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Subtitle: Ainissesthai
General Info
Year: 2002
Duration: c. 4:05
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: RBC Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Every measure in this inventive piece can be traced to a melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic passage used by Edward Elgar in his Enigma Variations, yet this piece is an original concert work.
- Program Note from publisher
The subtitle ainissesthai is defined as "dark saying, riddle, fable; from ainissesthai, "to speak darkly, to speak in riddles".
- Program Note from English Word Information
Media
State Ratings
- Louisiana: III
- Texas: III. Complete
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- The Alchemist (2022)
- Aluxes
- American Songs
- and fragments of a dream... (2010)
- Ballade for Horn and Band (2010)
- Canciones y Sones de Mexico (2008)
- Chateau Le Bombadier Marche
- Christmas in The Netherlands (1999)
- Dance Poem (2006)
- David's Lyre
- Dia de los Muertos (2001)
- …dim points of lights…
- Down Longford Way & Shenandoah (as transcriber)
- Elegy: Sixteen Minutes from Home (2005)
- Enigmatic Variations (2002)
- Experience the Adventure (2007)
- Fanfare for a Great Hall (2010)
- Fanfare, Elegy and Dance
- Fanfare: Experience the Adventure (2007)
- Four Dutch Hymns (1991)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (2006)
- Hanszen Parish Overture
- The Hanukkah Gift (1999)
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite No. 2 (2005)
- Hebrew Folk Song Suite No. 3 (2003)
- Hebrew Rhapsody (2003)
- Holliday Festival Overture (2002)
- Huapango! (as transcriber) (1941/1986)
- In Memory of a Summer Day
- In the Land of Green Lightning (2010)
- Introduction and Allegro (2015)
- A Lark's Song in the Clear Air (2012)
- March 104 (1998)
- Masada (2007)
- The Midnight Culmination of Sirius
- Prelude and Dance (2000)
- Prelude from "49th Parallel" (as transcriber) (1941/1960/1987/2002)
- The Rabbit and the Coyote (2005)
- Scotch Strathspey and Reel (as arranger)
- Shenandoah (arranged)
- Symphony for Winds and Percusssion (1997)
- Tower of The Winds (2009)
- Tuqa Gloria Emmeles
- West Point Songs (1981)
- The Widow's Party (as arranger) (1923/1929/2009)
Resources
- "Ainissesthai." English-Word Information. Web. Accessed 13 June 2021
- Leroy Osmon website Accessed 13 June 2021
- Osmon, L. (2002). Enigmatic Variations: Ainissesthai [score]. RBC Publications: San Antonio, Tx.