Salome

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Gareth Wood

Gareth Wood


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General Info

Year: 1993 / 2012
Duration: c. 14:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maecenas Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Bongos
  • Claves
  • Cowbell
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Side Drum
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Tambourine
  • Tam-Tam
  • Tenor Drum
  • Tom-Tom
  • Triangle
  • Wood Block


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

Salome was commissioned in 1993 to celebrate the centenary of the found of the Parc & Dare Brass Band with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council. This transcription for wind orchestra was completed by the composer in 2012.

-Program Note from score


Salome has come to symbolize the dangerous female seductress and is a story that has long been a subject for painters, authors and musicians including such distinguished names as Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss. Salome was the stepdaughter of King Herod and on the occasion of his birthday danced for him and his court “a dance of excessive inhibition” (the sequence Strauss depicted in his opera as ‘the dance of the seven veils’). The King was so pleased that he offered her anything she desired in return. Through Salome, Herodias, her mother, took the opportunity to obtain the head of John the Baptist against whom she held a grudge for declaring her marriage to Herod unlawful. Gareth Wood’s graphic, almost tactile score is so descriptive that he vividly brings to life the anguish, lust and murder found in this tortured and tormented story.

- Program Note by Jeff Girard, Midwest Sheet Music


Media

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

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  • Ohlone Wind Orchestra (Fremont, Calif.) (Tony Clements, conductor) – 14 July 2015 – WASBE Conference, San Jose, Calif.


Works for Winds by This Composer


Resources

  • Wood, G. [1992]. Salome: Rhapsody for Band [score]. Maecenas Music: Kenley, UK.