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Shakata: Singing the World into Existence
Contents
General Info
Year: 1989
Duration: c. 8:15
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ludwing Music Inc.
Cost: Score and Parts - $95.00 | Score Only - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
Piano
String Bass
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bell Tree
- Bongos
- Cymbals (small and medium)
- Glockenspiel
- Go-Go Bells
- Gong (Tam-Tam, Medium and Large)
- High Hat
- Marimba
- Shaker
- Snare Drum
- Timbales
- Tom-Tom
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Australian Aboriginals believe that the countryside did not exist until the ancestors sang it, and that still, to be perceived, it must be conjured by descendants following ancestral songlines. In the West, we also speak of such things as "exorcising evil" and "bringing out the good in each one of us". Shakata; Singing the World Into Existence is a sort of collective ritual whereby the ensemble conjures up - from the earth, from within. The term "shakata" has no literal significance, thereby perhaps allowing it to become a translingual (or pre-lingual) intonement.
Program Note by Dana Wilson
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Ithaca College Wind Ensemble (Stephen Peterson, conductor)
- Audio CD: University of Texas at Arlington Wind Ensemble (Ray C. Lichtenwalter, conductor)
State Ratings
- New York: VI
Performances
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- Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) Concert Band (Thomas Duffy, conductor) – 13 April 2018
- State University of New York, Potsdam, Concert Band (Michael P. Schaff, conductor) – 28 February 2018
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 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)
- 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)
- Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
- To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
- Uprising (1995)
- Vortex (1999)
- When I Am Gone Away (2006)
Resources
- Dana Wilson website
- Ferrari, Lois. (2007). Two Symphonic Wind Ensemble Compositions of Dana Wilson: Piece of Mind, Shakata: Singing the World Into Existence Doctoral Paper.
