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Nazca Lines
Subtitle: The Universe Drawn on the Earth
General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 10:15
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bravo/Brain
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $145.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I (Piccolo)
B-flat Trumpet II-III
Flugelhorn
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Antique Cymbal
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Cabasa
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Gong
- Guiro
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Rainstick (2 or 3)
- Shakers
- Sleigh Bells
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Nazca lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 80 km (50 miles) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru.
The glyphs are believed to have been created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and AD 700. They include hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, etc. The creators of the lines and why they were made are unknown. Though many theories exist, such as sun calendars or alien guidance, one by Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist, suggesting that “Ancient people drew geoglyphs of constellations that are most related to water” fascinated me the most.
The renderings are explained as part of a practice involving the worship of deities associated with the availability of water, and thus the fertility of crops. The lines were interpreted primarily as sacred paths leading to points of worship, and the figures were of sacred animals and objects to invoke their aid. Also, a massive, exactly symmetric arrow more than 50 km long was discovered when NASA launched its Landsat™ imagery. This geoglyph can only be seen from space. Was this also created by ancient people?
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Commercial Discography
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Honolulu (Hi.) Wind Ensemble (Keith Higaki, conductor) – 17 April 2018
- Banda Militar dos Açores (Azores) – 3 March 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Capricious Winds II (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2013)
- Intrada II (Flex instrumentation) (2011/2012)
- Seasons Floral Scented (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Triple Scoop Ice Cream II (Flex instrumentation)
All Wind Works
- Alphamonic Overture
- And Then the Ocean Glows (2002/2011)
- The Bells of Sagrada Familia (2009)
- Call of the Aboriginals (2017)
- Cantilena
- Capricious Winds
- Capricious Winds II (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2013)
- Concertino for Solo Percussion and Wind Orchestra (2012)
- The Earnest Wish of Priest Kokei
- Fanfare - Flight to the Unknown World
- Fanfare - The Benefaction from Sky and Mother Earth (2010)
- Fanfare Hayabusa (2011)
- Fanfare Mi-Chi-Bi-Ki
- Four Seasons of Japan (2019)
- Hunting Scenes (2013)
- Hymn to the Infinite Sky (2006)
- Hymn to the Sun - with the Beat of Mother Earth (2006/2010)
- Intrada (2001)
- Intrada II (Flex instrumentation) (2011/2012)
- Largo (2010)
- Machu Picchu - City in the Sky (2005)
- March-Bou-Shu (2006)
- March-Chagu-Chagu (2016/2017)
- March Willing and Able
- Marimba Concerto (2009)
- The Memory of Our Native Place
- Moses and Ramses
- Nazca Lines (2005)
- Perseus (2005)
- Pompeii (2011)
- Primavera (2008)
- A Scene of Rome (2010/2014)
- Seasons Floral Scented (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Sentimentale (2015)
- The Singapore Flyer (2010)
- Spring Sketches, The
- Swaying in the West Wind
- Symphonic Episode
- Triple Scoop Ice Cream
- Triple Scoop Ice Cream II (Flex instrumentation)
- Trumpet Concerto (2013)
- The Victoria Peak (2015)
- Voyage (Flight to a Hopeful Future)
- The West Symphony (2003-2006)
- The Wings of Eternity (2015)
- Young Pheasants in the Sky