For Precious Friends Hid in Death’s Dateless Night

Martin Mailman

Martin Mailman

This article is a stub. If you can help add information to it, please join the WRP and visit the FAQ (left sidebar) for information.

General Info

Year: 1988
Duration: c. 20:26
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ludwig Masters
Cost: Score and Parts - $195.00

Movements

1. Mournful Hymns Did Hush the Night - 6:40
2. Broken Loops of Buried Memories - 6:27
3. Which By and By Black Night Doth Take Away - 7:19

Instrumentation

(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

A major contribution (and ABA/Ostwald composition winner) from this respected composer, these three movements are inspired (and titled after stanzas of) William Shakespeare's sonnets. Calling for harp, piano, and active mallet percussion, the work covers a wide gamut of stylings, from delicate hymn, to motivic fragments (over a bass marimba ostinato), to the soaring, ethereal beauty of a solo soprano vocalise (reminding one of incredible Ennio Morricone moments) rising above an exciting, loud conclusion. An ambitious work but not beyond the reach of advanced bands/wind ensembles.

- Program Note from publisher

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: North Texas Wind Symphony (Teresa Maria Gomez, conductor) - 1997

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Alabama: Class AAs
• Louisiana: V
• South Carolina: VI
• Virginia: VI

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Alarums for Band, Op. 27 (1962)
  
• Alleluia for Chorus and Band, Op. 15 (1960)
  
• Associations
• Association No. 1 for Band, Op. 45 (1968)
  
• Bouquets (1991)
  
• Commencement March for Band, Op. 14 (1960)
  
• Concertino for Clarinet and Band, Op. 83 (1990)
  
• Concertino for Trumpet and Band, Op. 31 (1963)
  
• Concerto for Wind Orchestra (Variations), Op. 89 (1993)
  
• Decorations for Band, Op. 54 (1974)
  
• Exaltations, Op. 67 (1981)
  
• For Precious Friends Hid in Death’s Dateless Night, Op. 80 (1988)
  
• Four Miniatures for Band, Op. 19 (1960)
  
• Four Variations in Search for a Theme for Narrator and Band, Op. 36, (1965)
  
• From the Leaves of Grass for Narrator, Chorus, and Band, Op. 30b (1963)
  
• Geometrics No. 1 for Band, Op. 22 (1961)
  
• Geometrics No. 2. See: Geometrics in Sound
  
• Geometrics No. 3 for Band, Op. 37 (1965)
  
• Geometrics No. 4 for Band, Op. 43 (1968)
  
• Geometrics No. 5 for Band, Op. 58 (1976)
  
• Geometrics in Sound (1964)
• Jewel in the Crown, Op. 78 (1987)
  
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for Band, Narrators, and Solo Voice, Op. 56 (1975)
  
• Liturgical Music for Band, Op. 33 (1963)
  
• Night Vigil, Op. 66 (1980)
  
• Overture 1962
• Partita for Band, Op. 10 (1958)
  
• Pledges for Band, Op. 98(1998)
  
• Secular Litanies, Op. 90 (1993)
  
• Shouts, Hymns, and Praises for Band, Op. 52 (1972)
  
• Simple Ceremony: In Memoriam John Barnes Chance, Op. 53 (1973)
• The Whaleman's Chapel, from "Moby Dick"
• Toward the Second Century, Op. 82 (1989)
  

Resources

• Mailman, M.; Shakespeare, W. (1990). For Precious Friends Hid in Death's Dateless Night: Op. 80: For Symphonic Winds [score]. Ludwig Music: Cleveland, Ohio.
• Miles, Richard B. 2000. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 3. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 671-681.