SKU: PR.16500092L
UPC: 680160039531. 11 x 17 inches.
Zion is the third and final installment of a series of works for Wind Ensemble inspired by national parks in the western United States, collectively called Three Places in the West. As in the other two works (The Yellowstone Fires and Arches), it is my intention to convey more an impression of the feelings I've had in Zion National Park in Utah than an attempt at pictorial description. Zion is a place with unrivalled natural grandeur, being a sort of huge box canyon in which the traveler is constantly overwhelmed by towering rock walls on every side of him -- but it is also a place with a human history, having been inhabited by several tribes of native Americans before the arrival of the Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century. By the time the Mormons reached Utah, they had been driven all the way from New York State through Ohio and, with tragic losses, through Missouri. They saw Utah in general as a place nobody wanted, but they were nonetheless determined to keep it to themselves. Although Zion Canyon was never a Mormon Stronghold, the people who reached it and claimed it (and gave it its present name) had been through extreme trials. It is the religious fervor of these persecuted people that I was able to draw upon in creating Zion as a piece of music. There are two quoted hymns in the work: Zion's Walls (which Aaron Copland adapted to his own purposes in both is Old American Songs and the opera The Tender Land) and Zion's Security, which I found in the same volume in which Copland found Zion's Walls -- that inexhaustible storehouse of 19th-century hymnody called The Sacred Harp. My work opens with a three-verse setting of Zion's Security, a stern tune in F-sharp minor which is full of resolve. (The words of this hymn are resolute and strong, rallying the faithful to be firm, and describing the city of our God they hope to establish). This melody alternates with a fanfare tune, whose origins will be revealed in later music, until the second half of the piece begins: a driving rhythmic ostinato based on a 3/4-4/4 alternating meter scheme. This pauses at its height to restate Zion's Security one more time, in a rather obscure setting surrounded by freely shifting patterns in the flutes, clarinets, and percussion -- until the sun warms the ground sufficiently for the second hymn to appear. Zion's Walls is set in 7/8, unlike Copland's 9/8-6/8 meters (the original is quite strange, and doesn't really fit any constant meter), and is introduced by a warm horn solo. The two hymns vie for attention from here to the end of the piece, with the glowingly optimistic Zion's Walls finally achieving prominence. The work ends with a sense of triumph and unbreakable spirit. Zion was commissioned in 1994 by the wind ensembles of the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Oklahoma. It is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland.
SKU: CA.9125603
ISBN 9790007129392. Language: Latin.
As a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, Rosengart reveals great stylistic diversity in his works. This Hymnus , in two sections, reveals his ability as a baroque composer, who concentrated on the musical embellishment of the liturgy. Christe redemptor omnium was performed to the glory of God in the monastic church at Ochsenhausen. Score available separately - see item CA.9125600.
SKU: CA.9125614
ISBN 9790007234690. Language: Latin.
As a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, Rosengart reveals great stylistic diversity in his works. This Hymnus , in two sections, reveals his ability as a baroque composer, who concentrated on the musical embellishment of the liturgy. Christe redemptor omnium was performed to the glory of God in the monastic church at Ochsenhausen. Score and part available separately - see item CA.9125600.
SKU: CA.9125613
ISBN 9790007234683. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.9125649
ISBN 9790007234713. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.9125611
ISBN 9790007234669. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.9125612
ISBN 9790007234676. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.9125600
ISBN 9790007094591. Language: Latin.
As a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, Rosengart reveals great stylistic diversity in his works. This Hymnus , in two sections, reveals his ability as a baroque composer, who concentrated on the musical embellishment of the liturgy. Christe redemptor omnium was performed to the glory of God in the monastic church at Ochsenhausen.
SKU: CA.9125605
ISBN 9790007130145. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.9125619
ISBN 9790007234706. Language: Latin.
As a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, Rosengart reveals great stylistic diversity in his works. This Hymnus , in two sections, reveals his ability as a baroque composer, who concentrated on the musical embellishment of the liturgy. Christe redemptor omnium was performed to the glory of God in the monastic church at Ochsenhausen. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.9125600.
SKU: CA.4005712
ISBN 9790007059545. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
This Litany consists of six movements divided into nine different, distinguished sections. Clearly, Mozart used as models for his work the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries. Score and part available separately - see item CA.4005700.
SKU: CA.4005711
ISBN 9790007059538. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.4005709
ISBN 9790007059521. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
This Litany consists of six movements divided into nine different, distinguished sections. Clearly, Mozart used as models for his work the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4005700.
SKU: CA.4005707
ISBN 9790007087487. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
This Litany consists of six movements divided into nine different, distinguished sections. Clearly, Mozart used as models for his work the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries. Score available separately - see item CA.4005700.
SKU: CA.4005714
ISBN 9790007059569. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.4005719
ISBN 9790007134457. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.4005700
ISBN 9790007015527. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
This Litany consists of six movements divided into nine different, distinguished sections. Clearly, Mozart used as models for his work the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries.
SKU: CA.4005749
ISBN 9790007059576. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.4005705
ISBN 9790007059514. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.4005713
ISBN 9790007059552. Key: E flat major. Language: Latin.
