We Praise Thy Name
General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: 4:30
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Twin Towers Music Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $45.00 | Score Only - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbals
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
We Praise Thy Name is a chorale prelude based on the hymn "Holy God We Praise Thy Name" (Grosser Gott). The composition is a spiritual search that everyone experiences sometime in their life. The song starts joyfully as the search begins. As the composition's development begins, you can hear confusion and self doubt. This is accomplished by several twists and turns of the melody using various motivic fragments. At the height of self-doubt, the hymn is stated in the key of B major (a severe departure from the tonic key of F major), and presented in 4/4 time, so the overall feel of the hymn is thrown a little off. Slowly, through the use of more melodic fragments, the melody is finally restated back in the tonic key. By using pedal points, the excitement builds up to the final statement in m. 166, representing a joyful end to this journey.
I would like to dedicate this composition to Dr. Mona Rasmussen, who was my spiritual teacher through a tough time in my life. She helped me see the way and for that, I will be eternally grateful.
- Program Note by Brian Rhodes
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Arkansas Post March
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- Away in a Manger (as arranger)
- Ballo Matto (2009)
- Beast Mode
- Bluff Creek March
- Brain Goo (2009)
- CBCS March
- Chase in the Wild
- The Choctaw Rocket
- Chorale and Celebration (2005)
- Christmas Concert 2 for 1
- Chuck Goes Latin
- Clean Burn
- Conspiracy Theory
- Discombobulated
- Dream Song
- Elegy for Band (2002)
- Endgame
- Espionage
- Faith and Country
- Fanfare and Theme on Chester
- Fanfare and Theme: Independence Forever
- Fanfare and Theme: O Sanctissima
- Fort Hood March
- The Garden
- The Gauntlet
- Heroic March
- The HMS Gibralter
- Icefire
- Interludium
- Introspective Variations (2002)
- Its Alive!
- Jenkins Ferry March
- Joyful Variations
- Jungle Trip
- K9 Variants
- Kyrie Eleison: From Missa de Angelis
- Liberty and Justice
- Living Space
- Lyric Meditation
- March Intrepid
- March to the Arches
- March to the Sea
- Meditation: Veni Creator Spiritus
- Military Parade
- Monticello March
- Moose
- The Nile
- Norfork Lake
- Petite Quatour
- Prayer for Peace
- Primitive Episodes (1997)
- Prologue
- Ritmo Della Terra
- Robots Unite
- Roundabout
- Sailor's Story
- Saline River Adventure
- Seize the Day
- Shooz N Stuff
- Simplice
- Skyline Fanfare and Theme
- Soundscape: Conditor Alme Siderum
- Summer Celebration
- Symphony No. 92: First Movement (as transcriber) (1789/2006)
- Tapestry
- Technical Foul
- Tennyson Park (1997)
- Thingamachine
- Upgrade
- Warp Drive
- We Praise Thy Name (2005)
- With Faith and Courage