Dream Forest
Subtitle: Woodwind Septet and Percussion
General Info
Year: 2014 / 2017
Duration: c. 5:10
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Brain Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $38.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
Percussion, including:
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tom-tom
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
When lost in the forest, we can be overwhelmed by its mysterious atmosphere. Domineering trees, dense atmosphere, whispering voices of birds...
Wandering through such a forest in a dream, even more strange things will happen. Things appear and then vanish, a sense of time is lost or confused ... but the calm of the forest in such a dream can also satisfy…. Such stories, the development of musical motifs, the progression of mysterious chords, etc. were created by members of the NAKAMURA Dai-ichi Junior High School Band.
It consists of triple and duple meter dances, a mystical sounding middle section, a recapitulation of the previous two-beat dance, and a coda.
We would appreciate you unfolding this vivid musical world like a picture book, enjoying the chain of melodies and the changing sound color.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by Nakamura Dai-Ichi Junior High School Band, Soma City, Fukushima.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Washington (Seattle) Symphonic Band (Shaun Day, conductor) - 9 December 2021
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) University Wind Ensemble (David Roush, conductor) - 25 March 2021
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Concert Band Chamber Winds (Giovani Briguente, conductor) – 3 October 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Crescent Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2010/2013)
- Pastorale Printemps (Flex instrumentation) (2000/2015)
- The Ritual of the Dawn (Flex instrumentation) (2012/2014)
- Sakura Song (Flex instrumentation) (1996/2015/2018)
All Wind Works
- Avenue Divertimento
- Chanson le Ciel
- Crescent Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2010/2013)
- Dancing in the Wind (2004)
- Douchu Rhapsody (2001)
- Dream Forest (2014/2017)
- Hokusai Impressions (2003)
- Jingle Bells in Swing
- Jubilee Fanfare (2011)
- Ka-Gu-Ra for Band (1999)
- Love Pop Soul (2007)
- Lyric of the Red Maple (1997)
- Pastorale Printemps (Flex instrumentation) (2000/2015)
- Poem of Spring
- The Ritual of the Dawn (Flex instrumentation) (2012/2014)
- Sakura Song (1996/2011/2015)
- Sakura Song (Flex instrumentation) (1996/2015/2018)
- Suite Romanesque (2000)
- Symphonic Dances (2010)
Resources
- Fukuda, Y. (2017). Yume no mori ni = Dream Forest : Kanda hachijuso [score]. Duren: Hiroshima, Japan.
- Perusal score