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Exultant Heart, The
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Contents
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.
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Georgia: IV
Performances
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- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Gold Band (Cory Near, conductor) – 24 October 2018
Works for Winds by this Composer
Works for Band and Wind Ensemble
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- 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 -- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble (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)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- Mountain Whippoorwill, The (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Rumpelstilzchen: A Fairy Tale for Wind Ensemble (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Chamber Works:
- And Can It Be, for brass sextet (2009)
- Agua Nocturna, for chamber winds and percussion quartet (2010)
- Burning Music, for chamber ensemble (2011)
- Falling Wrong, for bassoon and piano (2014)
- I Carry Your Heart, for soprano, piano, and flugelhorn (2008)
- Last Dances of Prospero, for horn quartet (2009)
- Lux Veritas, for brass quintet and harp
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon, for Bb clarinet, alto saxophone, cello, piano, and percussion (2013)
- Nuclear Family, for clarinet quartet (2014)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Tom O'Bedlam, for flute/alto flute and percussion (2014)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
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.
