Band Symphonies

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snyprrr

March 12, 2009, 11:48:30 PM Last Edit: March 13, 2009, 03:51:02 PM by Que
awesome sym. by ARNOLD!

MYASKOVSKY! nO.19

STRAVINSKY (or is that WIND instrs. ?)heehee

PERSICHETTI No.6 (fav persichetti)
GOULD west point

schoenberg variations

schuller?

i know i'm missing something important....can't think...


david johnson

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March 13, 2009, 12:30:36 AM
hindemith
giannini

dj

hornteacher

#2
March 13, 2009, 04:54:42 PM
de Meij - Symphony 1 for Wind Band

Grazioso

#4
March 14, 2009, 04:49:56 AM
Hovhaness wrote a number of symphonies for band, such as

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Senta

#5
April 13, 2009, 08:07:15 PM
How did I miss this thread?!

Check out David Maslanka. Love the opening of his 3rd!!

Husa Music for Prague might count?

Alfred Reed has several...adore his 2nd, very dark and good music.

snyprrr

#6
April 15, 2009, 11:54:17 PM
Husa
Vaughn-Williams
Hindemith
Copland

Remember that Hunsberger/Sony album?  How could I forget? Good one!

I think Milhaud's No.5???

What about Holst?

I'm gonna add Schmitt Dionysiuses??? Great stuff!

And didn't Strauss do something?

The new erato

#7
April 16, 2009, 01:28:01 AM
Schmitt's Dionysiaques and Holst's suites are fine and exciting works, but not band symphonies.

Mark G. Simon

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April 16, 2009, 05:17:04 AM
Quote from: snyprrr on April 15, 2009, 11:54:17 PM
Husa
Vaughn-Williams
Hindemith
Copland

Hindemith is the only one among those four who wrote a symphony for band, and a great one it is. I wish there were band symphonies by the other three.

Husa has enriched the band repertory with so much fine music, but symphony writing is not a priority with him. No doubt he thinks the form is old fashioned. He appended the sub-title "Symphony no. 2" to his Reflections for orchestra more to tidy up his catalog (he had composed a Symphony no. 1 in the 1940s during his post-Boulanger period) than out of any interest in continuing the form. If you were to pose the question to him about a symphony for band he would probably direct you to his Concerto for Wind Ensemble. I notice that in 2006 he added another wind ensemble work called Cheetah to his catalog.

snyprrr

#9
April 16, 2009, 09:40:09 AM
OK ;D, nothing less than a symphony!

I know how hard it is to keep things on topic round here! :P ;D 0:) Not that I ever do it. 0:)

david johnson

#10
April 16, 2009, 10:18:09 AM
frank erikson composed a band symphony...i played it ages ago.  i know where the parts are.

dj

vandermolen

#11
April 16, 2009, 11:34:13 PM
Quote from: snyprrr on March 12, 2009, 11:48:30 PM
awesome sym. by ARNOLD!

MYASKOVSKY! nO.19

STRAVINSKY (or is that WIND instrs. ?)heehee

PERSICHETTI No.6 (fav persichetti)
GOULD west point

schoenberg variations

schuller?

i know i'm missing something important....can't think...




Morto Gould's 'West Point Symphony' is great fun.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

karlhenning

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June 01, 2009, 04:10:55 AM
Quote from: Mark G. Simon on April 16, 2009, 05:17:04 AM
Hindemith is the only one among those four who wrote a symphony for band, and a great one it is.

I still get chills recalling the experience of playing that Symphony in B-flat.

Rod Corkin

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June 01, 2009, 05:31:12 AM Last Edit: June 01, 2009, 05:35:17 AM by Rod Corkin
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 01, 2009, 04:10:55 AM
I still get chills recalling the experience of playing that Symphony in B-flat.

Don't think for one moment you can get rid of Rob simply by bumping up lots of random topics!  ;D

But one you might want to bump up is my infamous topic on Bach vs Handel, which amongst other things explores the 20th century cult of Bach, a well documented cult which Rob is notoriously shy to acknowledge, one which the wolves here got seriously wound up about as it seems the cult exists even at the humble level of GMG!  ;)
"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/classicalmusicmayhem/

karlhenning

#14
June 01, 2009, 05:32:30 AM
Quote from: Rod Corkin on June 01, 2009, 05:31:12 AM
Don't think for one moment you can get rid of Rob simply by bumping up lots of random topics!  ;D

Get rid of . . . who?  8)

But they aren't random; they are joined, at the very least, by genuine musical interest on my part.

Rod Corkin

#15
June 01, 2009, 05:35:59 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 01, 2009, 05:32:30 AM
Get rid of . . . who?  8)

But they aren't random; they are joined, at the very least, by genuine musical interest on my part.

I believe you, thousands wouldn't...  >:D
"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin
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karlhenning

#16
June 01, 2009, 05:46:17 AM
Oh, sure they would. A composer necessarily has broad musical interests . . . .

Dundonnell

#17
June 01, 2009, 06:13:40 AM
I could attempt to count up the number of symphonies for band Alan Hovhaness actually wrote but I don't think that I have the energy or patience ;D

snyprrr

#18
June 01, 2009, 12:50:56 PM
Quote from: Rod Corkin on June 01, 2009, 05:31:12 AM
Don't think for one moment you can get rid of Rob simply by bumping up lots of random topics!  ;D

Hahaha...I spent all night last week doing that! ;D...cheeeze!

Catison

#19
June 02, 2009, 12:51:50 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 01, 2009, 04:10:55 AM
I still get chills recalling the experience of playing that Symphony in B-flat.

Just listened to this today.  I am wondering if there is a brass band arrangement (in the British style).  That would be something else to play, especially that fugue in the third movement.
-Brett
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