Be Thou My Vision

Larry Clark

Larry Clark

General Info

Year: 2007
Duration: c. 5:14
Difficulty: III-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Cost: Score and Parts - $85.00   |   Score Only - $12.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I
Bassoon I
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Sax I
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:

• Bass Drum
• Bells
• Bodhran (or Tom-toms)
• Chimes
• Crash Cymbals
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Triangle
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Most people who have grown up in church will recognize Be Thou My Vision as a very famous hymn. This hymn is based on the Irish folk song Slane and originates from around 400 A.D. during the same time as St. Patrick.

The piece begins with a display of intervals to make it sound like ancient modal music and is followed by the original melody in a piccolo solo with a drone-like sound in the lower voices. The melody is used throughout the piece with full choral sections by the brass, then woodwinds, then brass again. The display from the beginning returns at the end to close the piece in a dramatic fashion.

– Program Note by composer

Be Thou My Vision (Old Irish: Rop tú mo baile or Rob tú mo bhoile) is a traditional Christian hymn of Irish origin. The words are based on a Middle Irish poem often attributed to the sixth-century Irish Christian poet St. Dallán Forgaill, although it is probably later than that. The best-known English version, with some minor variations, was translated by Eleanor Hull and published in 1912. Since 1919 it has been commonly sung to an Irish folk tune, noted as Slane in church hymnals and is one of the most popular hymns in the United Kingdom.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

• Audio: MP3 Download
• Audio CD: Roxbury High School Wind Symphony (Todd Nichols, conductor)

State Ratings

• Texas: III. Complete

Performances

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• Ohio University (Athens) University Band (Justin G. McCrary, conductor) – 3 October 2023
• Wayne (Neb.) State College Symphonic Band (Abbie Bloom, conductor) - 17 November 2020
• Atascadero (Calif.) Community Band (Cassandra Tarrantino, conductor) – 2 August 2016
• Hillsborough All-County (Fla.) 9th/10th Grade Honor Band (David Plack, conductor) - 2 February 2013
• Roxbury High School (Succasunna, N.J.) Wind Symphony (Todd Nichols, conductor) – 18 December 2008 (2008 Midwest Clinic)
• University of Nevada (Reno) Symphonic Band (Monte Grise, conductor) – 20 March 2008 (CBDNA 2008 Western/Northwestern Division Conference, Reno, Nev.)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• All-Purpose Performance Collection (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Armed Forces - The Pride of America! (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
• Bardic Air and Reel (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2021)
• Cold Mountain Saga (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2015)
• Digital Prisms (Flex instrumentation) (2001/2013)
• Radetzky March (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1848/2015)
• Shining Moments (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Spirit of an Eagle (Flex instrumentation) (2008/2012)

All Wind Works

• Acclaim March
• Achievement
• Admiration March
• Adversary
• Aftershock
• Air and Caprice
• All-Purpose Performance Collection (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Allegiance
• Alliance
• Antagonist
• Antiphony
• Armed Forces - The Pride of America! (as arranger) (2006)
• Armed Forces - The Pride of America! (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2017)
• Ascending (2013)
• Autumn Mist
• Band-o-rama March
• Bardic Air and Reel (2020)
• Bardic Air and Reel (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2021)
• A Bartok Suite (as arranger) (1909/1997)
• Be Thou My Vision
• Buckets Full of Christmas Joy (2022)
• Canticle of the Sun
• Cartoon Symphony (as arranger) (1997
• Celebration (as arranger) (1980/1996))
• Celebrity March
• Celtic Echoes (2016)
• Character
• Christmas "a la" Big Band (1998)
• Chronicles LC
• Cimarron
• The Clarion Call
• Clash and Roar
• Cloud Dancing (2016)
• Cold Mountain Saga (2006)
• Cold Mountain Saga (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2015)
• Colossus
• Confidence March
• Conflict
• Conquest LC
• Consensus
• Contredanse
• Convergence (1997)
• Conviction (2012)
• Crystal Moon (2004)
• Crystalline (2016)
• Da Vincian Visions
• Dance of the Harlequins
• Dance of the Thunderbolts
• Declaration and Dance (1996)
• Digital Prisms (2001)
• Digital Prisms (Flex instrumentation) (2001/2013)
• Dream, Imagine, Live (2015)
• Elite March
• Enduring Traveller
• Engines of Resistance (1996)
• Envisage
• Epic
• Equinox (2007)
• Ethos (2014)
• Excelcia (1995)
• Exhilaration (2009)
• Expectations (2015)
• Fanfare Acclamations
• Fanfare Supernova
• Festival Chorale and March
• Flaming Arrow
• Fleur-de-lis March
• Flourish LC
• Genesis
• Genius (as arranger) (1937/2005)
• Geology - The Study of Rock
• Goin' Home for Christmas (as arranger) (2006)
• His Honor March (as arranger) (1934/2014)
• Honor March
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (as arranger)
• Impressions
• Instinct
• Integrity
• Irish Tune from County Derry (as arranger, with Schmidt) (1918/2001)
• Joust
• Kinetic Energy (2007)
• A Land Remembered (2010)
• Lassus Trombone (as arranger) (1915/1998)
• Legacy of Honor LC
• Legends
• Loyalty March
• Magma
• March to the Movies (1998)
• Meet the Band
• Military Escort (as Harold Bennett) (as arranger) (1923/2014)
• Monmouth March
• A More Perfect Union
• Mustangs-The Spirit of the West
• Mystic Legacy
• A Natural Blues (2002)
• Omega One
• Out of the Winter
• Pavane, Op. 50 (as arranger) (1887/1999)
• Penta
• Phantom Echo
• Pieces of Eight (2010)
• Pinnacle of Distinction March
• Precision (as Harold Bennett) (as arranger) (1926/2011)
• Prestige March
• Primus
• Project (as arranger) (2002)
• The Pursuit of Knowledge
• Quest for the Throne (2018)
• Quintus
• Radetzky March (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1848/2015)
• Recognition (2010)
• Recorder Rag
• Red Hill Special March (as arranger) (2003)
• Red Thunder (2004)
• Reflections LC
• Resurgence
• The Royal Irish Regiment (2015)
• SCDBA Fanfare
• Scottish Bobber
• Sentinel
• Seven Springs
• Shenadoah's Simple Gifts (2008)
• Shining Moments (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Shockwave
• Sicilienne (as arranger) (1893/1898/2009)
• Silent Night (as arranger)
• Sleep, My Child (2018)
• The Spirit of an Eagle (2008)
• The Spirit of an Eagle (Flex instrumentation) (2008/2012)
• Success (as arranger) (1912/2001)
• Suo Gan (as arranger) (2014)
• Swords of Evolution
• Symphony No. 1 Theme (as arranger, with Feldstein) (1876/2006)
• Talons of Fire
• Tartan Tapestries (2018)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (2002)
• Torch Burns Bright
• Triumph of the Vikings
• Twist of Fate
• Upon a New Horizon (1999)
• Valor March
• Vires Artes Mores
• Whispers (with Feldstein) (2007)
• Zodiac

Resources

• Be Thou My Vision, Wikipedia. Accessed 17 November 2020
• Larry Clark website