Dia de los Muertos
Subtitle Day of the Dead
General Info
Year: 2001
Duration: c. 4:10
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: RBC Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.50
Instrumentation
Band 1:
- Full Score
- Flute I-II
- Oboe
- Bassoon
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Saxophone
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
- Horn in F I-II
- Trombone I-II
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Percussion, including:
- *Crotale (optional)
- *Gong
- *Tubular Bells
- *Vibraphone
Band 2:
- Full Score
- Flute
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone or B-flat Bass Clarinet
- B-flat Trumpet I-II
- Horn in F
- Trombone
- Tuba
- Percussion, including:
- *Bass Drum
- *Crash Cymbal
- *Marimba
- *Snare Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos or Día de los Muertos) is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days may be included depending on the locality. It largely originated in Mexico, where it is mostly observed, but also in other places, especially by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere. Although associated with the Western Christian Allhallowtide observances of All Hallow's Eve, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, it has a much less solemn tone and is portrayed as a holiday of joyful celebration rather than mourning. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pay respects and to remember friends and family members who have died. These celebrations can take a humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes about the departed.
Traditions connected with the holiday include honoring the deceased using calaveras and aztec marigold flowers known as cempazúchitl, building home altars called ofrendas with the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these items as gifts for the deceased. The celebration is not solely focused on the dead, as it is also common to give gifts to friends such as candy sugar skulls, to share traditional pan de muerto with family and friends, and to write light-hearted and often irreverent verses in the form of mock epitaphs dedicated to living friends and acquaintances, a literary form known as calaveras literarias.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Moores School of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Audio CD: Lake Highlands High School Wind Symphony (Michael Mamminga, conductor) – 2001
- Audio CD: Moores School of Music Symphonic Winds - 2008
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Lake Highlands High School (Richardson, Tx.) Wind Symphony (Michael Mamminga, conductor) – 21 December 2001 (2001 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by this Composer
- The Alchemist (2022)
- Aluxes
- American Songs
- and fragments of a dream... (2010)
- Ballade for Horn and Band (2010)
- Canciones y Sones de Mexico (2008)
- Chateau Le Bombadier Marche
- Christmas in The Netherlands (1999)
- Dance Poem (2006)
- David's Lyre
- Dia de los Muertos (2001)
- …dim points of lights…
- Down Longford Way & Shenandoah (as transcriber) (1990)
- Shenandoah (as arranger) (1907/1990)
- Elegy: Sixteen Minutes from Home (2005)
- Enigmatic Variations (2002)
- Experience the Adventure (2007)
- Fanfare for a Great Hall (2010)
- Fanfare, Elegy and Dance
- Four Dutch Hymns (1991)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (2006)
- Hanszen Parish Overture
- The Hanukkah Gift (1999)
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite No. 2 (2005)
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite No. 3 (2003)
- Hebrew Rhapsody (2003)
- Holliday Festival Overture (2002)
- Huapango! (as transcriber) (1941/1986)
- In Memory of a Summer Day
- In the Land of Green Lightning (2010)
- Introduction and Allegro (2015)
- A Lark's Song in the Clear Air (2012)
- March 104 (1998)
- Masada (2007)
- The Midnight Culmination of Sirius
- Prelude and Dance (2000)
- Prelude from "49th Parallel" (as transcriber) (1941/1960/1987/2002)
- The Rabbit and the Coyote (2005)
- Scotch Strathspey and Reel (as arranger) (1901-11/1982)
- Shenandoah. See: Down Longford Way & Shenandoah
- Symphony for Winds and Percussion (1997)
- Tower of The Winds (2009)
- Tuqa Gloria Emmeles
- West Point Songs (1981)
- The Widow's Party (as arranger) (1923/1929/2009)
Resources
- Day of the Dead. Wikipedia Accessed 28 June 2022
- Leroy Osmon website – Accessed 28 June 2022