
- Time Travel (1997)
- Unusual Behavior in Ceremonies Involving Drums
- Virgin and Child with St Anne, The
- Voodoo
- Xylophone Concerto
Additional Resources
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