Canción de Antruejo

Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar

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Subtitle: Fantasía para Banda

General Info

Year: 1988 / 2014
Duration: c. 16:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – Contact Rosa Briceño for availability.

Instrumentation

Full concert band instrumentation plus D and C trumpets and extended percussion section.

(full instrumentation detail needed)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This is a masterwork for band composed by one of the most honored musicians in Venezuela, Maestro Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar. It is a fantasy, a free form based on eight themes that are overlapped and transformed using different processes like rhythmic augmentation and diminution, melody’s shifting and other methods. The harmony is developed from the note contents in each theme and processed through polytonal techniques.

"Antruejo" is a carnival occurring three days before Lent.

This Venezuelan masterpiece was premiered on September 7, 2014 by the Banda Sinfónica del Estado de São Paulo (BSESP), Brazil, with Rosa Briceño as guest conductor.

- Program Note by World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE)

Awards

Canción de Antruejo has been recommended as interesting, serious and distinctive music by members of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Banda Sinfónica del Estado de Sao Paulo (Rosa Briceño, conductor) – 7 September 2014

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Banda Sinfónica del Estado de São Paulo (Rosa Briceño, conductor) – 7 September 2014 –*Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Canción de Antruejo (1988)
Preámbulo (1983)

Resources

World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Accessed 30 July 2016