Memory, Prayer and Revival for Higashi Nihon
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 8:20
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bravo Music / Brain Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $300.00 (Rental)
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
F Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-VII, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chanchiki
- Chappa
- Chime
- Claves (optional)
- Crotal or Glockenspiel
- Flexatone
- Glockenspiel
- Hyoshigi
- Marimba
- Mokushou
- Okedo Daiko
- Ribbon Crasher
- Shime-Daiko
- Sleigh Bell
- Snare Drum
- Spring Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-tam
- Toms (4)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Vibraslap (optional)
- Whip
- Wind Chime
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
- Yagura-Daiko
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Many people died in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011, and Japan was deeply saddened.
In 2016, I was blessed with the opportunity to provide music at the request of Miyagi SOUBUN Private High School Joint Wind Band. Miyagi SOUBUN is an abbreviation of the All Japan Senior High School Cultural Festival in Miyagi. As a composer, I wanted to help, and I was involved in reconstruction assistance by connecting young musicians.
The first half represents the moment, the silence, the anger and the sadness, when the earthquake and tsunami destroyed everything. The middle part represents a bell of requiem, a chorale, and a wish for reconstruction like the morning sun shining on the surface of the sea. The final scene ends with a lively festival (Japanese music) aiming for a peaceful future, with the hope that the people will live a fruitful life and work together to become one.
On August 4, 2017, Miyagi SOUBUN Private High School Joint Wind Band premiered Memory, Prayer and Revival for Higashi Nihon at the All Japan Senior High School Cultural Festival in Miyagi. It was a work that I composed with all my heart, and I was moved by the music that more than 100 members made together, and I was full of tears. I will never forget that the heartfelt message of the performers reached the hearts of the audience through music.
- Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Miyagi SOUBUN Private High School Joint Wind Band - 4 August 2017 (All Japan Senior High School Cultural Festival (Miyagi)) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Published only
Adaptable Music
- A Beautiful Day (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Makalish Sophia (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Makam Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2012)
- Tango Impressions (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Flex instrumentation) (1807/2013)
All Wind Works
- Amenominakanushi (2017)
- At Meditation for Four Percussionists (2011)
- At Night when Beautiful Star Falls (2011)
- At Night when Beautiful Star Falls 2 (2014)
- Banda Dramatico (2018)
- Barbaresque (2019)
- A Beautiful Day (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Calling from Jesus Christ (2016)
- Exoticism (2014)
- Farandole from L'Arlésienne Suite No.2 (as arranger) (2014)
- The Fragment of J (2012)
- Gryphon’s Prayer (2014)
- Hiroshima Toyo Carp Support Songs (as arranger) (2016)
- Itsuka-no-sato, Iizuka (2015)
- The Knight of the Sky (2013)
- Konohananosakuya-hime, Sakura Princes (Larger Version) (2018)
- Konohananosakuya-hime, Sakura Princes (Smaller Version) (2018)
- The Light Shift of Orient (2013)
- Makalish Sophia (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Makam Dances (2015)
- Makam Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2012)
- Makam Passionato (2018)
- Makam Spirits (2018)
- Memory, Prayer and Revival for Higashi Nihon (2018)
- Miyabi (2012)
- Miyabi-Sakura (2016)
- Musica Ethnote (2018)
- Namikage (2017)
- On Beast (2016)
- Oriental Rhapsody (2013)
- Oriental Rhyth-mood (2014)
- The Path Tenma (2008)
- Percussive Brass (2015)
- Percussive Dance 2011 (2012)
- Percussive Space (2009)
- Percussive Wave (2013)
- Prominence II (2017)
- PULSACION (as arranger) (2012)
- Ran-ei, Hazy Mountain Atmosphere (2015)
- St. Elmo's Fire (2017)
- Sculpture in Brass (2012)
- Sea Goddess (Larger Version) (2013)
- Sea Goddess (Smaller Version) (2015)
- Shi-Shi Kagura (2010)
- Spirytus (2016)
- Strait Defense (2015)
- Tango Impressions (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Theme from "Howl's Moving Castle" (as arranger) (2004/2011)
- Tori no Iwa Kusu Fune no Kami (2012)
- Tracks from Mammoth Cave (2011)
- Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Flex instrumentation) (1807/2013)
- Viva Sugar Road March (2015)
- Xylophone Magic (2012)
- Yoikage (2019)