Aurora (Melillo)
Subtitle: Music from the Motion Picture
General Info
Year: 1998
Duration: c. 14:15
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stormworks
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $140.00
Movements (may be performed separately)
1. Between the Worlds – 5:55
2. Where Dreams Must Face the Night, Have You Ever Wondered? – 4:00
3. Of Valour in the Void – 4:20
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
English Horn
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
PAD Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Finger Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Piccolo Snare
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam, large
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Aurora was a 1998 science fiction movie, produced by Christopher Kulikowski, in which seven explorers in the 22nd century set out on a mission to Earth. This score is about survival in the face of physical and emotional deprivation.
- Program Note from IMDb
Media
- Audio CD: STORM Records - 1997
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) Symphonic Band (Brian Youngblood, conductor) – 24 April 2017
- Koninklijke Harmonie Sint-Laurentius (Oostmalle, Belgium) (Jeroen Van Ginneken, conductor) – 8 or 9 January 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
- America the Brave (1981)
- Aurora (1998)
- Ben Hur (as arranger) (1959/2008)
- Concerto for Violin and Band (2000)
- David (1995)
- The Defenders of Truefire! (1996)
- Escape from Plato's Cave (1993)
- Festival of Light! (1995)
- Finest Hour! (2000)
- Forbidden Fortress (1997)
- Giving!
- Godspeed! (1997)
- HAJJ (2000)
- Honor, Courage...Commitment (1996/1998)
- I Shall Hear in Heaven
- In a Cause Called "Glorious" (2001)
- In the Beginning (1992)
- Millennium (1997)
- O Come Holy Night! (1993)
- Once More Unto the Breach (2004)
- The Shoemaker (1999/2006)
- The Speech of Angels (1998)
- Stormworks
- Three Musical Haikus for Band (1984)
- Time to Take Back the Knights! (1999)
- Triumph at CHO-SIN! (1996)
- Under the Cover of Night ... Into the Light of Day! (1993)
- The Universe Below
- A Walk in Jurassic Park. See: In the Beginning
- Without Warning (1996)
- WU (2008)
Resources
- "Aurora." IMDb. Accessed 18 May 2017
- Stephen Melillo website - Accessed 18 May 2017