Kentucky Harmony
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General Info
Year: 2000
Duration: c. 10:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Piquant Press
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental | Score Only - $45.00
Movements
1. Rockbridge/Lenox - 3:00
2. Hiding Place- 4:30
3. Enfield/Dublin - 2:40
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ananias Davisson’s Kentucky Harmony first appeared in 1816 and contained 143 shape note tunes in four-part settings. It is one of the earliest sources of what came to be known as “Southern folk hymnody,” and exerted considerable influence on the many similar collections that followed it such as The Sacred Harp and Missouri Harmony.
Composer Donald Grantham has long been attracted to the spare, rugged qualities of this music, and in a previous work for wind ensemble, Southern Harmony, employed five shape-note tunes in a manner that preserved much of their originalflavor. Likewise in his Kentucky Harmony, five tunes are employed in three movements, and at some point in each movement the tunes are presented in theiroriginal four-part harmonizations. The composer complements this material in a variety of ways, all of which are designed to highlight the most striking aspects of each setting. The intention is to present a free fantasy on the original vocal models that fully utilizes the capabilities of the modern wind ensemble.
Kentucky Harmony was commissioned in honor of Paula Crider’s retirement by former Crockett High School students, the Austin ISD and friends.
- Program Note from Hartt Symphony Band concert program, 10 December 2016
Media
- Audio CD: Grand Ledge High School Wind Symphony (Michael Kaufman, conductor) – 2000
State Ratings
- Florida: VI
- Louisiana: V
- Michigan: Senior High AA
- Texas: IV. Complete
Performances
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- Central Kentucky (Lexington) Concert Band (Les Anderson, conductor) – 1 March 2020
- Claudia Taylor Johnson High School (San Antonio, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Jarrett Lipman, conductor) - 19 December 2019 (2019 Midwest Clinic)
- University of Illinois (Champaign) Wind Orchestra (Beth Peterson, conductor) – 11 November 2018
- University of North Texas (Denton) Concert Band (Jack A. Eaddy Jr., conductor) – 8 November 2017
- The Hartt Symphony Band (West Hartford, Conn.) (John T. Hart, Jr., conductor) – 10 December 2016
- University of Colorado, Boulder, Concert Band and Symphonic Band – 13 April 2016
- University of Texas Symphony Band (Jerry Junkin, conductor) - 22 February 2015
- SEMMEA (Southeast Massachusetts Music Educators Association) District Band (Glen Adsit, conductor) - 2011
- University of Texas at Arlington Wind Ensemble (Lois Ferrari, conductor) – 21 February 2001 (CBDNA 2001 National Conference, Denton, Tx.)
- Grand Ledge (Mich.) High School Wind Symphony (Michael Kaufman, conductor) – 21 December 2000 (2000 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- After Hafiz (2016)
- Amber Sky
- Baron Cimetiere's Mambo (2004)
- Baron Piquant on Pointe (2011)
- Baron La Croix's Shuffle (2007)
- Baron Samedi's Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) (2005)
- Bum's Rush (1994)
- Chant and Hymn for Our Lady
- Circa 1600 (2018)
- Cloudless Day, Bitter Sky (2002)
- "Come Memory..." (2002)
- Concerto in One Movement for Bass Trombone (1979)
- Court Music (2005)
- Don't You See? (2001)
- Effulgent Light (2017)
- Exhilaration and Cry (2008)
- Fantasy on "In Dulci Jubilo" (2015)
- Fantasy on "La Golondrina" (2003)
- Fantasy on Mr. Hyde's Song (1998)
- Fantasy Variations (1927/1998)
- Farewell to Gray (2001)
- Fayetteville Bop (2002)
- From "An Alabama Songbook" (2007)
- Honey in the Rock (2008)
- JS Dances (2003)
- J'ai été au bal (1999)
- Kentucky Harmony (2000)
- Let Evening Come (Grantham) (2014)
- Lone Star Twister (2008)
- Music for the Blanton (2006)
- Northern Celebration (2001)
- Phantasticke Spirites (2002)
- Shenandoah (2017)
- Southern Harmony (1998)
- Wondrous Love (2008)
- Sol y Sombra (2014)
- Spangled Heavens (2010)
- Starry Crown (2007)
- Symphony for Winds and Percussion (2009)
- Stomp (Grantham) (2009)
- Summer of 2008 (2008)
- Thunderbird
- Trumpet Gloria (2006)
- Tuba Concerto (Grantham) (2012)
- An Uneasy Mrch
- Variations on an American Cavalry Song (2001)
- What Comes Around... (2017)
- A Winter Sky (2022)
Resources
- Grantham, D. (2000). Kentucky Harmony: For Wind Ensemble [score]. Piquant Press: Austin, Tx.