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Blue Bird, The
Charles Villiers Stanford (arr. Steven Bryant)
General Info
Year: 1910 / 2016
Duration: c. 3:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Steven Bryant
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II-III
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
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
Solo Flugelhorn
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Stanford’s The Blue Bird is a partsong, on a poem by Mary Coleridge. The soprano voice solos (heard in the flute, clarinet, and flugelhorn) are not exactly “blue notes” in the jazz sense. Rather, they convey a sense of mind, detached somehow from the everyday, a dreamlike state.
The lake lay blue below the hill,
O’er it, as I looked, there flew
Across the waters, cold and still,
A bird whose wings were palest blue.
The sky above was blue at last,
The sky beneath me blue in blue,
A moment, ere the bird had passed,
It caught his image as he flew.
- Program Note from Baylor University Symphonic Band concert program, 28 February 2017
This is an arrangement of Charles Villiers Stanford’s exquisite choral work from 1910. I made this during the summer of 2016 for my own pleasure, and as a primer for myself just before writing Nothing Gold Can Stay.
- Program Note by Steven Bryant
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Baylor University (Waco, Texas) Symphonic Band (Isaiah Odajima, conductor) – 28 February 2018
- University of Colorado Boulder Symphonic Band (Matthew Roeder, conductor) – 8 February 2018
- Baylor University (Waco, Texas) Symphonic Band (Isaiah Odajima, conductor) – 28 February 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Blue Bird, The (arr. Bryant) (1910/2016)
- Installation March (1908)
- Irish Rhapsody (arr. Adkins) (1924)
- Shamus O’Brien (arr. Adkins) (1922)
- Songs of the Sea (arr. Adkins)
Resources
- Charles Villiers Stanford, Wikipedia Accessed 24 February 2017
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Charles Villiers Stanford." Accessed 24 February 2017
- Perusal score