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You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing)
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General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 6:50
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Folk Song
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $145.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Chimes
- Claves
- Crash Cymbals
- Flexatone
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Mark Tree
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Vibra-slap
- Whip
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The song Waltzing Matilda has been called "the unofficial national anthem of Australia." Like most folksongs, the lyrics of Waltzing Matilda are based on actual events that took place during the Australian Sheepshearers Strike.
The song tells the story of a starving drifter who stole a sheep from his former master. When the owner of the sheep came to confront the drifter with three armed members of the Australian National Guard, rather than allow himself to be captured and hanged for the theft, the drifter jumped into the watering hole beside which he had camped. The weight of his knapsack caused him to drown, and it is rumored that his ghost still haunts the watering hole to this day.
In this setting of Waltzing Matilda, the composer has successfully attempted to communicate the actual story surrounding the song, rather than just a straightforward arrangement of a nice melody. Like the lyrics, the music takes a dark ominous turn near the middle of the piece, and at the end we are left with the voice of the drifter's ghost whispering to all those who pass by the location of his demise.
You’ll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) was commissioned by Aaron Burgess and the E.O. Smith High School Band of Storrs, Conn.
- Program Note from Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.) Wind Ensemble concert program, 17 April 2018
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Alexander Kaminsky, conductor) - 20 December 2019 (2019 Midwest Clinic)
- Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.) Wind Ensemble (David Holsinger, conductor) – 17 April 2018
Works for Winds by this Composer
Works for Band and Wind Ensemble
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- Concertino Caboclo (2012)
- Dancefares (2016)
- Deep Calls to Deep (2016)
- The Exultant Heart (2016)
- Ford's Machine (2011)
- The Grand Processional of Our Reptilian Overlords (2019)
- He Who Would Valiant Be (2010)
- Heavy Weather -- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble (2012)
- I Know Moonrise (2019)
- If I Am to Leave... See: Symphony No. 1
- In Light, Accessible... (2015)
- The King of Love, My Shepherd Is (2004)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- Mountain Whippoorwill, The (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Rumpelstilzchen: A Fairy Tale for Wind Ensemble (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Chamber Works:
- And Can It Be, for brass sextet (2009)
- Agua Nocturna, for chamber winds and percussion quartet (2010)
- Burning Music, for chamber ensemble (2011)
- Falling Wrong, for bassoon and piano (2014)
- I Carry Your Heart, for soprano, piano, and flugelhorn (2008)
- Last Dances of Prospero, for horn quartet (2009)
- Lux Veritas, for brass quintet and harp
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon, for Bb clarinet, alto saxophone, cello, piano, and percussion (2013)
- Nuclear Family, for clarinet quartet (2014)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Tom O'Bedlam, for flute/alto flute and percussion (2014)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
