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Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places
General Info
Year: 1965
Duration: c. 11:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: CF Peters
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental | Study Score - $13.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Trumpet in Bb
Flutes I-II-III
Oboes I-II
English Horn
B-flat Soprano Clarinets I-II
Bass Clarinet
Bassoons I-II
Contrabassoon
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (2 players) including:
- Bass Drum
- Tam-Tam
- Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The work begins in 5/4 meter with the juxtaposition of woodwind chords with the solo trumpet playing a descending line of whole note, quarter note, whole note. The first expansion of the melodic material appears in the third measure of rehearsal 1. At rehearsal 2 an aleatoric passage suddenly appears fortissimo for a minute duration, which contains patterns of sixteenth notes in most of the winds with glissandos in the trombones and rolls in the percussion; this passage over the course of a minute diminuendos into the glissandos of the trombones which close the movement. The second movement is in 2/4 meter with alternating patterns of eight notes between the solo trumpet and woodwinds. Slowly these patterns evolve with the addition of sixteenth notes. Near the end of the work the rhythms in the solo voice include dotted eighth sixteenth figures as well as pairs of descending thirty-second notes.
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra (Richard Auldon Clark, conductor and Christopher Gekker, trumpet)
- Audio CD: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra (Keith Brion, conductor and John Wallace, trumpet)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op. 211
- Glory to God, Op. 124
- Hymn to Yerevan, Op. 83
- King Vahaken: Is There Survival?, Op. 59
- Mountains and Rivers Without End, Op. 225
- Prayer of St. Gregory (1946/1952/1972/2012)
- Requiem and Resurrection, Op. 224 (1969)
- Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places
- Sharagan and Fugue (arr. Huelsmann) (1950/2008)
- Suite for Band, Op. 15 (1948)
- Symphony No. 4, Op. 165 (1958)
- Symphony No. 7, "Nanga Parvat," Op. 178 (1959)
- Symphony No. 14, "Ararat," Op. 194 (1961)
- Symphony No. 17, Symphony for "Metal Orchestra," Op. 203 (1963)
- Symphony No. 20, "Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain," Op. 223 (1969)
- Symphony No. 23 (1972)
- Symphony No. 29 (1977)
- Symphony No. 53, "Star Dawn" (1983)
- Tapor No. 1 (1968)
- Tower Music Op. 129
Resources
- Hovhaness, A. (1965). Return and rebuild the desolate places [score]. New York: C.F. Peters