Wood Notes
William Grant Still (trans. Stan Mauldin)
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General Info
Year: 1948 / 1959 / 2022
Duration: c. 2:15
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Small orchestra
Publisher: William Grant Still Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Movements
1. Singing River
2. Autumn Night
3. Moon Dusk
4. Whippoorwill's Shoes
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Inspired by William Grant Still’s love of nature and K. Mitchell Pilcher’s poetry, Wood Notes is a four-movement orchestral suite. Still’s classic American style is woven into the fabric of this suite, with warm melodies and rich textures creating a truly pleasing suite of music. The work premiered in 1948 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
- Program Note by Alex Burns
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Spring ISD (Houston, Tx.) Alumni Band (Trent Cooper, conductor) - 22 December 2022 (2022 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Africa: Land of Superstition (arr. Tam)
- Afro-American Symphony for Band (arr. West Point Military Academy) (1930/1970)
- Afro-American Symphony. See also: Symphony No. 1
- Scherzo from "The Afro-American Symphony" (1930/1970)
- The American Scene (1957)
- Choreographic Prelude (arr. Lloyd) (1970)
- Dances in the Canebrakes (as orchestrator; arr. Brown) (1953/)
- Entrances of the Porteuses (arr. Perna; ed. Lloyd)
- Fanfare for American War Heroes (arr. Lloyd) (1942 / )
- Fanfare for the 99th Fighter Squadron
- Folk Suite for Band (1966)
- Frisco Jazz Band Blues (1919)
- From the Delta (1945)
- The Hesitating Blues (as arranger) (1916)
- Kaintuck' (tr. Perna) (1935)
- Land of Peace
- Little Folk Suite from the Western Hemisphere
- Little Red Schoolhouse (arr. Steele) (1957/1977)
- Miniatures (1963)
- Old California
- Rising Tide. See: Victory Tide
- "Scherzo" for Band. See: Afro-American Symphony for Band
- Song of the City. See: Victory Tide
- Summerland: From Three Visions (arr. Teter) (1937/2013)
- Summerland: For Wind Ensemble (arr. Teter) (1937/2013)
- Symphony No. 1 (1931/1946)
- Symphony No. 1. See also: Afro-American Symphony for Band
- To You, America! (1952/1956)
- Victory Tide (1939/1942/1945)
- Wood Notes (arr. Mauldin) (1948/1959/2022)
Resources
- "William Grant Still: Wood Notes." Classicalexburns. Web. Accessed 15 December 2022