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Mississippi
General Info
Year: 1992
Duration: c. 8:40
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alliance Publications
Cost: Score & Parts - $55.00 | Score Only - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Narration
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion, including:
- Congas
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-Tam?)
- Snare Drum
- Temple Blocks
- Timpani
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Mississippi - A Tone Poem of America's Greatest River was commissioned by the School District of LaCrosse, Wisconsin for their 1992 Middle School Honors Band Festival. The work portrays the river through a narrative text and characteristic musical motifs. These motifs will be of interest to the performing musicians for they symbolize the river and its environs: open fifths as the strength of the Native American tribes and the grandeur of the stone bluffs; the wave action of the the river and fall is represented by the diatonic interval of a second; the motion of the water by the natural minor scale melody, the percussion writing and the pentatonic melodies joining in counterpart symbolize the peaceful nature of the Native Americans living along its banks.
The appearance of the tune, Ol' Man River, by Jerome kern from Showboat, is intentional since it is also patterned on a pentatonic scale. Its use can provide the students with a strong American cultural connection.
Program Note from Published Score
Commercial Discography
Media
State Ratings
North Carolina: III
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- Air for Woodwind Choir (as arranger) (1731/1993/2007)
- Celebration of Praise
- Christmas Rhapsody for Band
- Concertino for Percussionist and Chamber Winds
- Easter Sunrise
- Fanfare and Processional (1998)
- From Tender Stem
- Good Land - Wau Toma
- I Am a Fine Musician
- Invention No. 1
- Invention No. 2
- Invention No. 3
- Largo and Finale for Band (from the New World Symphony) (as arranger) (1893/1996)
- Marian Symphony
- Mississippi
- Sarabande (as transcriber) (1894/2013)
- Sinfonietta Fanfare for Band (as arranger)
- Six Ceremonial Fanfares for Band
- Slava! A Celebration for Band
- Slavic Miniatures
- Two Beautiful Countries
Resources
- Dunker, Amy. Analysis of Mississippi
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