Water Music

Malcolm Arnold

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This work bears the designation Opus 82.

General Info

Year: 1964 / 1993
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Novello, through Wise Music Classical
Cost: Score and Parts - $100.00 | Score Only - $25.00

Movements

1. Allegro Maestoso
2. Andantino
3. Vivace

Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute l-ll
Oboe l-ll
Bassoon l-ll
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Tuba
Percussion I-II

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Orchestra Bells
Snare Drum
Tam-Tam

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

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Media

Audio CD: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble (Clark Rundell, conductor).

State Ratings

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Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Brass Quintet No. 2 (1987)
Concerto for Oboe and Strings (arr. Watts) (1952)
Divertimento for Wind Octet (1988)
English Dances, Book One (tr. Johnstone) (1950/1965)
English Dances, Book Two (tr. Herbert) (1951/1989)
English Dances, Book Two (tr. Sudduth)
English Dances Set 2 (tr. Thompson)
Fanfare for a Festival (arr. McDermott) (1955/1986/2000)
Fanfare for Louis, 1970
Four Cornish Dances (tr. Marciniak)
Four Scottish Dances (tr. Paynter) (1957/1978)
Four Welsh Dances (tr. Parkes)
A Grand, Grand Overture (tr. Wilson)
H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge (1957)
The Inn of Sixth Happiness (arr. Suzuki) (1958/)
March from "A Little Suite" (arr. Sumner) (1955/1965)
Overseas
Overture for Wind Octet (1940/2004)
The Padstow Lifeboat, op. 94
Peterloo Overture (tr. Sayre)
Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (tr. Paynter) (1963/1979)
Quintet for Two Trumpets, Horn, Trombone and Tuba (1961/2004)
River Kwai March, The (1957)
Sarabande and Polka from Solitaire (tr. Paynter)
Symphony for Brass, op. 123
Symphony No. 2: Allegretto and Vivace, op. 40 (tr. Parkes)
Symphony No. 2: Finale, op. 40 (tr. Sudduth)
Tam O'Shanter Overture, op. 51 (tr. Paynter)
Three Sea Shanties (1943)
Trevelyan Suite, op. 96
Variations on a Theme of Ruth Gipps (trans. Braddock) (1978/2019)
Water Music, op. 82

Resources

Arnold, M. (1993). Water Music: [op. 82] [score]. Novello: London.
Sir Malcolm Arnold website