Sinfonia III: Hymns and Dances

Timothy Broege

Timothy Broege

Subtitle: Hymns and Dances

General Info

Year: 1972
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manhattan Beach Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $265.00   |   Score Only (print) - $30.00

Movements

1. Chaconne
2. Chorale
3. Canon
4. Rondeau
5. Polonaise

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II (II doubling Piccolo)
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II (optional)
B-flat Tenor Saxophone (optional)
E-flat Baritone Saxophone (optional)
C Trumpet I-II-III-IV
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV (alternative)
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion (3 players), including:

• Bass Drum
• Bells
• Chimes
• Crash Cymbals
• Finger Cymbals
• Maracas
• Marimba
• Police Whistle
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Tambourine
• Tom-Toms
• Triangle
• Whip
• Wood Block
• Xylophone

Players singing

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

My father's death in December of 1970 caused me to produce three works in which I paid tribute to his sweet soul and loving kindness. Chicago Songs for piano and Benedictus for mezzo soprano, tuba and piano were both composed in 1971. Sinfonia III completes the tribute and, being more playful in nature, balance the seriousness of the previous two pieces.

An earlier subtitle for the work was Quodlibet à 25. A quodlibet is usually defined as a succession of several tunes, often humorous, selected at the whim of the composer; and this work, in the form of a quodlibet, contains both original materials (the opening chaconne, the Stravinsky-ish chorale, and the dance tunes, and the ragtime of the rondeau), and quotations (Dowland's If My Complaints Can Passions Move, and the 19th-century gospel hymn I Love to Tell the Story, words by Catherine Hankey, tune by William G. Fischer), which represent the kinds of music that appealed to my gather. For many years he served as superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School in Belmar, New Jersey, and I Love to Tell the Story was one of his favorite hymns.

There are in Sinfonia III both light and shadow, both humor and seriousness, in an attempt to depict in sound, as much as I was able to do in the summer of 1972, something of the nature of this man who showered so much love upon his wife and four sons and enriched the lives of many people who knew him.

Sinfonia III was premiered at Madison, Wisconsin, in April of 1973. The work was composed during the summer of 1972 at Brielle, New Jersey. Thanks to the advocacy of such distinguished scholar as Bob Reynolds, Eugene Corporon, and Jack Delaney, Sinfonia III has received many performances during the years since its premiere and has indeed become, alongside Sinfonia V, one of my most popular wind ensemble pieces.

- Program Note by composer

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. University of Northern Colorado Wind Ensemble (Eugene Milgliaro Corporon, conductor)

State Ratings

• Michigan: Senior High AA

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Mt. San Antonio College (Walnut, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Jason Chevalier, conductor) – 15 March 2006 (CBDNA 2006 Western/Northwestern Division Conference, Reno, Nev.)

Works for Winds by this Composer

• America Verses (1997)
• Bartok Variations (as arranger) (2003)
• Blue Alien Accumulation (2003)
• Blue Goose Rag (as arranger) (1916/1986)
• Burlesco for Band (2006)
• Charlotte Doyle's Voyage
• The Child and the Kings (1995)
• Children and Gentlemen (as arranger) (2010)
• Climbing Eagle Mountain (2009)
• Concert Piece for Trumpet and Band
• Concerto for Marimba
• Deep River (as arranger) (2006)
• Dreams and Fancies (1988)
• Dreams of the Blue River (2009)
• El Jardin de Esperanza (2008)
• Enumeration of the Actual
• Fable and Folk Tale (2005)
• Falling Water (2015)
• Forest Green (as arranger) (2007)
• Four Breton Dances (2007)
• Four in One (2015)
• Geneva (2006)
• Geography of the Dream (2001)
• Green Passacaglia (2005)
• Greensleeves (as arranger)
• Grizzly Bear Rag (1994)
• The Headless Horseman (1973/1980)
• Jody
• Kum Ba Yah (2004)
• Mysterian Landscapes (2001)
• No Sun, No Shadow, Elegy for Charles Mingus
• Old Welsh Reverie (2009)
• Partita for Band (2017)
• Peace Song (1990)
• Pilgrim Traveler (2005)
• Prelude and Fughetta (2005)
• Procession and Torch Dance (1999)
• Rhythm Games: The Waukesha Rondo (2010)
• Rhythm Machine (1986)
• Scale Plus Line (2009)
• Seneca Variations (2015)
• Serenade
• Serenata
• Sinfonia III: Hymns and Dances (1972/2009)
• Sinfonia IV: Suite for Winds and Percussion
• Sinfonia V: Symphonia Sacra et Profana (1990)
• Sinfonia VI: The Four Elements (1982)
• Sinfonia XII: Southern Heart, Sacred Harp
• Sinfonia XIII: Storm Variations
• Sinfonia XIV: Three Canzonas
• Sinfonia XV: Ursa Major
• Sinfonia XVI: Transcendental Vienna (1995)
• Sinfonia XVII: The Four Winds
• Sinfonia XVIII: Aurora (2009)
• Sinfonia XIX: Preludes and Grounds
• Sinfonia XXI (2000)
• Slow March with Celebration
• Sonata for Wind Band (1994)
• Song and Variations (2001)
• Southern Suite
• Streets and Inroads (1975/1980/1996)
• Surfboard Blues
• The Tango Disappearing (2010)
• Theme and Variations (1995)
• Three Pieces for American Band, Set I (1974)
• Three Pieces for American Band, Set II (1982)
• Three Preludes (as arranger)
• Three Scenes (2010)
• Toccata for Band (2015)
• Train Heading West and Other Outdoor Scenes (1998)
• The Water Is Wide, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
• Wicked Story (2008)
• Yuletide Dances

Resources

• Broege, T. (2009). Sinfonia III: Hymns and Dances: For Concert Band [score]. Manhattan Beach Music: Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Perusal score
• Timothy Broege website Accessed 15 September 2022