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Of my dream before me
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 14:55
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Violin and piano
Publisher: Dana Wilson
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00
Movements
1. No longer the light
2. I lie down in the shadow
3. Bright like a sun
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Violin
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbals (2)
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The work was originally for violin and piano, but it seemed that the color potential that the winds would provide would serve to vivify the material. The title and movement titles come from the poem As I grew older by Langston Hughes.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Maryland (College Park) Wind Orchestra (Michael Votta, conductor; James Stern, violin) - 10 December 2021 *Premiere Chamber Winds Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
A complete list of Dana Wilson's compositions may be found here:
- Avatar, The (2005)
- Awakening... (2011)
- The Banquet (2017)
- Black Nightshade (2004)
- Calling, Ever Calling (1990)
- Clarion Call (1988)
- Colorado Peaks (2009)
- Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble (2010)
- Concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble (2021)
- Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1997)
- Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble (2019)
- Concerto for Trombone (2015)
- Concerto for Tuba (Wilson) (2012)
- Conjurer, The (2015)
- Dance of the New World (1992)
- Day Dreams (2006)
- Evolution (1999)
- Fanfare for a New Center (2011)
- Fanfare for Karel (2017)
- Footsteps (2010)
- Front Burner (2020)
- How Very Close (2012)
- Io Rising
- Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
- Last Ride to Solutré (1998)
- Leader Lieder (1993)
- Liquid Ebony (2006)
- Liquid Gold (2005)
- May the Road Rise Up to Meet You (2013/2019)
- Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
- Of my dream before me... (2021)
- Old Number One (2017)
- On Fire! (2017)
- Piece of Mind (1987)
- Primal Worlds (2000)
- Quintessence (2019)
- Sang! (1993)
- Searching for Lost Dreams (2013)
- Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
- Shortcut Home (2003)
- Speak to Me (2010)
- ...the harder they fall (2004)
- the most sacred of times (2022)
- Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
- To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
- Uprising (1995)
- Vortex (1999)
- When I Am Gone Away (2006)
- Winds on the Steppes (1994)
Resources
- Dana Wilson website Accessed 26 December 2021