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Music from ''Les Misérables"
Claude-Michel Schönberg (arr. Michael Sweeney)
General Info
Year: 1980 / 1998
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Convertible Bass Line
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The music from one of Broadway's and motion picture's treasures is now available in a carefully crafted edition for younger groups. Michael Sweeney's version is superb in rehearsal and performance, and features four outstanding songs including Work Song; I Dreamed A Dream; Master Of The House and Do You Hear The People Sing? "Les Mis" is still going strong and will be for years to come.
- Program Note from publisher
Les Misérables is a sung-through musical based on the novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. The London production has run continuously since October 1985: the second longest-running musical in the world.
Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Nonanegah Community High School (Rockton, Ill.) Combined Bands (Jeremiah Kramper, conductor) - 6 May 2021
- Koninklijke Harmonie Musina (Muizen, Belgium) (Stijn De Raes, conductor) – 21 October 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Selections from the Motion Picture "Les Misérables" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1980/2013)
All Wind Works
- Highlights from "Les Misérables" (arr. Vinson) (1980/1991)
- I Dreamed a Dream (arr. Brown) (1980/2009)
- I’d Give My Life for You from "Miss Saigon" (arr. Richard) (1989)
- Les Misérables (1980)
- Miss Saigon (arr. Warren Barker) (1989/1991)
- Miss Saigon Selections (arr. Jay Bocook)
- Music from Les Misérables" (arr. Sweeney) (1980/1998)
- On My Own (arr. Vinson) (1980/1987)
- Selections from "Les Misérables" (arr. Barker) (1980/1987)
- Selections from "Les Misérables" (arr. Hough) (1980)
- Selections from "Les Misérables" (arr. Vinson) (1980/1991)
- Selections from the Motion Picture "Les Misérables" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1980/2013)
- Soundtrack Highlights from Les Misérables (arr. Jay Bocook) (1980/2013)
- Suddenly: from "Les Misérables'' (arr. Kazik) (1980)
Resources
- Les Misérables (musical), Wikipedia Accessed 23 January 2016
- Perusal score
- Schönberg, C.; Kretzmer, H.; Sweeney, M. (1998). Music from Les Misérables: A Musical [score]. Alain Boublil Music: Milwaukee, Wisc.