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Be Still and Still Moving
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 7:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Nicole Piunno
Cost: Score and Parts – Available July 2021
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe (div.)
Bassoon (div.)
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium (div.)
Tuba (div.)
Timpani
Percussion I-IX, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Chimes
- China Cymbals
- Concert Toms (4)
- Conga
- Crash Cymbals (2: one suspended)
- Marimba
- Shekere
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal (large)
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Be Still and Still Moving was written for my friend and former band director, James Gray. The piece was written during his 35th year of teaching.
The hymn Be Still, My Soul serves as the backbone of this piece. The opening is calm, yet mysterious. This leads to a more dramatic middle section that is full of continuous motion. Over all, this piece reveals the paradox of finding rest even in the midst of unceasing movement and eventually leads to a bold chorale of the hymn with fanfare-like motives above it. At this moment in the piece I think of the following line from the hymn: "All now mysterious shall be bright at last."
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Dublin (Ohio) Scioto High School Wind Ensemble (James Gray, conductor) – 2 May 2021 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Articulate March (2016)
- Autumn Air (2016)
- Be Still and Still Moving (2021)
- Beauty Broken (2015)
- Blue Radiance (2020)
- Bright Shadow Fanfare (2021)
- Catharsis (2020)
- Dance the Joy Alive (2016)
- Eternity in an Hour (2016)
- I Will Lament and Love (2018)
- Image on Truth (2019)
- Letters from the Traveling Doll (2021)
- Look Not Upon Us (2011)
- Monterey Sketches
- Night Watches (2020)
- On a Hill Far Away
- Postcard from Sequoia (2019)
- Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Resound (2021)
- Safely Rest (2020)
- Shifting Shadows
- Solace Dance (2016)
- Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Spring Fanfare (2016)
- Sunflower Studies (2023)
- Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Through Wind and Whispers (2014)
- Where Words Cannot Go (2020)
- Woven
- You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)
Resources
- Nicole Piunno website Accessed 3 May 2021
- Perusal score