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Apocalyptica
Subtitle: For large wind ensemble
General Info
Year: 1964 / 1966
Duration: c. 20:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Cost: Score and Parts - $60.00 | Score Only - $12.00
Instrumentation
Full Score (in C)
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Sopranino Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Piano
Percussion I-XI, including:
- Anvil
- Bass Drum (2)
- Chimes
- Cowbell (2)
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (2)
- Guiro
- Lion's Roar
- Maracas (2 pair)
- Ratchet
- Slapstick
- Sleigh Bells
- Snare Drum
- Steel Plate
- Suspended Cymbals (2)
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks (3)
- Tenor Drum
- Tom-toms (3)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes (bamboo)
- Wood Blocks (3)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world,
Crack Nature's moulds, all germains spill at once,
That makes ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act III, Scene 2
Commissioned by the Montclair State College Development Fund for the Montclair State College Band.
- Program Note from score
Media
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
Media
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Apocalyptica (1966)
- Black Sounds (1965)
Resources
- Rochberg, G. (1966). Apocalyptica [score]. Theodore Presser: Bryn Mawr, Penn.