Milonga Ornamental
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General Info
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Duration: c. 3:50
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Aamano Music
Cost: Score and Parts – Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Milonga Ornamental is a moderately difficult piece for concert band. The piece pays tribute to milonga, a musical style that began in the Río de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay and dates from around the 1870s.
One characteristic of a milonga is the “answering” of melodies and phrases, a characteristic of the payada de contrapunto singing style from which milonga developed. The payadores, with guitar accompaniment, would “answer” each other’s lyrics, improvising in a kind of friendly one-upsmanship-like contest. That characteristic appears throughout this piece, not in lyrics, but in different combinations of band sections “answering” one another in exchanges of two-, four-, and eight-measure phrases. The word "milonga," from Brazilian and African origins, means "words." The title's “Ornamental” describes the piece’s melodic embellishments, mainly sixteenth-note-triplet turns and grace notes.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
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Performances
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- Cypress Symphonic Band (Houston, Tex.) (Clarence Weeks, conductor) – 1 July 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Legato Lagoon (Flex instrumentation) (2013)
- Tomorrow's Hopes and New Horizons (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
All Wind Works
- Back Talk with a Beat (1981)
- Jazzy Capriccio (2011)
- Legato Lagoon (Flex instrumentation) (2013)
- Milonga Ornamental
- Mythical Royals and Their Heroic Defenders (2018)
- The Quest (2016)
- Quintapentacle (1980)
- Tomorrow's Hopes and New Horizons (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Arthur J. Michaels." Accessed 5 July 2017