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Snow White Overture
Frank Churchill (arr. Erik Leidzen)
General Info
Year: 1941
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Irving Berlin, Inc.
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
For availability information, see Discussion tab, above.
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
D-flat Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Bass Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion
(Percussion instrumentation undifferentiated in score)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Incorporating the music of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Program Note from score
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film.
Snow White is a lonely princess living with her stepmother, a vain Queen. The Queen worries that Snow White will look better than she, so she forces Snow White to work as a scullery maid and asks her Magic Mirror daily "who is the fairest one of all". For years the mirror always answers that the Queen is, pleasing her. One day, the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow White is now "the fairest" in the land.
Snow White was nominated for Best Musical Score at the Academy Awards in 1938, and the next year, producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar for the film. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films, and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- Bambi's Theme (arr. Kraeydonck) (1999)
- Selections from "Peter Pan" (arr. Duthoit) (1953/)
- Snow White Overture (arr. Leidzen) (1941)
- Someday My Prince will Come (arr. Mashima) (1937/2000)
- Whistle While You Work
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? (arr. Yoder) (1933/1941)
Resources
- Churchill, F.; Leidzén, E. (1941). Snow White Overture [score]. Irving Berlin, Inc.: New York.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (film), Wikipedia Accessed 1 September 2019