Tapor I
Subtitle: Processional for Band
This work bears the designation Opus 14.
General Info
Year: 1968
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: V
Publisher: C. F. Peters
Cost: Score and Parts - $38.50 | Score Only - $9.75
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A tapor is an Armenian congregational procession led by the priest. The earliest of the Hovhaness band compositions, Tapor No. 1 was composed while he was organist at St. James Armenian Church in Watertown, Massachusetts, and is written in the modal and contrapuntal styles that became features of Hovhaness’s music.
- Program Note by Keith Brion for liner notes for Naxos CD Alan Hovaness
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Rutgers Wind Ensemble (William Berz, conductor) - 2013
- Audio CD: Central Washington University Wind Ensemble (Larry Gookin, conductor) - 2018
Media
- Rutgers Wind Ensemble (William Berz, conductor)
- Central Washington University Wind Ensemble (Larry Gookin, conductor)
State Ratings
North Carolina- Grade IV
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.) Wind Ensemble - 13 November 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints Op. 211
- Glory to God, Op. 124
- Hymn to Yerevan Op. 83
- King Vahaken: Is There Survival? Op. 59
- Mountains and Rivers Without End Op. 225
- Prayer of St. Gregory (1946/1952/1972/2012)
- Requiem and Resurrection Op. 224 (1969)
- Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places
- Sharagan and Fugue (arr. Huelsmann) (1950/2008)
- Suite for Band Op. 15 (1948)
- Symphony No. 4, Op. 165 (1958)
- Symphony No. 7, "Nanga Parvat," Op. 178 (1959)
- Symphony No. 14, "Ararat," Op. 194 (1961)
- Symphony No. 17, Symphony for "Metal Orchestra," Op. 203 (1963)
- Symphony No. 20, "Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain," Op. 223 (1969)
- Symphony No. 23 (1972)
- Symphony No. 29 (1977)
- Symphony No. 53, "Star Dawn" (1983)
- Tapor No. 1 (1968)
- Tower Music, Op. 129
Resources
- Alan Hovhaness, Catalogue of Works Accessed 27 October 2020
- Alan Hovhaness: Retrospective of Music for Wind Band Accessed 27 October 2020
- Hovhaness, A. (1968). Tapor no. 1, for Band [score]. C.F. Peters: New York.