Mutations from Bach

Samuel Barber

General Info

Year: 1968
Duration: c. 5:55
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: G Schirmer, Inc
Cost: Score & Parts - $25.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Tuba
Timpani

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Mutations from Bach is a short sequence of transformations of the plain-song Christe, du Lamm Gottes (Christ, Thou Lamb of God). It is first heard as harmonized by Joachim Decker (1604); then in the harmonization of J.S. Bach from Cantata No. 23. It is also heard in canon at the twelfth (i.e., the choral prelude No. 21 from Bach's Orgelbuchlein). A quotation of the recitative section Ach, gehe nich voruber from Bach's Cantata No. 23 appears next. Finally, the work concludes with a restatement of the old version of the chorale.

- Program Note from score

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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East Carolina University (Greenville) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (William Staub, conductor) - 19 April 2022
University of Miami (Fla.) Frost Wind Ensemble (Jack J. Hontz, conductor) - 22 November 2020
University of Cincinnati (Ohio) College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony (Karl Meyers, conductor) - 10 October 2020
University of Georgia (Athens) Hodgson Wind Symphony (Jonathan Poquette, conductor) – 15 April 2019
South Carolina Governor's School of the Arts Wind Ensemble – 12 March 2019
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Shawn Vondran, conductor) – 11 February 2018
University of Maryland (College Park) Wind Ensemble (Brian Coffill, conductor) – 6 December 2016

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adagio (arr. Linden) (1936/2006)
Adagio (arr. Warner) (1936/1997)
Adagio for Strings (arr. Wilkinson) (1936/2003)
Adagio for Young Concert Band (arr. Jennings) (1936/1991)
Adagio from "Adagio for Strings" (arr. Custer) (1936)
Andante and Tranquillo (arr. Saucedo) (1943/2009)
Commando March (1943)
Commando March (ed. Collinsworth) (1943/2009)
Commando March (arr. Curnow) (1943/1990)
Fantasy on a Theme by Samuel Barber (arr. Saucedo) (1931/2005)
First Essay (arr. Joseph Levey) (1937/1972)
Funeral March (1943)
Intermezzo (from “Vanessa") (arr. Beeler) (1962)
Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (tr. Singleton) (1949/2004)
Medea’s Dance of Vengeance, op 23a (arr. Hudson)
Mutations from Bach (1968)
Overture to “The School for Scandal” (arr. Hudson) (1941/1971
Second Essay (arr. Schneider) (2011)
Summer Music (1956)
Sure on This Shining Night (arr. Saucedo) (1938/2004)
Symphony in One Movement (tr. Duker) (1936/1970)

Resources

Heyman, Barbara B. (1992). Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 476.