Solemn Fugue, A

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Clifton Williams

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General Info

Year: 1958 / 1997
Duration: C. 4:45
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co.
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

James Clifton Williams is regarded as one of the most influential composers of music for concert band in the twentieth century. His work captures an audience immediately. His unique sense of harmonic structuring is evident in Solemn Fugue, as its quiet beginning moves, layering and thickening, to a wonderfully complex multi-voiced conclusion.

- Program Note from publisher

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

Alabama: Class B
Florida: IV
Maryland: IV
New York: Concert Band IC
Tennessee: V
Virginia: IV

Performances

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San Mateo (Calif.) High School Symphonic Band 3 December 2014

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Variation Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Barber) (1962/2021)

All Wind Works

Academic Procession (1961)
Air Force Band of the West March (1965)
Anitra's Tanz (as arranger) (1875/1965)
Arioso (1958)
Caccia and Chorale (1976)
Castle Gap (1964)
Concertino (1960)
Dedicatory Overture (1964)
Dramatic Essay (1958)
Fanfare and Allegro (1956)
Festival (1962)
The Hermitage (1976)
Hill Country Ballad (1953)
Killian March (1968)
Laredo (1964)
March Lamar (1966)
Pandéan Fable (1970)
Pastorale (1957)
The Patriots (1970)
Postwar Prelude (1943/2012)
The Ramparts (1967)
The Sinfonians (1960)
A Solemn Fugue (1958)
Sonata Allegro (1949/2012)
Songs of Heritage (1976/1999)
Strategic Air Command (1964)
Symphonic Dance No. 1, "Comanche Ritual" (tr. McBeth) (1965/2013)
Symphonic Dance No. 2, "The Maskers" (1964/1968)
Symphonic Dance No. 3, "Fiesta" (1964/1967)
Symphonic Dance No. 4, "Square Dance"
Symphonic Dance No. 5, "New Generation" (1965/2013)
Symphonic Essays (1963/2013)
Symphonic Suite (1956)
Variation Overture (1962)
Variation Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Barber) (1962/2021)

Resources

Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Clifton Williams." Accessed 9 June 2017
Williams, C. (1958). Solemn Fugue [score]. Summy-Birchard: Evanston, Ill.