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Awakening (Wilson)
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The title of this work is correctly written "Awakening..."
Contents
General Info
Year: 2011
5:20
Duration: c. 5:25
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00; (digital) - $85.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II (optional)
Bassoon (optional)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet (optional)
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
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V
(percussion detail needed)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Beginning with silence and gradually building throughout to a powerful and dramatic close, this distinctive work explores the various facets of the word "awakening" as it applies to the waking of an individual, a day or a philosophical idea. Awakening... makes use of striking colors and sonic devices including full percussion near the climatic finish.
- Program Note by publisher
Awakening... is an example of postmodern music and exhibits the tendency of postmodern composers to combine ideas and techniques of different styles. Awakening... represents the common sound of early twenty-first century postmodernism in instrumental music -- a juxtaposition of American vernacular styles and contemporary concert music. Among other modern elements, the piece incorporates sound staging around the concert hall.
Awakening... is in a modified rondo form, consisting of four thematic sections and a coda. As the title suggests, the piece gradually comes from nothing and builds to a dramatic closing.
The work was commissioned by the Ithaca College School of Music and dedicated to the New York State School Music Association and all public school music teachers. The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble premiered the work in December 2011.
- Program Note adapted from Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Symphony Band (Phillip Ostrander, conductor) – 17 November 2017
- UT (University of Tennessee?) Wind Ensemble – 3 March 2013
Works for Winds by this Composer
A complete list of Dana Wilson's compositions may be found here:
- Avatar, The (2005)
- Awakening... (2011)
- The Banquet (2017)
- Black Nightshade (2004)
- Calling, Ever Calling (1990)
- Clarion Call (1988)
- Colorado Peaks (2009)
- Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble (2010)
- Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1997)
- Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble (2019)
- Concerto for Trombone (2015)
- Concerto for Tuba (Wilson) (2012)
- Conjurer, The (2015)
- Dance of the New World (1992)
- Day Dreams (2006)
- Evolution (1999)
- Fanfare for a New Center (2011)
- Fanfare for Karel (2017)
- Footsteps (2010)
- How Very Close (2012)
- Io Rising
- Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
- Last Ride to Solutré (1998)
- Leader Lieder (1993)
- Liquid Ebony (2006)
- Liquid Gold (2005)
- Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
- Old Number One (2017)
- On Fire! (2017)
- Piece of Mind (1987)
- Quintessence (2019)
- Sang! (1993)
- Searching for Lost Dreams (2013)
- Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
- Shortcut Home (2003)
- Speak to Me (2010)
- ...the harder they fall (2004)
- Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
- To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
- Uprising (1995)
- Vortex (1999)
- When I Am Gone Away (2006)
Resources
- Dana Wilson website
- Keck, Thomas. "Awakening." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 9, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 490-495. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2013.
- Wilson, D. [2012]. Awakening... [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: New York.
