Canticle
General Info
Year: 1996
Duration: c. 2:45
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00; (digital) - $55.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone/Euphonium TC
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone/Euphonium/Bassoon
Tuba
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears.
Soft stillness and the night
become the touches of sweet harmony.
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Act V, Scene I
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Louisiana: I
- North Carolina: II
- South Carolina: II
- Texas: I. Complete
- Virginia: III
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School (Union City, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Nelson Agregado, conductor) - 17 February 2017 (2017 CASMEC Conference, San Jose)
- Musikverein Niederwürzbach 1956 (Blieskastel, Germany) 23 December 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
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- Canticle (1996)
- Carols from the British Isles (as arranger) (2013)
- A Celtic Christmas
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- A Vaughan Williams Christmas (as arranger) (1999)
- We Will Remember Them (2021)
- Welcome Christmas (as arranger) (1997/2013)
- Windforce (2016)
- You'll Be Back (as arranger) (2015/2020)
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Wagner, D. (1996). Canticle [score]. Alfred Publishing Co.: [s.l.]