Symphony No. 1 (Paxton)
Subtitle: Variations on a Theme by R. Murray Schafer
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Creative Spirit Music Publications
Cost: Score (print) - $5.00; (digital) - Free
Movements
1. Be silent for a long time, then make a sound
2. Let a sound grow out of the sounds you already hear, then sink back into the silence
3. Improvise to these words of painter Wassily Kandinsky
4. Repeat a word a dozen times
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Any combination and number of instruments.
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Steven Paxton’s Symphony #1 is an open-form composition for ensembles of any size, with any instruments, or with no instruments whatsoever. It draws freely upon, with respect and admiration, the work of composer, philosopher, acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schafer.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Process Piece Pauline (2004)
- Symphony No. 1 (2014)
- Tlok (1974)
All Wind Works
- Bamboula (as transcriber) (1844-45/2020)
- A Christmas Carol (as transcriber) (1922/2016)
- Concerto IV (Alto Saxophone and Percussion Ensemble) (as transcriber; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
- Concerto IV (Alto Saxophone, Piano and Percussion Ensemble) (as transcriber; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
- Concerto IV (Flute and Percussion Ensemble) (as transcriber; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
- Concerto IV (Flute, Piano and Percussion Ensemble) (as transcriber; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
- Concerto IV (Soprano Saxophone and Percussion Ensemble) (as transcriber; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
- Concerto IV (Soprano Saxophone, Piano and Percussion Ensemble) (as transcriber; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
- Fare Thee Well Fantasy (2015)
- Four Eccentric Songs (as transcriber) (1922/2016)
- HIRI Chants (1985/2014)
- Kyrie (as transcriber) (1980/2015)
- Le Bananier (Saxophone Quartet) (as transcriber) (1846/2016)
- Le Bananier (Wind Ensemble) (as transcriber) (1846/2016)
- Old Fashioned Hymns (as transcriber) (1922/2016)
- Pasquinade (Saxophone Quartet) (as transcriber) (1869/2020)
- Pasquinade (Wind Ensemble) (as transcriber) (1869/2016)
- Process Piece Pauline (2004)
- Raindance (1987/2014)
- Romanza (as transcriber) (c. 1865-1873/2020)
- A Scene and a Song from As You Like It (1991)
- Symphony for Band (as editor) (1956/1962/2018)
- Symphony No. 1 (2014)
- Three Nocturnes (as transcriber) (1919/2015)
- Tlok (1974)
- Waltz Interlude (Chamber Ensemble) (1995)
- Waltz Interlude (Wind Ensemble) (1995)
Resources
- R. Murray Schafer, Wikipedia. Accessed 10 February 2021