Sun Just Touched the Morning, The
General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Grand Mesa Music Publishers - Official Website
Cost: Score and Parts - $50.00 | Score - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Tubular Bells (Chimes)
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Sun Just Touched the Morning was composed in December 2005 for the Bloomfield Youth Band. The piece takes its title from the first line of a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). In the poem, Dickinson personifies morning and the sun, the latter (referred to as "king" in the third stanza) ending the reign of the former at dawn:
The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.
She felt herself supremer,—
A raised, ethereal thing;
Henceforth for her what holiday!
Meanwhile, her wheeling king
Trailed slow along the orchards
His haughty, spangled hems,
Leaving a new necessity,—
The want of diadems!
The morning fluttered, staggered,
Felt feebly for her crown,—
Her unanointed forehead
Henceforth her only one.
-Program Note by the Composer
Media
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State Ratings
- Texas: III. Complete
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Rutgers University Alumni Wind Symphony (Patrick Burns, conductor) - 21 May 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Always We Begin Again (2010)
- Amazing Grace
- Ancient Dialogue (2006)
- Anthem (Theme and Variations on the National Anthem of Poland) (2011)
- As I Gaze from the High Mountain (2010)
- Bal Masque (as arranger) (1893/)
- Be Thou My Vision
- Benediction (2021)
- Cadet Parade (2007)
- Celebration Fanfare
- Cortege (as arranger)
- Count Not the Hours
- Dances on the Golden Shore
- Desert Caravan
- Diamond Variations
- Electric City Celebration (2013)
- Energies: Suite for Band
- Enchanted Night
- Fairest Morning (2020)
- Fantasy on "Salve Regina" (2011)
- Fawn Grove Fanfare (2022)
- Flight of Years (2000)
- Go and Ask My Mother (as arranger) (1848/)
- Gothic Dance (2008)
- Harford Rhapsody
- The Hawk's Revenge (2012)
- Hometown (2002)
- I loved well those cities...
- An Impulse to Soar (2012)
- Joyful Spirit March (2008)
- Legend of the Omaha (2011)
- Let the Future Begin
- Lighted Streets on Quiet Nights
- Music for a Celebration (2001)
- My Love Is Fairer than Any (2019)
- Noble Vision (2021)
- North Country March
- Oasis (2017)
- Oceanport Overture
- Overture on Canadian Folk Songs (2005)
- Panis Angelicus (as arranger) (1872/)
- Perfect Trip (2006)
- A Prayer (2016)
- Prelude and Toccata (2019)
- Prelude in F Minor (as arranger) (1911/2011
- Pride and Purpose (2007)
- Regal Ceremony (2006)
- Rhapsody for Solo Clarinet and Band (2015)
- 'Round the Bend (2023)
- Ryukyu-Bushi (2012)
- Seize the Day! (Carpe Diem) (2010)
- Sempre Avanti (2008)
- Sennet (2018)
- Simmering Chesapeake
- Simple Song
- Soundtrack
- Spirit Unseen
- Splendid Star (2011)
- Spring Song (as arranger)
- The Sun Just Touched the Morning (2010)
- Suspended Animation (2007)
- Symphonic Dance (2002)
- There Will Come Soft Rains (2016)
- Three Prayers (2013)
- Time: A River of Passing Events (2009)
- Toccata (2008)
- Transformed Spring (2010)
- The Valedictory of Saint Paul
- Victory Lap
- Vignettes (2017)
- With Every Step, a Memory
- Zephyrus: God of the West Wind (2009)