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Two Biblical Songs for Symphonic Wind Band
Antonín Dvořák (arrangement by Dale Grotenhuis)
General Info
Year: 1894
Duration: c. 4:15
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alliance Publications
Cost: Score & Parts - $50.00 | Score Only - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo E-flat Alto Saxophone
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
French Horn I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Baritone
Tuba
String Bass
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Two Biblical Songs for Alto Saxophone solo and symphonic wind band by Dale Grotenhuis is an arrangement of two songs from Antonín Dvořák's Biblical Songs, Op. 99, originally composed for solo voice and piano. In 1894, during his stay in New York, Dvořák (1841-1904) wrote a series of ten settings of texts from the Book of Psalms a month after the death of Hans Von Bulow, the famous conductor and Dvorak's close friend and admirer. During this same time, Dvořák's eighty year old father was very ill in Bohemia and died two days after the Biblical Songs were completed. Being a man of deep faith, Antonín Dvořák wrote this cycle of songs while he experienced the grief he felt at the loss of his father and his close friend.
This arrangement by Grotenhuis utilizes a solo alto saxophone for the vocal line accompanied by the woodwinds and brass without the use of percussion. The first movement, God is My Shepherd (based on Psalm 23), is a slow paced meditative work. The second movement, I Will Sing New Songs of Gladness, completes the set in a contrasting joyful tempo with a gladness for the gift of life.
Program Note from Published Score
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State Ratings
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Performances
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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
- Dunker, Amy. Analysis of Two Biblical Songs