Across a Golden Sky
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This work is the second piece of the triptych Of Day and Night.
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General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 7:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: NYC Music Services
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $200.00 | Score Only (print) - $40.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Chimes
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Suspended Cymbal
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Across a Golden Sky is composer Quinn Mason’s second rhapsody. This work explores the hidden wonders of the magical period of daytime known as the “golden hour,” a phenomenon shortly before sunset where the sun is redder than the sky itself. Mason crafts gentle melodic fragments with undulating harmonic motion to create a pastoral work that, at its peak, emanates a brilliant and majestic landscape of vibrant color and pure beauty. Shimmers of sunlight are ever present with freely-flowing, aleatoric passages in the winds and bright, metallic percussive colors. As the sun slowly but surely disappears into the horizon, so too does Across a Golden Sky find a wondrous resolve in this mystical soundscape.
- Program Notes by Josh Trentadue
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Hendrix College (Conway, Ark.) Wind Ensemble (Quinn Mason, conductor) - 15 March 2022
- Otterbein University (Westerville, Ohio) Wind Ensemble (Michael S. Yonchak, conductor) - 12 October 2022
- California State University, San Bernardino, Symphonic Band (Nicholas Bratcher, conductor) – 17 November 2021
- Seattle (Wash.) Pacific University Wind Ensemble (Danny Helseth, conductor) – 15 November 2019
- Texas Woman's University (Denton) University Band (Melinda Najera, conductor) – 14 November 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Across a Golden Sky (2019). See also: Of Day and Night
- At Evening (2022)
- August Morn (2016-2017)
- Changes/Transitions (2020)
- Dallas Arts District Fanfare (2016)
- Faster (2016/2017)
- Journeys III
- A Joyous Trilogy (2019/2022)
- Scéne de Notre Dame (2022)
- The Sky Searching Within Itself (2022)
- Soul to Soul (2017/2019)
- Symphony No. 4 (2020)
Resources
- Perusal Score
- Quinn Mason website Accessed 14 November 2019