Triumphal March from Aida

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi (arrangement by Evžen Zámečník)

General Info

Year: 1871 / 1983
Duration: c. 2:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alliance Publications
Cost: Score & Parts - $35.00   

Instrumentation

Full Score
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II-III
French Horn I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Baritone I-II
Tuba
Percussion I-II-II

• Bass Drum
• Cymbals (2 crash)

Errata

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Program Notes

Triumphal March from Verdi's opera, Aida has been arranged by Evžen Zámečník to lend humor to life. Humor has always played a serious role in classical music. We can look at the music of Haydn, Mozart, P.D.Q. Bach, perhaps all of the great masters, and we find a work or two, if not more, that employ humor as the aesthetic. Various books have been written on "the humor of music". What would life be without humor? Certainly it is a "counterbalance"!

This work, written in 1983, when the political situation in then-Czechoslovakia was a bit grim, musical humor did much to lift the spirits of the people. This publisher, as a brass performer himself, considers this work to be a "gem" crafted by the genius of Evžen Zámečník, who as a most serious classical musician/composer/conductor, realized the need for "gamery".

Parody is an art in the hands of a master artist. Musicians love to poke fun at themselves, including the established repertoire of other composers. We dare to laugh at the pompous figure, the classical musician, only as a musician can. To hear old favorites "turned upside down and inside out", as is the case with the Triumphal March from Aida, provides an irresistible delight. The wonderful mimicry of exchanging phrases in different keys and rhythms is deliciously funny. Elements of the musical "slapstick" appear in the percussion, all giving way to a grand time.

Program Note by Joel Blahnik

Commercial Discography

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Recent Performances

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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer

• Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Rogers)
• Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Odom)
• Triumphal March from Aida (arr. Evžen Zámečník)

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