Hymn for Those Who Serve
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 2:25
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $51.00; (digital) - $51.00 | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone/Baritone/Bassoon
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani (optional)
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This moving work is intended to convey gratitude and respect for those selfless men and women who defend the freedoms that Americans hold dear. Both a song of blessing and a hymn of protection, the composition begins slowly, with a soft solemn statement by winds only. The pace then quickens as a stately snare drum passage introduces a bold, dignified melody played by the trumpets. The piece moves to a dramatic final section that briefly includes material drawn from America the Beautiful.
-Program Note from The Instrumentalist
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
All Wind Works
- American Salute (as arranger)
- Annabel Lee (2000)
- And All the Bells on Earth Shall Ring
- Appalachian Tapestry (2009)
- Baba Yetu (as arranger) (2005/2015)
- Beetlejuice (as arranger) (1988/2015)
- Brother James' Air (as arranger) (1915/1995)
- Canticle (1996)
- Carols from the British Isles (as arranger) (2013)
- A Celtic Christmas
- Children's March (as arranger) (1919/2000)
- Christmas Bells Overture (2010)
- Christmas from the '50s (2009)
- A Classic Christmas
- Cole Porter Classics (as arranger) (2004)
- Colonial Song (as arranger) (1919/2014)
- The Dam Busters March (as arranger) (2004)
- Doctor Who (as arranger) (1963/2015)
- Down in Some Lonesome Valley (2002)
- Ellan Vannin Suite
- Engines of Change (2015)
- Festivo (as arranger) (1968/2008
- From Sea to Shining Sea (as scorer; arr. Whitney) (1882/1963/2017))
- Glory! (2016)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (as arranger) (1944/2006)
- Hymn for Those Who Serve (2015)
- I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (as arranger)
- I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (as arranger) (1905-12/1999)
- Irish Suite: The Last Rose of Summer (as arranger) (1950/2010)
- Irish Suite: The Wearing of the Green (as arranger) (1947/2009)
- Japanese (as arranger) (2006)
- March for a Norwegian Penguin
- March On, America! (as arranger) (2014)
- Morris Dance Tunes (as arranger) (1910/2010)
- On a Tune of William Billings (2015)
- Over the Sea to Skye (as arranger) (2014)
- Promenade (as arranger) (1945/2017)
- A Quiet Music (2007)
- A Ralph Vaughan Williams Portrait (as arranger) (2018)
- Santa in the Mix (as arranger) (2021)
- Screamers! (as arranger) (2013)
- Selections from Leroy Anderson's "Irish Suite" (as arranger) (2011)
- Slane (as arranger) (1994)
- Three Movements from "Water Music" (as arranger) (1715/2014)
- To Reap the Blessings of Freedom (2002/2005)
- Two Variants on Dives and Lazarus (2014)
- United States Armed Forces Salute (as arranger) (2020)
- U.S. Field Artillery March (as arranger)
- A Vaughan Williams Christmas (as arranger) (1999)
- We Will Remember Them (2021)
- Welcome Christmas (as arranger) (1997/2013)
- Windforce (2016)
- You'll Be Back (as arranger) (2015/2020)
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
Resources
- Douglas Wagner website Accessed 3 September 2019
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 71/8 (March, 2017), p. 30.
- Perusal score