Salomon
Subtitle: Leyenda Africana (African legend)
General Info
Year: 2006 / 2010
Duration: c. 15:15
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ibermúsica, through Music Shop Europe
Cost: Score and Parts - €268.21 | Score Only - €56.07
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Clarinet
B-flat 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
B-flat Flugelhorn I-II
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Piano (or Synthesizer)
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongo
- Cabasa
- Claves
- Conga
- Crush Cymbal
- Darbuka (or High Bongo)
- Djembe
- Finger Cymbal (3)
- Glockenspiel
- Jingles of Stone or Wood
- Marimba
- Rainstick
- Shequere (or Cabasa)
- Sizzle Cymbal
- Sleigh Bell
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam
- Temple Blocks
- Thundersheet
- Tom-tom
- Triangle
- Tubular Bell
- Wood Block
- Wind Chime
- Wind Machine
- Whip
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This work was inspired in an African legend: the romance that took place between Solomon and the Queen of Saba.
Many years ago, there was a beautiful woman who reigned in the lands of the east Africa . She received word of a king who governed his subjects with a proverbial wisdom and sense of the justice: Solomon. His fame was such that the Queen of Saba decided to travel to Jerusalem to meet him. She prepared an extravagant expedition, crossed mountains and valleys, seas and deserted, until she arrived in the Middle East.
In person, the King Solomon was shown to be wise, just and intelligent as the legends had told. The latter, however, was not satisfied with Saba's emotional conquest.
They had a son. He wanted to return to Africa, which he did, taking in his caravan the Ark of the Covenant, which was deposited in the Temple of Jerusalem, containing timna Copper, jewels, gold from the Sudan and other precious metals. This was stolen by two of the members of his retinue.
When Solomon was informed of the robbery, he sent to its army after them who, even knowing that the Ark had been stolen, agreed to take it to his mother as present and ceased his pursuit.
The son of Solomon sent to build a temple in Axum, where the Ark and its treasures have rested ever since.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference Recording. Orquesta de Vientos Allegro, Valencia (Ferrer Ferran, conductor)
- Audio CD: Banda Primitiva de Paiporta (Ferrer Ferran, conductor) - 2009
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Orchestre d'Harmonie de Saint-Omer (Philippe Le Meur, conductor) - 23 July 2017 (World Music Contest 2017)
- Sinfonisches Blasorchester Bitburg-Prüm (Rainer Serwe, conductor) - 14 July 2013 (World Music Contest 2013)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Sonatur (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
All Wind Works
- 24 Horas Deportivas (2019)
- Abu Simbel (2009)
- Al Centenario (1998)
- Algemiz
- Ave Fénix (2020)
- Bravo, mestre! (1999)
- Canto a Unicef
- Castelo do Inferno
- Ceremonial
- Comic Overture (2001)
- Concert per a Orquesta de Vents I Procussió (2008)
- Concert No. 3 (2013)
- Concierto del Simún (1998)
- Concha Manzana (2018)
- Consuelo Ciscar (2003)
- Côte d'Or (1999)
- Desert Storm. See: Tormenta del Desierto
- Don Pajarita
- Dragut el Pirata (2018)
- Echo de la Montagne (2003)
- El Bosque Mágico (2002)
- El Brillo del Fénix (2020)
- El Coloso (2011)
- El Ingenioso Hidalgo (2005)
- El Misteri del Foc (2007)
- El Principito (2010)
- El Quijote (2015)
- El Rugir del Kimbo
- El Siervo de Yahvé (2010)
- Els Pecats Capitals (2004)
- En Un Lugar de la Mancha (2003)
- A Fairy Tale (2009/2012)
- Fuegos del Alma (2014)
- The Great Spirit (2010)
- Hydra Concerto (2001)
- IVAM (2007/2010)
- Jesús Chover (2019)
- Jordi Mayor (2019)
- Juana de Arco (2005)
- Jungla (2006)
- Junta Local Fallera de Cullera (2021)
- La Cuidad Sumergida. See: The Submerged City
- La Fallera (2017)
- La Inmortal (2000)
- La Passió de Crist (2001)
- La Rodana
- La Sombra del Cruzado (1997)
- La Torre de Hercules
- Las Aventuras del Principito (2010)
- Los Barbas (2012)
- Manolo Morla (2013)
- Mar i Bel (2000)
- Marta Alandete (2017)
- Miticaventura (2002)
- Musica i Poble (2000)
- Nelo el Sorlí (2014)
- O Camiño das Animas en Pena
- Olé Toronto (1998)
- Patricia Sanz (2022)
- Peter Pan (2016)
- Piccole Note (2016)
- Pinocchio (2007)
- Red Dragon
- Roberto Forés (2014)
- Salomón (2006)
- Santa Claus (2019)
- Sonatur (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- The Submerged City (2000)
- Symphony No. 1. See: Tormenta del Desierto
- Symphony No. 2. See: La Passio de Crist
- Symphony No. 3. See: The Great Spirit
- Symphony No. 4. See: El Coloso
- Tormenta del Desierto (1999)
- Tu Sueño (2010)
- Tyrannosaurus Rex (2012), from Bestiarium
- Xiquipirris
- Youth Funky (1998)
Resources
- Perusal Score
- "Salomón". Ferrer Ferran Website. Accessed 31 March 2022