Merry Music
General Info
Year: 1983
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Editio Music Budapest
Cost: Score and Parts - $64.95 | Score Only - $14.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Tom-toms (2)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Hidas composed Merry Music for wind band in 1980; it was published in 1983. This pleasant A-B-A work was premiered at the first WASBE conference in Manchester, England, in July 1981. Hidas justifies the title by incorporating bouncy Hungarian dance and folk-song rhythms with the late romanticism of Tchaikovsky. With his careful scoring technique, including sparse use of percussion, the composer is able to create a feeling of lightness even when played by a large symphonic band. A second unique feature is the use of the conical-bore brass instruments as a mellow-sounding bridge between woodwinds and the brighter-sounding cylindrical brass instruments.
- Program Note from Program Notes for Band
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Kutztown University Wind Ensemble (Daniel Paul Neuenschwander, conductor) - 22 April 2022
- OMEA District 4 & 7 Viking Band (Birch Browning, conductor) – 13 November 2021 (OMEA All-State Conference 2021, Cleveland State University)
- Iowa State University (Ames) Wind Ensemble (Michael Golemo, conductor) – 29 September 2017
- Quad Cities Wind Ensemble (Brian Hughes) - 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Capriccio (1979/1995/2015)
- Circus Suite (1985/1996)
- Concerto for Bassoon (1999)
- Concerto No. 2 for Oboe (1998/2000)
- Concerto for Oboe (arr. Patterson)
- Concerto for Wind Band
- Coriolanus (1980)
- Divertimento (1985/1993)
- Etude for Wind Band
- Fantasy and Fugue
- Fantasy (1999)
- Folksong Suite No. 1 (1985)
- Folksong Suite No. 2 (1988)
- Merry Music (1983)
- Pictures of South Africa (2014)
- Requiem
- Rhapsody (1983)
- Save the Sea (1998)
- Suite
Resources
- Hidas, F.; Ungarn, K. (1983). Merry Music: For Wind Band [score]. Editio Musica: Budapest.
- Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 286.