Sun Just Touched the Morning, The

From Wind Repertory Project
Patrick J. Burns

Patrick Burns


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


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State Ratings

  • Texas: III. Complete


Performances

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  • Rutgers University Alumni Wind Symphony (Patrick Burns, conductor) - 21 May 2011


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