Agua Nocturna
Subtitle: For Chamber Wind Ensemble and Percussion Quartet
General Info
Year: 2010 /2012
Duration: c. 11:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bluejay Way Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $200.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II (II doubles Bass Clarinet)
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bongos
- Buckets of Water
- Chimes
- Conga
- Crotales
- Crystal Glasses
- Glockenspiel
- Gongs, medium & large
- Suspended Cymbals (varying sizes)
- Tibetan Temple Bowls
- Timbales
- Tom-Tom
- Triangles (2)
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Agua Nocturna or "Water Night" is based on a poem of the same name by the Spanish poet Octavio Paz. Within this poem is much imagery dealing with water, darkness, sleep, and dreams. I attempted to capture these qualities in this piece through the use of improvisation, spatial elements, and some extended technique (including trumpets played into buckets of water). Agua Noctuna features a percussion quartet which is given instructions to improvise using various instruments throughout the piece.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Agua Nocturna (2010)
- And Can It Be (2009)
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- Burning Music (2011)
- Chamber Concerto No. 1 (2012)
- Concertino Caboclo (2012)
- Dancefares (2016)
- Deep Calls to Deep (2016)
- The Exultant Heart (2016)
- Ford's Machine (2011)
- The Grand Processional of Our Reptilian Overlords (2019)
- He Who Would Valiant Be (2010)
- Heavy Weather (2012)
- I Know Moonrise (2019)
- If I Am to Leave... See: Symphony No. 1
- In Light, Accessible... (2015)
- The King of Love, My Shepherd Is (2004)
- Last Dances of Prospero (2009)
- Light Beyond Shadow (as arranger) (2020/2022)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby for Leaving (2021)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Lux Veritas,
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- The Mountain Whippoorwill (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Nuclear Family (2014)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Red Rover (2019)
- Rumpelstilzchen (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Resources
- Jess Langston Turner website Accessed 16 August 2020
- Perusal score