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La Tregenda (arr Beck)
Giacomo Puccini (arr. Brian Beck)
Subtitle: Witches' Dance from La Villi
Contents
General Info
Year: 1883 / 2013
Duration: C. 2:50
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00; (digital) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Originally written as a one-act opera, Puccini was asked by the publisher Ricordi to expand it to a full opera. It premiered in Hamburg in 1892 with Gustav Mahler on the podium. Poet Heinrich Heine wrote this description of the fairy figures called La Villi (The Willis): “Willis are betrothed maidens who died before their weddings. These poor creatures cannot find rest in their graves. In their dead hearts, in their dead feet, the passion for dancing lives on, a passion that they could not satisfy in their lifetime. At midnight they appear in groups along country lanes. Woe betide the young man that encounters them! He will be forced to dance with them, and he must dance until he drops dead!”
Puccini wrote La Tregenda as one of two movements to be used as symphonic intermezzi between the two acts of the opera. The legend of La Villi is explained: When a woman dies of a broken heart, the fairies force the heartbreaker to dance himself to death.
- Program Note from Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Louisiana: IV
- South Carolina: IV
- Texas: IV. Complete
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Computech Middle School (Fresno, Calif.) Wind Band (Marco Mellone, conductor) - 21 April 2017 (2017 San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) Concert Band Invitational)
- Edison-Computech Middle School (Fresno Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Marco Mellone, conductor) - 25 March 2017 (2017 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- Arkansas Winds Community Concert Band (Fayetteville) (Michael Ferguson, conductor) – 25 February 2017
- Marcus High School (Flower Mound, Tex.) Symphonic Band – 26 May 2016
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Angelo del Cielo (arr. de Meij)
- Ch'ella Mi Creda
- Donde Lieta from "La Bohème (arr. Kreines) (1896)
- Edgar (arr. de Meij) (1889/2008)
- Fantasy on "Madama Butterfly" (arr. Goto) (1904/2000)
- Gianni Schicchi (arr. Suzuki) (1918/)
- Highlights from Act 1, "Tosca" (arr. Goto) (1900/2014)
- La Bohème (arr. Stebbing) (1896/1948)
- La Bohème (arr. Dawson) (1896/1992)
- La Fanciulla del West (arr. de Meij) (1910/2008)
- La Tregenda (arr. Beck) (1883/2012)
- La Tregenda (arr. Foster)
- Nessun Dorma (arr. Bocook) (1926/2003)
- Nessun Dorma (arr. Cray)
- Nessun Dorma (arr. Rossi) (1926/2008)
- Nessum Dorma (arr. Turrin) (1926/2010)
- Nessun Dorma (arr Vinson) (arr. Vinson) (1926)
- Nessun Dorma (arr. Williams) (1926/2000)
- Nessun Dorma (tr. Patterson) (1926)
- Nessun Dorma from "Turandot" (arr. Rickard) (1926)
- O Mio Babbino Caro (arr Vinson)
- O Mio Babbino Caro (Balmages)
- O Mio Babbino Caro from "Gianni Schicchi" (arr. Kondo) (1918/2010)
- O Mio Babbino Caro from "Gianni Schicchi" (arr. Kreines) (1918)
- Puccini's Arias Fantasy (arr. Yamizato) (2012)
- Quando me’n vo (arr. McLain) (1896/2011)
- Scenes from "La Bohème" (arr. Hanna) (1896/)
- Scossa Elettrica (arr. Yates) (2001)
- Te Deum (tr. de Meij) (1900/2010)
- Tosca Fantasy (arr. Gee) (1900)
- Tosca Fantasy (arr. Hermann) (1900/1972)
- Turandot (arr. Goto) (2007)
- Two Scenes from "Tosca" (arr. Hanna) (1900/)
- Vogliatemi Bene from "Madama Butterfly" (arr. Odom) (1904)
- Witches' Sabbath, The (arr. de Meij) (1892/2010)
