Coronation Scene
Modest Mussorgsky (arr. and adapt. John Cacavas)
Subtitle: From Boris Godunov
General Info
Year: 1874 / 2005
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: LudwigMasters Publications, through Keiser Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II (I doubling Piccolo)
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
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-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Gong
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Mussorgsky wrote two versions of Boris Godunov between 1868 and 1872, and the opera was rescored and revised by Rimsky-Korsakov after Mussorgsky's death. The drama is an intense and tragic story of a man tormented by his own mind. Boris has contrived the murder of the rightful heir to the throne and has proclaimed himself tsar. The coronation scene, one of the most brilliant and colorful scenes in the opera, takes place in the square fronting the Kremlin in Moscow. A great throng of people has gathered to hail Boris as their new tsar.
Boris appears in the middle of the coronation scene, and the ringing bells and shouting crowds falls silent. He is filled with a sense of doom, both for himself and his kingdom. He invokes God's blessing and asks the people to kneel in homage to the departed rulers of Russia. Once more they take up their cry of "Glory!" and the great bells of the cathedrals boom out as Boris proceeds to the royal apartments in the Kremlin.
- Program Note from Program Notes for Band
Respectfully dedicated to Thomas Lee, Conductor, and the UCLA Wind Ensemble.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Lincoln High School Symphonic Winds (Ray Cramer, conductor) - 2005
State Ratings
- Louisiana: III
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Franklin (Mass.) High School (Leighanne J. Rudsit, conductor) – Spring 2018
- Lincoln High School (Tallahassee, Fla.) Symphonic Winds (Ray Cramer, conductor) – 15 December 2005 (2005 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1874/ )
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1874/2012)
All Wind Works
- Baba Yaga/La Grande Porte de Kiev (arr. Van Grevenbroek). See: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Coronation Scene (arr. Cacavas) (1874/2005)
- Coronation Scene from "Boris Godunov" (tr. Leidzen) (1874/1936)
- Dawn on the Moscow River (arr. Kotovsky) (1874/2019?)
- Excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Patterson) (1874/2011)
- Gopak (orch. Lyadov; arr. Avignon) (1874-1880/1969)
- Gopak (arr. Van der Beek) (1874-1880/1995)
- Great Gate of Kiev (arr. Odom) (1874/)
- Marche Turque/In the Village (arr. Hilliard and Lake)
- Mussorgsky! (arr. Harnsberger) (2008)
- Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Gardner) (1867)
- Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Kellis and Schietroma) (1867)
- Night on Bald Mountain (scored Schaefer) (1867/1976/1990)
- Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Williams) (1867/1991)
- Night on Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov; tr. Hindsley) (1867/197-?)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Hautvast) (1874/2013)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Hindsley) (1874/1995)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel; tr. Lavender) (1874/2011)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Leidzen) (1874/1942)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Loest) (1874/2012)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1874/)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Patterson) (1874)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Saras) (1874)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (1874/2012)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (tr. Takahashi)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Van Grevenbroek) (1874/2008)
- Pictures at an Exhibition Finale (orch. Simpson; ed. Reed) (1874/2004)
- Procession of Princes and Priests (tr. Patterson) (1872/2001)
- Promenade (arr. Van Grevenbroek). See: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Triumphal March (arr. de Meij) (1872/2003)
- Triumphal March Capture of Kars (arr. Simpson)