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Gathering, The
Subtitle: Waltz for Concert Band
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 1:45
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Brooke Pierson
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $45.00; (digital) - $45.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
F Horn
Trombone/Euphonium/Bassoon
Baritone T.C.
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This waltz is the perfect piece to teach 3/4 time as well as reinforcing playing in the minor mode. All players have interesting parts including the low voices who are featured melodically.
The waltz is a musical form that has been popular for several hundred years, originating in the folk dances of European communities as far back the 16th century. While the waltz eventually became an acceptable form of music and dance, its origins were considered scandalous at the time: dancers holding hands and moving in close proximity with one another. It would seem fitting that such a "scandalous" past would have allowed composers, such as Camille Saint-Saëns, to interpret waltzes in a variety of ways. Danse Macabre, a famous and unconventional waltz by Saint-Saëns, tells the story of Death appearing at midnight on Halloween and dancing with the dead.
This waltz was composed with the same type of imagery and feeling in mind: to illicit a sense of magic and whimsy.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Amalthea. See: Moons of Jupiter
- Annapurna. See: Symphony No. 1
- The Archangel Gabriel (2020)
- The Beginning of All Things (2023)
- Café Bleu (2022)
- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Orchestra (2019)
- Deliverance (2020)
- Demon Dance (2011)
- The Devil's Circus (2009)
- each moment should be lived fully (2021)
- Europa. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Gathering (2019)
- The Gathering (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Heart's Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (2020)
- Heaven's Morning Breaks (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Io. See: Moons of Jupiter
- The Lighthouse Keeps Watch (2020)
- Memories in Vivid Color (2023)
- Moons of Jupiter (2020)
- On the Precipice
- Psalm 74 (2023)
- Remember Autumn Skies
- Rise Up (2020)
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Symphony No. 2 (2021)
- Underneath the Silence (2008)
- We Are Made of Star Stuff (2022)
- West Point. See: Symphony No. 2
- When a Good Man Goes to War (2018)
Resources
- Brooke Pierson website Accessed 28 June 2020
- Perusal score