Be Still and Still Moving
General Info
Year: 2020
Duration: c. 7:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $200.00 | Score Only (print) - $40.00
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
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. Overall, 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
- Texas: IV
Performances
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- State University of New York Fredonia Concert Band (Carrie Pawleski, conductor) - 28 September 2023
- Libertyville (Ill.) High School Wind Ensemble (Adam Gohr, conductor) - 17 November 2022
- Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant) Saunders Alumni Band (Pamela Klena, conductor) - 9 October 2022
- Capital University (Bexley, Ohio) Wind Symphony (Nicole Piunno, conductor) - 2 October 2022
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)
- At a Crossroads (2022)
- Autumn Air (2016)
- Be Still and Still Moving (2020)
- Beauty Broken (2015)
- Blue Radiance (2020)
- Bright Shadow Fanfare (2021)
- Catharsis (2020)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- Dance the Joy Alive (2016)
- Down by the Sally Gardens
- 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)
- The Spirit Is Willing (2023)
- 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