Celestial Song
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General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 3:10
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts - $65.00 | Score Only - $7.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
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
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Composer Robert Spittal was moved to complete this work in response to the Newtown, Conn., tragedy in 2012, and serves as a reflection of our complicated feelings of grief and loss. The music is simple and direct, and meant as a hopeful work for young players. Moved by a metaphor describing the victims as “twenty-six new diamonds in the sky” the title is a reference to the stars which we look upward to for inspiration, for hope, and to dream of better things to come.
- Program Note from publisher
Celestial Song was composed for the Gonzaga University Wind Symphony and was premiered, conducted by the composer, in April 2013.
- Program Note from Teaching Music through Performance in Band
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Vandercook College of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Charles T. Menghini, conductor) – 19 December 2014 (2014 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Pacem (Adaptable Band) (2005/2020)
- Suite Euphonious (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Winsome Variations (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
All Wind Works
- Arise (2021)
- Blue Allusions (2020)
- Celestial Song (2014)
- Chinook Sketches
- Consort for Ten Winds (2005)
- Diversions (2018)
- Euphonious IV (2018)
- Tarantella Forsennato (2010)
- Lament (for a Fallen Friend)
- Mockingbird Rag
- Pacem (2005)
- Pacem (Adaptable Band) (2005/2020)
- Pacem (Brass Choir)
- Pineapple Frippery
- Prelude and Flight for Violin and Band (2014)
- Prelude and Scherzo
- Tarantella Forsennato (2005/2009)
- Scherzo: Cat and Mouse (2012)
- St George's Fanfare
- Suite Euphonious (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Winsome Variations (2019)
- Winsome Variations (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Winter Dreams
Resources
- King, Michael T. "Celestial Song." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 145-151. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.
- Perusal score
- Robert Spittal website Accessed 26 June 2018
- Spittal, R. (2013). Celestial Song [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: New York, N.Y.