Meditation (Schuller)
From Wind Repertory Project
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General Info
Year: 1963
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Associated Music Publishers, Inc.
Cost: Score & Parts - $95.00 | Score Only - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II-III-IV (4th - Alto Flute (ad lib))
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Eb Alto Clarinet I-II
Bb Bass Clarinet I-II
Bb Contrabass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Cornet (in Bb) I-II-III
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Cymbals ((3) suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-tam)
- Timpani
- Triangle
Errata
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Program Notes
The main characteristics of this work were pre-determined by the terms and implications of the commission: a piece of "restful" music playable by high school bands. I decided that I would devote much of the work to exploration of individual and mass sonorities available in the band. Thus, the multiple divisi of the clarinets, the considerable use of the low-register members of the clarinet family, the juxtaposition of various brass sonorities throughout the piece, and in general, the exploitation of the lyric quality of wind instruments.
Twelve-tone organization in this work is relatively simple, being limited to the use of one row, or set form, at a time. Thus, the prime form is represented in the first twelve pitches heard in the composition. The inversion of the row is used next, followed by its retrograde and retrograde inversion. This four-part pattern is continued throughout the other eleven transpositions of the set.
Program Note by Gunther Schuller
Commercial Discography
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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
- Blue Dawn Into White Heat
- Bright and Sassy
- Diptych for Brass Quintet and Concert Band
- Double Quintet for Wind and Brass Quintets
- Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik
- Fanfare for St Louis
- Jumpin' in the Future
- Lines and Contrasts
- Nature's Way
- On Winged Flight
- Refrains
- Song and Dance
- Study in Textures
- Symphony No. 3, "In Praise of Winds"
- Symphony for Brass and Percussion
- Tear Drop
- Transformation
- Tre Invenzioni for Chamber Ensembles
Additional Resources
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