Paintings
General Info
Year: 2011
Duration: c. 9:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $115.00 | Score Only - $18.00
Movements
1. Prelude
2. The Sultan of Morocco
3. Birds in Landscape
4. Catherine the Great
5. A Flemish Countryside
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Bells
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Tricycle Bell
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
Harpsichord (op. keyboard)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This programmatic five-movement work portrays a series of colorful paintings and is an ideal centerpiece for your next program. Movements include the fanfare and fugue-like Prelude, the mystical The Sultan of Morocco, the tranquil Birds in Landscape, the regal and elegant Catherine the Great, and the lively and humorous character of A Flemish Countryside. An amazing array of styles in a work of grand proportion!
-Program Note from publisher
The Marjorie Merriweather Post Art Collection, housed at the Christine DeVitt Fine Arts Center on the South Plains College campus in Levelland, Texas, is both priceless and timeless. Mrs. Merriweather, the founder of General Foods, Inc. and a leading American philanthropist, had a strong desire for young people to become admirers and enthusiasts of art, and over an eight-year period (1965-1973), she gifted the several paintings in this collection to South Plains College. Paintings was commissioned by the South Plains College Department of Fine Arts and is based on four of the works from this fabulous collection.
A trumpet call heralds in the Prelude, while The Sultan of Morocco is a beautifully woven tapestry of wind sounds and percussion colors indicative of a heritage rich in history and culture. As one ponders Bds in Landscape, feelings of serenity ensue, as the music is soothing and tranquil. A stately introduction and tone-rich fanfare beckon us to the presence of her majesty, Catherine the Great. The piece concludes in rousing fashion with the rollicking A Flemish Countryside, based on lively traditional Flemish folk melodies.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
- Maryland: IV
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Contra Costa Wind Symphony (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (Brad Hogarth, conductor) - 12 March 2023
- University of North Dakota (Grand Forks) University Band (James Popejoy, conductor) - 11 October 2022
- Towson (Md.) University Wind Ensemble (Christopher Cicconi, conductor) - 16 March 2022
- Gold Coast Wind Ensemble (Ventura County, Calif.) - 23 November 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
All Wind Works
- Across the Great Plains (2017)
- After the Darkness (2021)
- Albany Fanfare (2011)
- All Things So Wondrous (2022)
- Antiphon (2011)
- Battle Command
- Big Bend (2023)
- The Blue Orchid (2005)
- Blue Sky (2002)
- But Joy Comes... (2010)
- Captain Dane (2003)
- Carnegie Anthem (2012)
- Carpathia (2007)
- Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Caverns of Sonora (2019)
- Chisholm
- Congolese (2017)
- Corps of Discovery (2010)
- Country Day Dances (2004)
- Courtlandt County Festival (2004)
- Credo (2012)
- Curtain Up!
- Dances Americanesque (2008)
- Declaration and Dance (2010)
- Destined to Fly (2018)
- Egyptique (2010)
- The Eighth Day (2022)
- El Pato Loco (2010)
- El Vaquero! (2017)
- Every Day New (2018)
- Excelsior! (2008)
- Exhaltations! (2006)
- Fandango Caliente (2017)
- Fantasia on "Adeste Fidelis" (as arranger) (2007)
- Festive Proclamation (2015)
- Flourishes! (2019)
- Flourishes! (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Great Wall (2016)
- Hark! (A Holiday Celebration) (As arranger)
- Heavenwards (2015)
- Heroes Triumphant (2012)
- Hopak! (2014)
- In Autumn (2009)
- In Joyful Celebration (2003)
- In This Beautiful Place (2023)
- Ironclads (The Monitor and the Merrimack) (2012)
- Journey of the Bonfire (2017)
- Jupiter (as arranger) (1916/2006)
- Kamehameha (2006)
- Kitty Hawk, 1903 (2010)
- Krakatoa (2008)
- Maesong (2004)
- Mars (as arranger) (1916/2009)
- The Mighty 97th (2008)
- New Horizons March (2016)
- Of Gentle Spirit
- Paintings (2011)
- Paradise Awaiting... (2017)
- Quicksilver (2018)
- Resplendence (2017)
- Silversides (2021)
- The Southern Dawn (1998/2002)
- Spit-Fire (2013)
- Struck by the Ree (2023)
- Summit Fanfare (2008)
- The Tahoka Galop (2004)
- Tangelridge (2009)
- Tambora! (2013)
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Terracotta (2009)
- Three Scottish Vistas (2007)
- To Her Majesty's Delight (2020)
- Tudor Sketches (2013)
- Tundra (2018)
- Wedgwood March (2002)
- The Wings of Mercury
- With Valor and Brave Heart (2011)
- The World's Greatest Show! (2022)
- Yonaguska (2016)
- Zia (2014)
Resources
- William Owens website Accessed 29 August 2021