Job's Lament
General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 7:20
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Robert Tindle
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $250.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00 (restricted to consortium members until May 2023)
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Sizzle Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal (small)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Job’s Lament is a modern re-imagining of the Baroque lament and ground bass forms, drawing inspiration from the great Handel and Purcell laments. The title is a reference to the Biblical character Job, who loses everything he worked to build and everyone he loves in an overwhelming series of tragedies. As Job mourns his loss, he also wrestles with his faith, wanting to hope in divine goodness but faced constantly with his grief. This dialogue between hope and lament is pervasive in Job’s Lament, with moments of intense anguish as well as expectation and longing.
The opening section is vulnerable and sorrowful, reaching a suppressed climax before bringing the ground bass to the forefront. The second section contains the purest use of the ground bass form, with variations in canon above the descending bass line. This section gradually moves toward hope, leading into a tonally ambiguous transition from minor towards major. As momentum builds, the tension of the lament remains, but is met with a hopeful longing, leading into the climactic statement of the lament theme, framed in major but still fraught with tension, and a coda that brings back some of the tonal ambiguity of the earlier development. The piece ends with unresolved expectation, but still a note of hope.
- Program Note by composer
Commissioned by a consortium headed by Dr. Timothy Shade and the Wichita State Unviersity Wind Ensemble.
- Program Note from score
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Wichita (Kan.) State University Wind Ensemble (Timothy Shade, conductor) – 1 April 2022 (CBDNA 2022 Southwestern Conference, Waco, Tx.) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- At Sixty Miles an Hour (2018)
- Coronation Overture
- Festival
- In Flight
- Job's Lament (2022)
- Orbits
- Peace
- Requiem
- Sunrise
- Symphonic Cycle for Wind Ensemble
- Water Mirrors
- When Morning Gilds the Skies
Resources
- Perusal score
- Robert Tindle, personal correspondence, March 2022
- Robert Tindle website Accessed 28 March 2022