Myaku

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David Dzubay

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General Info

Year: 1999
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: ProNovaMusic
Cost: Score and Parts - $175.00   |   Score Only - $35.00


Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Trumpet (in C or Bb) I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I
Timpani
Harp (Opt.)
Piano (Opt.)
String Bass (Opt.)
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Cymbals (crash and small and large suspended)
  • Glockenspiel
  • Marimba
  • Snare Drum
  • Tom-toms (4)
  • Tubular Bells
  • Vibraphone
  • Xylphone

Errata

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Program Notes

This work was commissioned by the Musashino Academy of Music, Tokyo, Japan, in honor of their 70th anniversary, and is dedicated to Ray Cramer.

In April and May of 1999, Ray Cramer conducted the first performances of Myaku, with the Indiana University Wind Ensemble and the Musashino Academy of Music Wind Ensemble.

Opening with gentle waves of woodwind oscillations and building to powerfully repetitive arpeggios near the end, this fanfare for wind band takes two main ideas as themes: Pulse (Myaku, in Japanese), and the number 7 (from the 7 decades the Musashino Academy is celebrating). The pulses occur on many levels, often as groups of seven evenly spaced articulations, but also as rhythmic underpinnings. Working the number seven into the fanfare in various ways accounts for the tempo markings of 140, 160, and 77.

The principal musical motive is a four-note subset of a pentatonic scale: A, B, D, and E. There is also extensive use of diatonic clusters (built by stacking up transpositions of the above motive) and the ascending melodic minor scale.

Myaku is dedicated to Ray Cramer, Director of Bands at Indiana University and tireless supporter of contemporary music for wind band. I send the fanfare to the Musashino Academy with best wishes for another 7 decades of fine music making.


Program Note by David Dzubay


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