Capriccio (arr Noble)

Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst (arr. Paul Noble)

General Info

Year: 1932 / 1967 / 2018
Duration: c. 5:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Noble Music Publications through bandmusicpdf.net
Cost: Score and Partandmusicpdf.nets (print) - $85.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass 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-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano/Celesta
Harp
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bass Drum
• Chimes
• Crash Cymbals
• Glockenspiel
• Marimba
• Snare Drum
• Triangle

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Holst wrote this work in the spring of 1932, while he was guest lecturer in composition at Harvard University. He had been asked by Nathaniel Shilkret to write "a short radio piece, no longer than five or six minutes" for a "composers'" series on folk music themes. Holst wrote to me on 13 May 1932, saying: "On May 1 I started sketching a piece for Shilkret's Radio jazz band in New York. I finished the sketch on the 4th and the full score on the 8th … Shilkret wanted something n American airs, but I've left them out because I prefer my own so he may reject the thing." Shilkret was enthusiastic about the piece, but he was unable to use it for his series. "I hate to give it up," he told the composer, "but I cannot play it because it is not based on a definite English or American folk theme."

Holst never revised his hurriedly-written work, probably because he had too many other things to write during the remaining two years fofhis life, when he was having to spent a good deal of his time in hospital. The autograph manuscript of his original full score is in the British Library, MS Add. 47833. The work has no name. Holst refers to it as his Jazz band piece" or as "Mr. Shilkret's Maggot." The score needed editing. Here were gaps and patches with incomplete dynamics and phrase marks. I made the version for orchestra and named it Capriccio in spite of the viola's (now saxophone's) expressive opening, because from the moment of the marimba's first animated remark there can be no doubt about the mood of the music.

- Program Note by arranger, excerpted from introduction by Imagen Holst

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. MIDI Realization

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Wind Symphony (Bruce Moss, conductor) – 4 May 2019 *Wind Arrangement Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Chaconne from "First Suite in Eb" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1909/2016)
• Fantasia on the "Dargason" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1911/2013)
• Intermezzo (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1909/2017)
• Jupiter (arr. Deterling) (Flex instrumentation) (1916/2020)
• Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Adaptable Band) (arr. Fisher) (1916/2020)
• March (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1911/2010)
• March from "First Suite in Eb" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1909/2015)
• March from Second "Suite in F Major" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Fisher) (1911/2018)
• March from "First Suite in Eb" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1909/2015)
• Mars (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1916/2009)
• A Moorside March (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Wright; ed. M. Brand) (1928/2021)
• Songs from the "Second Suite" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1911/2012)
• Suite from "The Planets" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1916/2018)

All Wind Music

• Ave Maria (tr. Woodley) (1900)
• Bach's Fugue à la Gigue (as arranger; ed. Brand). See: Fugue à la Gigue
• Bach's Fugue à la Gigue (as arranger; ed. Mitchell) (1707/1928/2005)
• Brook Green Suite (tr. Curnow) (1933/2006)
• Capriccio (tr. Boyd) (1932/1967/1974)
• Capriccio (arr. Paul Noble) (1932/1967/2019)
• Chaconne from "First Suite in Eb" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1909/2016)
• Chorale from Jupiter (arr. James Curnow)
• Christmas Day (arr. Daehn) (1910/2011)
• Christmas Day (arr. Beringen) (1910/2010)
• Country Song (arr. Klein) (1906)
• Dance of the Spirits of Fire (trans. Harpham) (1918/1922/1971)
• Dirge for Two Veterans
• Fantasia on the "Dargason" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1911/2013)
• Fantasia on the "Dargason" (arr. Story) (1911/2000)
• First Suite in E-flat (1909/1921)
• First Suite in E-flat (ed. Matthews) (1909/1921/1984)
• First Suite in E-flat (ed. Ito) (1909/2011)
• First Suite in E-flat (arr. Longfield) (1909/2006)
• First Suite in E-flat for Military Band (ed. Fennell) (1909/2006)
• First Suite in E-flat Themes (arr. Sweeney). See: Themes from "First Suite in E-flat"
• A Fugal Concerto (arr. Brand) (1923/1993?)
• A Fugal Overture (arr. Noble) (1922/2014)
• A Fugal Overture (trans. Ponto) (1922)
• Fugue à la Gigue (as arranger; ed. Brand) (1707/1928/2008)
• Fugue à la Gigue (as arranger; ed. Mitchell). See: Bach's Fugue à la Gigue
• Gustav Holst Band Classics (arr. Edwards) (2020)
• Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo (1930)
• A Holst Hymn (arr. Smith) (1921/2022)
• A Holst Suite (trans. Thompson) (2018)
• Hymns from the Rig Veda (tr. Windram, ed. Mitchell) (1908/1917/2017)
• I Vow to Thee, My Country (setting Vaughan Williams; ed. Grechesky) (1921/1988)
• I Vow to Thee, My Country (arr. Knorr) (1921/2017)
• Illumination (arr. Gene Milford)
• In the Bleak Midwinter. See: Winter Suite
• Intermezzo (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1909/2017)
• Japanese Suite (adapt. Boyd) (1915/1982/1999)
• Jupiter (arr. Deterling) (Flex instrumentation) (1916/2020)
• Jupiter from "The Planets" (arr. Pay and Smith) (1916/1924)
• Jupiter from "The Planets" (arr. Branchfield) (1916/2014)
• Jupiter (arr. Brown) (1916)
• Jupiter (tr. Curnow) (1916/1990)
• Jupiter (arr Hurt) from "The Planets" (arr. Hurt) (1916)
• Jupiter (arr. Owens) (1916/2006)
• Jupiter Hymn (arr. de Meij) (1916/1921/1990)
• Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Adaptable Band) (arr. Fisher) (1916/2020)
• Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (tr. McAlister; ed. Reed) (1916/2003)
• March (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1911/2010)
• March from "First Suite for Military Band" (arr. Story) (2011)
• March from "First Suite in Eb" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1909/2015)
• March from Second "Suite in F Major" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Fisher) (1911/2018)
• Marching Song (1906/1930)
• Marching Song (arr. Moss) (1906/2006)
• Marching Song (ed. Reynish) (1906/1983)
• March on Three Folk Tunes (ed. Binney) (c. 1913/2005)
• Mars (arr. Bocook) (1916/1998)
• Mars (arr. Owens) (1916/2009)
• Mars from "The Planets" (tr. Pay and Smith) (1916/1924)
• Mars, from "The Planets" (tr. Singleton) (1916/2001)
• Mars (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1916/2009)
• Midwinter (arr. Phillips) (2012)
• Moorside March (arr. Jacob) (1928/1960)
• A Moorside March (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Wright; ed. M. Brand) (1928/2021)
• A Moorside Suite (arr. Wright)
• Morris Dance Tunes (arr. Wagner) (1910/2010)
• On This Day the Earth Shall Ring (arr. Smith) (2001)
• The Perfect Fool (arr. Short) (1922/2005)
• The Planets (tr. Inagaki) (1916)
• The Planets (tr. Janssen) (1916/2017)
• The Planets (tr. Patterson) (1916/1998)
• The Planets (tr. Schrijvers) (1916/2005)
• The Planets (tr. Vives) (1916/2007?)
• The Planets (tr. Smith) (1916/1921)
• Scherzo (tr. Patterson) (1933/2021)
• Second Suite in F (ed. Fennell; score assembly Schissel) (1911/2006)
• Second Suite in F (arr. Johnston) (1911/2011)
• Second Suite in F (ed. Matthews) (1911)
• Second Suite in F (ed. Neumann) (1911)
• Second Suite in F (ed. Ito) (1911/1922/2012)
• Second Suite in F (adapt. Longfield) (1911/2007)
• Second Suite in f minor / F Major (ed. Hauswirth and Schmidt) (1911/2014)
• A Somerset Rhapsody (tr. Clare Grundman) (1906/1927/1980)
• The Song of the Blacksmith (arr. Loest) (1911/2011)
• Songs from the "Second Suite" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1911/2012)
• Songs of the West (arr. James Curnow) (1907/1986)
• St. Paul's Suite (arr. Sparke) (1912-1913/2017)
• Suite from "The Planets" (arr. Custer) (1916/1991)
• Suite from "The Planets" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1916/2018)
• Themes from "First Suite in E-flat" (arr. Sweeney) (1909/2006)
• Three Folk Tunes (arr. Wagner) (c. 1913/2007)
• Two Songs Without Words (arr. Erickson) (1906/1996)
• Uranus (tr. Curnow) (1916/1991)
• Winter Suite
  • On This Day Earth Shall Ring (arr. Smith) (1924/2001)
  • In the Bleak Midwinter (arr. Bullock) (1906/1996)
  • In the Bleak Midwinter (arr. Giroux) (1906/2018)
  • In the Bleak Midwinter (arr. Smith) (1906/1992)
  • Old Brenton Carol (arr. Smith) (1910/2001)

Resources

• List of Compositions by Gustav Holst. Wikipedia.