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...
hindemith
giannini
dj
de Meij - Symphony 1 for Wind Band
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Hovhaness wrote a number of symphonies for band, such as
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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.
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?
Schmitt's Dionysiaques and Holst's suites are fine and exciting works, but not band symphonies.
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.
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:)
frank erikson composed a band symphony...i played it ages ago. i know where the parts are.
dj
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.
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.
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! ;)
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.
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
Oh, sure they would. A composer necessarily has broad musical interests . . . .
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
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!
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.
Quote from: Catison on June 02, 2009, 12:51:50 PM
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.
Well, and now I've
got to cue this baby up . . . .