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Selections from "Garland Songs"
William Penn (orch. Smedley)
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Contents
General Info
Year: 1991
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
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Movements
1. Moggin’ Along – 8:50
2. Then It’s Spring (Part 1)
3. Spring Rains and Out of the Mayweed
4. Then It’s Spring (Part II)
5. A Cornfield in July and the River
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
William Penn’s A Cornfield in July and The River for Medium Voice and Twenty Five Performers, orchestrated in 1991 from the final song of his piano and voice cycle Garland Songs, represents a creative association of music and text. The author of the text, Hamlin Garland, was a Midwestern realist whose works are from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inspired by this union of music and text, the author of this paper orchestrated the remaining Garland Songs, employing the same spirit of text and music alliance.
- Program Note by Eric Smedley
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Indiana University (Bloomington) Symphonic Band (Eric M. Smedley, conductor; Zachary Coates, baritone) – 18 October 2016
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Fanfare for the AWS
- Mr Toad’s Wild Adventure
- Revelations of St. John the Divine, The
- Selections from "Garland Songs" (1990)
- Niagara, 1678 (1973)
Resources
- Albert William Penn, Wikipedia Accessed 19 September 2016
- Broughton, B. (1987). Tuba Concerto [score]. Kamlus: Miami, Fla.
- Eric M. Smedley. "William Penn’s Garland Songs: An Orchestration and Examination of Music and Text Association" (2010)
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "William Penn" Accessed 19 September 2016
