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Slumber, My Darling
Stephen Foster (arr. Brant Karrick)
General Info
Year: 1862 / 2004
Duration: c. 6:35
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Song
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00; (digital) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
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
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
With music and lyrics both composed by Stephen Foster in 1862, its elegantly simple and lyrical melody allows for a variety of colors and textures including low woodwinds, predominant melodic material played by low brass and low woodwinds, solo voices, and flowing counterpoint. The contrasting interlude includes short quotes of other Foster songs and should carry the listener, not to sleep, but into a realm of exuberance and gratitude.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the Evergreen High School Band, Metamora, Ohio, Chris Lyons, Director.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Kansas: III
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Kent (Ohio) State University Symphony Band (John Fanjlin, conductor) - 8 October 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Foster Songs Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Syler) (1854/2020)
All Wind Works
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Fantastic Foster (arr. Harnsberger) (2010)
- Foster Songs Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Goto)
- Gentle Annie (arr. Baller)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Syler) (1854/2020)
- Jeanie (1854)
- Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. Harvey) (1854/1990)
- My Old Kentucky Home
- My Old Kentucky Home (arr. Cowherd) (1853/1984)
- My Old Kentucky Home (arr. Pottag) (1853/1941)
- Old Folks at Home
- Slumber, My Darling (arr. Karrick) (1862/2004)
- Slumber, My Darling (arr. Windham) (1862/2001)
- Stephen Foster Revisited (arr. Holcombe) (1991)
- Stephen Foster Songbook (arr. Bulla) (1999)
- Swanee River
- Tribute to Stephen Foster, A (arr. Nestico) (1968)
- Variations on "My Old Kentucky Home" (arr. Ito) (1852/2010)
- Way Down upon the Swanee Ribber (arr. Safranek) (1914)