Folgore's Months

From Wind Repertory Project
David Liptak

David Liptak


Subtitle: Four Songs for Soprano and Wind Ensemble


General Info

Year: 2010
Duration: c. 15:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $200.00   |   Score Only (print) - $50.00;


Movements

1. February
2. August
3. May
4. December (in memoriam John Thow)


Instrumentation

Full Score
Solo Soprano
C Piccolo/Flute III
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
C Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

  • Claves
  • Crotales
  • Glockenspiel
  • Gongs, tuned
  • Guiro
  • Lion's Roar
  • Maracas
  • Marimba
  • Ratchet
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Tam-Tam, large
  • Temple Blocks (5)
  • Tom-Tom (4)
  • Triangle
  • Tubular Bells
  • Vibraphone
  • Vibra-slap
  • Wind Chimes, bamboo
  • Xylophone


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

Liptak’s Folgore’s Months is dedicated to conductor Mark Davis Scatterday. The work presents four song settings of sonnets by 14th century Italian poet Folgore da San Gimignano that represent the four seasons of the year: February for the hunt, August for the warm Tuscan summer days, May for the joust, and December for the feast.

- Program Note from Eastman Wind Ensemble concert program, 2 November 2016


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Performances

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  • Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Mark Scatterday, conductor; Tony Arnold, soprano) – 12 December 2018
  • Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Mark Scatterday, conductor; Sara Nealley, soprano) – 2 November 2016


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