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Garden Rain
General Info
Year: 1974
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Editions Salabert
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental | Score - $14.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
Group 1
Trumpet (in C) I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Tuba
Group 2
Trumpet (in C) I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
As the title suggests, this music was inspired by the idea of gardens, particularly, in poem which was written by Susan Morrison. Japanese gardens are world famous for their unique style, spatialization, and harmony with nature based on Japanese aesthetics. Takemitsu writes: “I love gardens. They do not reject people. There one can walk freely pause to view the entire garden, or gaze at a single tree. Plants, rocks, and sand show changes, constant changes.” He wrote several compositions about gardens.
Garden Rain begins with soft and “stationary” long notes. According to Burt, it is influenced by sho (a Japanese traditional wind instruments consisting of 17 narrow bamboo pipes), its chord, because of the “pitch-material of Garden Rain in terms of subsets formed by ‘partitioning’ of the traditional repertory of sho chords”, and the pauses necessary inhaling and exhaling between musical movements or phrases.
- Program Note from Silence in the music of John Cage, Toru Takemitsu and Salvatore Sciarrino
Garden Rain is dedicated to the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
Media
- Audio CD: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - 1974
- Audio CD: Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra (Hong-jae Kim, conductor) - 1998
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- New England Conservatory (Boston, Mass.) Wind Ensemble (Boyang Yu, conductor) - 17 December 2015
- New England Conservatory (Boston, Mass.) Wind Ensemble (Richard Henebry, conductor) - 13 December 2011
- Indiana University (Bloomington) Brass Choir (Edmund Cord, conductor) - 5 December 2010
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Concerto de chambre (1955)
- Garden Rain (1974)
- Rain Tree (1981)
- Signals from Heaven (1987)
Resources
- Chung Eun (2018). Silence in the music of John Cage, Toru Takemitsu and Salvatore Sciarrino. 2018. Rutgers University, PhD dissertation.
- Takemitsu, T. (1974). Garden Rain: For Brass Ensemble [score]. Salabert: New York.