Chaconne (In Memoriam...)
General Info
Year: 1995
Duration: c. 9:15
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: LudwigMasters Publications, through Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III (all div. a2)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-VI
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Piano
Synthesizer
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes (extended high range required (high G5))
- Crotales (both octaves)
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba (2 players)
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-tam
- Tenor Drum
- Vibraphone (with motor)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The piece, elegiac in nature, is in three-part form built on an eight-measure chord progression that is repeated over and over as it supports a series of variations. The middle section features quotes from the Brahms chorale prelude, O Welt, ich muss dich lassen (Oh world, I must now leave). The theme of this chorale is also woven into the textures of the final section. The final section, a huge benediction, is very dark-composed of overlapping descending passages in the aeolian mode.
Through this texture, the trumpets project each choral phrase: musical shafts of light and hope.
Chaconne (In Memoriam...) was written in fulfillment of a commission from the American Bandmasters Association.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Dallas Wind Symphony (Jerry Junkin, conductor)
- Audio CD: Dallas Wind Symphony (Jerry Junkin, conductor) – 1996
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Aspen Jubilee (1988)
- Brevard Fanfare (1986)
- Chaconne (In Memoriam...) (1994/1995)
- Concerto for Piano & Symphonic Band (1948)
- Courtly Airs and Dances (1995)
- Danza Capriccio (1991/2013)
- Epiphanies (1994)
- Fanfare for a Celebration (1982/1986)
- Fanfare for Kennedy Center (1995/2008)
- Fanfare for the Hour of Sunrise (1991)
- Fanfare for the New Millennium (1999)
- Lauds (Praise High Day) (1991)
- Mayflower Overture (1958/1997)
- Medieval Suite (1982-2019)
- Homage to Leonin (1983)
- Homage to Perotin (1982)
- Homage to Landini (2019)
- Homage to Machaut (1983)
- Morning Alleluias for the Winter Solstice (1989/1991)
- Night Song (1998)
- Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) (1993)
- Pastorale (2006)
- Pebble Beach Sojourn (1983/1994)
- Resonances I (1990)
- Rocky Point Holiday (1969)
- Savannah River Holiday (1953/1973)
- Sonoran Desert Holiday (1995)
- Te Deum Laudamus (1988/1990)
- To the Airborne (1992/1993)
Resources
- Nelson, R. (1995). Chaconne: (In Memoriam--): For Symphonic Band [score]. Ludwig Music: Cleveland, Ohio.
- Ron Nelson website Accessed 13 October 2022