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Cradle Moon
Subtitle: For Flexible Wind Band with Adaptable Parts
General Info
Year: 2020
Duration: c. 3:25
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Trumpet
- Keyboard Percussion
- Violin
Part 2
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Keyboard Percussion
- Violin
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Horn in F
- Violin
- Viola
Part 4
- Bassoon
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Horn in F
- Cello
Part 5
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Cradle Moon was commissioned by the Folly Quarter Middle School Band (Md.), Andrew Spang, conductor. It is a setting of a lullaby that has been passed down through at least five generations in my wife's family. Despite significant research into the text and tune, I have not come up with a source for this melody.
The piece opens peacefully, with the harmonized melody first being delivered by the middle voices. After a transitional phrase that brings greater harmonic dissonance into the music, the growing intensity releases into a climactic phrase in which Away in a Manger and an ornamented delivery of Amazing Grace encircle our lullaby melody. The music then calms and settles, as a child drifting off to sleep.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Gettysburg (Penn.) College Sunderman Wind Orchestra (Seven Marx, conductor) - 8 May 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Cradle Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Second to None (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Stomping Ground (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- The Blawenburg Quick March (2009)
- Commonwealth Fanfare (2022)
- Cradle Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Emeritus (2015)
- From the Banks to the Blue Ridge
- Light the Way (2019)
- Murmurations
- Our Reply (2018)
- Ring Out, Wild Bells!
- Salaam (2009)
- Second to None (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Shining Through
- Stomping Ground (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Symphony No. 1 (2008)
- Jackson Square (2008)
- Storm (2008)
- Lament (2008/2015)
- Play! (2008/2015)
- When Friends Rejoice
- Within Our Reach (2019)
Resources
- Carl Holmquist website Accessed 22 August 2020
- Perusal score