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Romanza (Curnow)
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General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Curnow Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Romanza was commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Lewis Buckley's directorship of the MetWinds of Lexington, Mass.
The Italian term romanza is often described as a solo instrumental composition with ensemble accompaniment that contains both a technical and expressive mood. Romanza, in this instance, is designed to feature a solo trumpet with wind symphony in a kaleidoscope of musical color, technical dexterity and musical expression for both the soloist and the wind symphony.
The composer has developed several sketches (variations) on an old and beautiful English (sometimes credited as being English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh) folk melody, O Waley, Waley, in an effort to imitate the old style of theme and variation solo compositions from the past centuries, but with new harmonic and rhythm interest. In the past, the variations have been short and concise while using the same musical material between each variation.
O Whaley, Whaley has most often been associated with the texts The Water is Wide and Amazing Grace, but here the composer has chosen to capture the passion, tenderness, yet sadness of the original love song text, when the tune is finally presented in the middle of the composition.
- Program Note from MetWinds concert program, 30 April 2017
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- MetWinds (Lexington, Mass.) (James O'Dell, conductor; Lewis J. Buckley, trumpet) - 30 April 2017 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Amber Waves of Grain (Flex instrumentation) (1994)
- Canticum (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
- Fanfare and Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (1995/2013)
- Korean Folk Rhapsody (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
- Nathan Hale Trilogy (Flex instrumentation) (1990/2013)
- Renaissance Suite (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (c.1551/1983/2016)
- Valdres (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2015)
All Wind Works
- African Sketches (1992)
- Album for the Young (Op. 39) (as arranger) (1878/2007)
- Amber Waves of Grain (1994)
- Amber Waves of Grain (Flex instrumentation) (1994)
- Appalachian Dances (2008)
- Apple Island Legend (1997)
- Beyond the Stars
- Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (as arranger) (1985)
- Blazon (1997)
- Bridge of the Gods (2012)
- Canadian Sketches (1996)
- Canterbury Coronation (1996)
- Canticle at Christmastide (2006)
- Canticle of the Creatures (1984)
- Canticum (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
- The Carnival of the Animals (as arranger) (1886/2008)
- Celebration Fanfare
- Celebration (1994)
- Ceremonial Flourishes (1988)
- Chinese Folk Fantasy (2013)
- Christmas Classics (1993)
- Christmas Fancies (2000)
- Christmas Flourish, A (1998)
- Christmas Prelude (as arranger) (1989)
- Christmas Travelogue (as arranger)
- Classical Suite for Piano and Band (as arranger) (2006)
- Concertino for Tuba and Band (1978/2001)
- Concertpiece (1990)
- Concertpiece for Clarinet, Winds and Percussion (1990)
- Dance Episodes (2006)
- Day at the Circus, A (1998)
- Day at the Museum, A (1997)
- Day in Space, A
- Dialogues for Saxophone Quartet, Winds and Percussion (2005)
- Dimensions of Seven
- Dublin Sketches
- Fanfare and Flourishes (1995)
- Fanfare and Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (1995/2013)
- Fanfare for Christmas (2004)
- Fanfare for Spartacus (1996)
- Fanfare Prelude: "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" (1999)
- Fanfare Prelude on "God of Our Fathers" (1876/1983)
- Fanfare Prelude on "Joy to the World" (1985)
- Fantasia di Falcone
- Fantasy on a Colonial Air
- Festive Fanfare for the Holidays (2006)
- Festivity (1993)
- Festivo Fantastico (1998)
- Fiddle Tunes (as arranger) (2002)
- Finale for a Winter Festival (2004)
- Folk Dances (as arranger (1942/2000)
- Freedom Road (1994)
- Freedom's Song (2009)
- French Christmas Carol Fantasy (1989)
- Golliwog's Cakewalk (as arranger)
- Guadalcanal March (as arranger) (1952/1989)
- Heroic Tribute (2006)
- Illini Fantasy (2006)
- In Storm and Sunshine (as arranger) (1884/1986)
- In the Valley of the Sun (2013)
- International Christmas Salute (1996)
- Inventions from the Sacred Harp (2005)
- Irish Legends (1994)
- Journey (2009)
- Jubilee (2012)
- Kentucky Kaleidoscope
- Korean Folk Rhapsody (1988)
- Korean Folk Rhapsody (Flex instrumentation) (1988/2011)
- Land of Tomorrow (2010)
- Lion of Lucerne (1986)
- Lone Star Celebration (1995)
- Megaforce (1997)
- Midway March (as arranger)
- Moment in Time, A
- Mutanza (1981)
- Nathan Hale Trilogy (1990)
- Nathan Hale Trilogy (Flex instrumentation) (1990/2013)
- Nexus (2015)
- Nulli Secundus (Curnow)
- Nutcracker Suite (as arranger) (1891/1987)
- Overture to a Winter Festival (1995)
- Peter and the Wolf (as arranger) (1936/1986)
- Praetorius Variations
- Prelude and Celebration (1996)
- Prelude on a Hymn of Praise (1996)
- Prelude on Lobe Den Herren (1982/1997)
- The Promise of Living (as arranger) (1954/2012)
- Quintessence
- Rejouissance (1988)
- Renaissance Festival (as arranger) (2008)
- Renaissance Suite (as arranger) (c.1551/1983)
- Renaissance Suite (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (c.1551/1983/2016)
- Rhapsody for Euphonium and Band (1978/1999)
- Rhapsody on American Shaped Note Melodies (1996)
- Romanza (2017)
- Russian Christmas Music (as arranger) (1944/1990)
- Russian Folk Fantasy (1992)
- Sea to Shining Sea (2006)
- Seacliffe Overture (1983)
- Selections from "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46 (as transcriber) (1878/)
- Selections from "Suite of Old American Dances" (as arranger) (1950/2005)
- Selections from Walt Disney's "Fantasia" (1992)
- Slavonic Dances, The (as transcriber)
- Songs of the West (as arranger) (1907/1986)
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice (as arranger) (1897)
- Sovereign Variants
- Spirit of the Pioneers (2007)
- Suite from "Messiah" (as transcriber) (1741/1989)
- Suncatcher (2000)
- Symphonic Chorale for Band (1989)
- Symphonic Suite from "The Right Stuff" (as arranger) (1983/1984)
- Symphonic Triptych (1978)
- Symphonic Variants (1998)
- Three Colonial Ballads (as arranger)
- The Three Drummers (2004)
- Toward the Sunrising (1999)
- Turkish March (as arranger) (1809/2001)
- Valdres (arr Curnow) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2016)
- Valdres (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1904/1985/2015)
- Vanguard (2003)
- Voluntary on Old Hundreth (as transcriber) (/2000)
- A Wexford Reverie (as arranger) (2005)
- When the Morning Stars Sang (2005)
- Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew (1993)
- Winds of Change
Resources
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