Zinphonia

David Holsinger

General Info

Year: 2017
Duration: 9:20
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: TRN Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $115.00 | Score Only (print) - $14.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass 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
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

Bar Chimes
Bass Drum
Cowbells (2)
Crash Cymbals
Hi-Hat
Marimba
Orchestra Bells
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Tambourine
Tam-Tam
Temple Blocks
Tom-Toms (3), tuned
Triangle
Wood Blocks (2)
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The English term “sinfonia” or “sinphonia” most commonly refers to a 17th or 18th century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite. In the Italian, the word simply translates as “symphony”, though nothing on the scale of, for instance, a Mahler symphony. Bach used the term for some of his keyboard compositions. Igor Stravinsky titled the first movement of his 1932 octet Sinfonia. The term has found resurgence in the twentieth century, especially since 1950. All this is to say that this composition has absolutely nothing in common with any of this musicology trivia!

Two years ago, when I was first approached concerning composing a special piece to celebrate Dennis Zeisler, conductor of the Virginia Wind Symphony, director of bands at Old Dominion University and 77th president of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association, I was thrilled and quickly accepted. He had been a friend for a number of years, and the first thing I did following my acceptance of this commission was to go out and immediately ... suffer a stroke! Really.

Admittedly, it was slightly more difficult to write while dealing with the paralysis, but over time, and with the patient understanding of the Virginia Wind Symphony, at last the piece was completed. To prove my tongue-in-cheek cognitive skills had remained somewhat intact throughout the past year and half, I mused that what else could I entitle a piece for a guy named Zeisler? How about Zinphonia? That works.

- Program Note from Lee University Wind Ensemble concert program, 10 October 2017

Media

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State Ratings

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Performances

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Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble (Norfolk, Va.) (Dennis Zeisler, conductor) - April 25, 2018
Virginia Wind Symphony (Norfolk) (David Holsinger, conductor) - 21 December 2017 (2017 Midwest Clinic)
Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.) Wind Ensemble (David Holsinger, conductor) – October 10, 2017
Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble (Norfolk, Va.) (Dennis Zeisler, conductor) - February 19, 2017
Virginia Wind Symphony (Norfolk, Va.) (Dennis Zeisler, conductor) – February 11, 2017 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
Adagio (2000)
The Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman! (2014)
American Faces (1996)
Ancient Dances (2020)
The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf (1981)
Army Ants March and Boogie (2005)
At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
Ballet Exaltare (1999)
Ballet Sacra (1990)
Battle Music (1990)
A Call to Celebration (2012)
Canticles! (2001)
The Case of the Mysterious Stranger (1990)
The Chase (2003)
A Childhood Hymn (as arranger) (1862/1991)
City Symphony
- Cityscape I (Festive Hours Neon Night) (2001)
- Cityscape II (Lonely Hours Anguished Night) (2004)
- Cityscape III (Morning Hours Salvation Light) (2008)
The Cluster Bluster Fluster March (1991)
Connacht Rhapsody (2017)
Consider the Uncommon Man (1992)
Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
Deerpath Dances (1996)
Divertimented Dances (2006)
The Easter Symphony (1986-1997)
Elegy on an American Folk Tune (2006)
Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
Every Morning New (2002)
Falcon Attack! (2002)
Fanfare for Brass and Timpani (2003)
Fanfare for Such a Time as This (2007)
Fanfare for the Glorious Naycart (2001)
Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
Fantasy on Old Hundred (2019)
Festiva Jubiloso (2000)
Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
Fort Canterbury March (1989)
The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron (1988)
Gears Pulleys Chains (2006)
Gmyway’s Revenge! (1994)
Graysondance (1993)
Gypsydance (1994)
Havendance (1985)
The Helm Toccata (1991)
Hero Music (2005)
Homage: Three Tapestries (1999)
Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else (1990)
In Praise of Gentle Pioneers (1996)
In the Spring at the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
A Jolly Walk in Hibbertland (1991)
Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
Kansas City Dances (1978)
L'Arco della Vita (2021)
Lake Canterbury Regatta (1993)
Last Run (2020)
A Little Adventure Music (2002)
Little Fantasy on an American Hymn (2009)
A Little Mystery Music (1996)
Liturgical Dances (1984)
The Maelstrom (2009)
The March of the Combat Patrol (1991)
March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
March on a Russian Hymnsong (2003)
Mobbusters! (1994)
Nilesdance (1987)
On a Childhood Sunday Song (2004)
On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1989)
On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowry (1993)
On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
On an American Spiritual (1991)
On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances (1988)
On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon (1999)
On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
On the Overland Stage to El Paso (2006)
One Day in a Small Town (2004)
Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince (2009)
Partita Allegro (1997)
The Peasant Village Dance (1990)
Praises! (2001)
Prairie Dances (1998)
Prelude and Presto (2018)
Prelude and Rondo (1976)
The Pride of Buxmont (2000)
Providence Unfinished (2002)
Quiet River (2011)
Reagan of Illinois (2011)
Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
Riding With the Frontier Battalion (2000)
Scaling the North Wall (1990)
Scootin’ on Hardrock (1999)
Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary (1981)
Sinfonia Voci (1993)
Solemn Hymn & Rowdy Dance (2010)
Soliloquy (2020)
Some Give All (2016)
A Song of Moses (1999)
Summer to Fall: A Love Song (2006)
Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
Symphonic Movement (2000)
Texas Promenade (1999
Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword (2004)
To Live a Life Triumphant (2007)
To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March (1994)
The War Trilogy: 1971 (1999)
The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
Zinphonia (2017)

Resources

David Holsinger website Accessed 29 August 2021