Song to the Moon

Antonín Dvořák

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Subtitle: From Rusalka

General Info

Year: 1901 /
Duration: c. 6:35
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: U.S. Navy Band
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

Song to the Moon is perhaps one of the most beautiful arias ever written for soprano voice. The aria takes place early in the first act of the opera Rusalka by Antonin Dvořák. The protagonist, Rusalka, is a water nymph who falls in love with a human prince she views swimming in her lake. As a water nymph, she is invisible to humans, so she prays to the rising moon in a heart-wrenching aria to reveal her love to the human.

- Program Note from U.S. Navy Band concert program, May 2015

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State Ratings

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Performances

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New England Conservatory (Boston, Mass.) Symphonic Winds (William Drury, conductor) - 25 February 2020
U.S. Navy Band (Washington, D.C.) (Brian Walden, conductor; Susan Kavinski, soprano) – May 2015 (Manassas, Va.)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

New World Breakdown (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kiefer) (1893/2013/2020)

All Wind Works

Adagio - Allegro Molto from "Symphony No 9" (arr. Johnson) (2015)
Allegro con brio from "Symphony No. 8" (arr. Hartman) (1889/2013)
Carnival Overture (arr. Clarke) (1891/1922?)
Carnival Overture (arr. Mayes) (1891/2019)
Carnival Overture (tr. Patterson) (1891/2023)
Carnival Overture (arr. Schyns) (1891/2012)
Carnival Overture (tr. Steiger) (1891/1982)
Carnival Overture (tr. Walker; ed. Yeago) (1891/2000)
Czech Suite (arr. Sheen) (1879/1988)
Festival March (arr. Bourgeois) (1879/2012)
Festmusik (arr. Woodley) (1901/2007)
Finale from "New World Symphony" (tr. Hindsley) (1893)
Finale from "Symphony No. 9" (tr. Buckley) (1893/2018)
Finale from "Symphony No. 9" (tr. Leidzén) (1893/1936)
Finale Excerpts, "Symphony No 9" (arr. Daehn) (1893/2010)
Finale Symphony No. VIII (scored Schaefer) (1889/1980)
Four Slavonic Dances (arr. Spink) (1886)
Goin' Home (arr. Villanueva) (1893/1996)
The Golden Spinning Wheel (tr. Johnson) (1896/2018)
Humoresque (arr. Glover) (1894/2017)
Largo (arr. Safranek) (1893/1912)
Largo and Finale for Band (from the New World Symphony) (arr. Blahnik) (1893)
Largo and Finale for Brass Choir (from the New World Symphony) (1893)
Largo and Scherzo from "Symphony No 9 in E minor, Opus 95" (tr. Kappey) (1893/1903)
Largo from "New World Symphony" (arr. Williams) (1893/2007)
Legends, Op. 59, Nos. 1 - 5 (arr. Thompson) (1881/2019)
New World Breakdown (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kiefer) (1893/2013/2020)
Psalm of Praise (arr. Gardner) (1874/1966)
Selections from "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46 (tr. Curnow) (1878/)
Serenade, opus 22 (arr. Moehlmann) (1967)
Serenade in D minor (1878)
Slavonic Dance No. 5 (tr. Curnow)
Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 46 (arr. Linklater) (1878/)
Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 46 (arr. Longfield) (1878/2001)
Slavonic Dance No. 3, Op 46 (arr. Safranek) (1878/1912)
Slavonic Dance, Op 46 No 7 for Woodwind Choir (1878/1999)
Slavonic Dance No 7, Op 46 (arr. Pyter) (1878/2020)
Slavonic Dance No 8, Op 46 (tr. Balent) (1878/2010)
Slavonic Dance No. 8, Op. 46 (arr. Longfield) (1878/1991)
Slavonic Dance No. 8, Op. 46 (arr. Harnsberger) (1878/2004)
Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/2001)
Slavonic Dance No 1, Op 72 (arr. Tobani) (1886/1929)
Slavonic Dance No 3, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/2003)
Slavonic Dance No 4, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/1996)
Slavonic Dance No 4 (arr. Sebesky) (1970)
Slavonic Dance No 6, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/2002)
Slavonic Dance No 7, Op 72 (tr. Amis) (1886/1996)
Slavonic Dances, The (tr. Curnow) (1878/1984)
Slavonic Dances (arr. Johnson) (1878/1960)
Slavonic March (arr. Longfield) (1878/2017)
Slawischer Tanz Nr. 4 (arr. Goldhammer) (1878/1995)
Symphony No. 8: Finale (arr. Schaefer). See: Finale Symphony No. VIII
Symphony No. 9: Finale (arr. Harnsberger) (1893/1999)
Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement (arr. Bělohoubek) (1893/)
Song to the Moon (orch. Silbert) (1901/)
Themes from "New World Symphony" (arr. Sweeney) (1893)
Three Slavonic Dances (arr. Hanna)
Two Biblical Songs for Symphonic Wind Band (arr. Grotenhuis) (1894/2003)

Resources

Rusalka (opera), Wikipedia Accessed 12 September 2020