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Rumor of a Secret King, The (arr. Blegen)
John Mackey (arr. Ian Blegen)
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General Info
Year: 2017 / 2018 / 2020
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: SATB choir
Publisher: Ian Blegen
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
Horn in F I-VIII
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece is about power in flux. The skittering rush of a rumor through a crowd is rendered in nonsense syllables; a long, lyrical line is overlaid, using text that evokes Handel’s Zadok the Priest, the traditional coronation hymn, replacing the jubilation of Handel’s anthem with ambivalence and anxiety. A new world is a promise and a threat: What will become of us?
And all the people will
Will all the people
Rejoice? Rejoice!
A new king comes
God save the king
The kingdom
His will be done
His will will be done
Alleluia?
Alleluia
- Program note by A. E. Jaques
Though in translation to an instrumental arrangement the text itself is lost, this rhythmically driven piece still reflects the original intention. With articulated ostinato patterns layered with long, lyrical phrases and plenty of Mackey's trademark tension and release figures, Rumor of a Secret King is a masterpiece in contrast.
- Program Note by arranger
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Antique Violences (2017)
- Asphalt Cocktail (2009)
- Aurora Awakes (2009)
- Clocking (2007)
- Concerto for Soprano Sax and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Damn (1998)
- A deep reverberation fills with stars (2022)
- Divine Mischief (2022)
- Drum Music: Concerto for Percussion (2011)
- Fanfare for Full Fathom Five (2015)
- Foundry (2011)
- The Frozen Cathedral (2012)
- Harvest: Concerto for Trombone (2009)
- High Wire (2012)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (2010)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (arr. Wallace) (2010/2021)
- Kingfishers Catch Fire (2007)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (2020/2021)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Lightning Field (2015)
- Liminal (2016)
- Mom Song
- The Night Garden (2017)
- Night on Fire. See: The Soul Has Many Motions
- Places we can no longer go (2018)
- (redacted) (2013)
- Redline Tango (2004)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (2017/2018)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (arr. Blegen) (2017/2018/2020)
- Sacred Spaces (2019)
- Sasparilla (2005)
- Sheltering Sky (2012)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Snarl (2018)
- Some treasures are heavy with human tears (2021)
- Songs from the End of the World (2015)
- The Soul Has Many Motions (2013)
- Night on Fire (2013)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Strange Humors (2006)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- Strange Humors (saxophone ensemble) (2006/2021)
- This Cruel Moon (2014/2017)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Turbine (2006)
- Turning (2007)
- Undertow (2008)
- Until the Scars (2014/2019)
- Venomous Devices (2023)
- Wine-Dark Sea (2014)
- Xerxes (2010)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Ian Blegen website Accessed 18 October 2020
- John Mackey website