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Stone Images
Subtitle: Four Short Pieces for Band
General Info
Year: 1975
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Theodore Presser Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00
Movements
1. Pylon
2. Sculpture
3. Quarry
4. Pyramid
Instrumentation
Approximate Realization:
40 Individual Parts
- 22 Woodwinds
- 16 upper woodwinds
- 6–8 saxes and low woodwinds
- 14 Brass
- 4 Percussion
NB - some overlap between woodwind and brass allowed for range/instrumentation considerations. Suggested instruments are listed on parts ranked in order of preference. Parts can have multiple players. If doubling, director should attempt to stay within families, yet contrast the timbre (ex. flute with 1st clarinet).
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Stonehenge, Tenochtitlan, Knossos and Angkor -- vast ceremonial ruins -- huge, never-changing, yet constantly different. The static, frozen musical sounds attempt to evoke these mammoth shapes.
Stone Images is the fourth in a series of "megalithic" compositions that bring together basic instrumental training with the customs of the serious contemporary composer.
The instrumental parts of this work employ restricted ranges and very limited technical demands. Players are therefore free to give maximum attention to the dynamics and to their place with the ensemble timbres.
Each instrument in the ensemble is given one concert pitch only to play during each movement: this note changes for each of the four movements. The pitches assigned to the players are given on the score at the beginning of every movement, in a scalar order. The part numbers for each individual player are given above every note. Therefore, the required transpositions and intonation can easily be reviewed by the director.
- Program Note excerpted from score
Dedicated to the Greater Rochester Youth Wind Ensemble, Donald Hunsberger, Director.
- Program Note from score
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- Bach Variations (1977)
- Blocks (1977)
- Canonic Preludes (1997)
- Contemporary Primer, A (1972)
- Cortege (1975)
- Duae Cantatae Breves (1995)
- Echo Preludes (1983)
- ....Epiphanies.... (1993)
- Meliora! (2020)
- Monumentum pro umbris (2002)
- Monolith (1974)
- November Voices
- Palisade (1974)
- Pillar (1974)
- Stone Images (1975)
- Symphony No. 2 (1974-1982)
- Symphony No. 7 (1992)
- Symphony No. 9. See: ....Epiphanies....
- Symphony No. 10 (2011)
- Tower (1974)
Resources
- Hodkinson, S. (1975). Stone Images : Four Short Pieces for Band [score]. Merion Music : Bryn Mawr, Penn.