Statue

From Wind Repertory Project
Ivan Tcherepnin

Ivan Tcherepnin


This work bears the designation n. 43.


General Info

Year: 1986
Duration: c. 14:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Edition Peters
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental


Movements

1. Fanfare - 4:19
2. Canzona – Gagaku – America – 10:30


Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II-III
English Horn
Bassoon I-II-III
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Tuba
Harp
Celeste
Timpani
Percussion, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Cowbell
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Marimba
  • Side Drum
  • Snare Drum
  • Tambourines (2)
  • Tom-tom
  • Vibraphone


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

Statue was one of three compositions commissioned and performed by Robert Austin Boudreau and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in celebration of the 100th anniversary and rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. The piece is tied together using various combinations of whole tone, octatonic, and pentatonic scales with some modal mixture and motivic transformation of the main melodies explored in each movement.

The first movement, Fanfare, is loosely based on the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, and the French national anthem, La Marseillaise. Fragments of each anthem are heard throughout, appearing as augmented fifth fanfares, jazzy hemiolas, a quasi-bolero, and a variety of seventh chords, all possibly depicting images of the surrounding landscape of New York harbor.

The second movement, Canzona, is loosely based on the tune America, the Beautiful, referencing the subtitle America, and can be considered a melting pot of various musical forms. The movement begins and returns to a canzona rhythm from the French Renaissance featuring a homophonic rhythm of one long and two short. In the flowing middle section are rising pentatonic scales in a nod to the gagaku scales (meaning elegant music) from the Japanese Kyoto Imperial Palace between 800 and 1200, which were imported from imperial China through official diplomatic delegations. Most settings of America, the Beautiful feature an orchestration filled with warm and lush harmonies such as the famous Carmen Dragon arrangement. Tcherepnin casts this movement as a heroic musical struggle, referencing the subtitle of Beethoven, moving between warm and lush harmonies and painful motivic transformations of falling half-steps, glissandos created by a mixture of whole and half steps, and oscillating woodwinds before reaching a heroic end on a C major ninth chord.

– Program Note by Brad Jopek


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State Ratings

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Performances

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  • University of Maryland (College Park) Wind Orchestra (Bradley Jopek, conductor) - 20 April 2023
  • The American Wind Symphony Orchestra (Little Falls, N.Y) (Robert Boudreau, conductor) – 9 June 1986 *Premiere Performance*


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