Exultant Heart, The
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General Info
Year: 2016
Duration: c. 6:55
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Wingert-Jones
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00; (digital) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
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
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bells
- Chimes
- Finger Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Exultant Heart is a piece about the joy that true love brings to one's life. The main theme of the piece contains melodic material from two of classical music's greatest love themes (in the composer's opinion): The melody of Schumann's song Widmung, which is a testament of love to Clara Wieck, who was to become his wife, and the recurring theme which represents the woman of the composer's affections in Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. The middle section is a lively dance which alludes to a rustic wedding dance complete with drum and tamborine. After a climax, the first theme returns in a chorale-like setting, while the dance rhythm continues over it. The music gradually settles down to return to the mood of the opening of the piece while chimes improvise like church bells fading into the distance.
The Exultant Heart was commissioned by Demosthenes Dimitrakoulakos for the Symphonic Band of the International School of Luxembourg as a anniversary gift for his wife, Maria Giannakopoulou-Dimitrakoulakou.
- Program Note from score
Awards
- Winner of the NBA/Merrill Jones Composition Contest, 2016.
Media
State Ratings
- Georgia: IV
Performances
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- East Texas Baptist University (Marshall) Symphonic Band (Nathan G. Phillips, conductor) - 3 March 2022
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Gold Band (Cory Near, conductor) – 24 October 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Agua Nocturna (2010)
- And Can It Be (2009)
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- Burning Music (2011)
- Chamber Concerto No. 1 (2012)
- Concertino Caboclo (2012)
- Dancefares (2016)
- Deep Calls to Deep (2016)
- The Exultant Heart (2016)
- Ford's Machine (2011)
- The Grand Processional of Our Reptilian Overlords (2019)
- He Who Would Valiant Be (2010)
- Heavy Weather (2012)
- I Know Moonrise (2019)
- If I Am to Leave... See: Symphony No. 1
- In Light, Accessible... (2015)
- The King of Love, My Shepherd Is (2004)
- Last Dances of Prospero (2009)
- Light Beyond Shadow (as arranger) (2020/2022)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby for Leaving (2021)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Lux Veritas,
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- The Mountain Whippoorwill (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Nuclear Family (2014)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Red Rover (2019)
- Rumpelstilzchen (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Pham, Danh T. "The Exultant Heart." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 459-463. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.