Awake Thou Wintry Earth
Duo for Clarinet and violin
by William Schuman
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Clarinet, Violin

SKU: PR.144401480

Duo for Clarinet and violin. Composed by William Schuman. The Premiere was given on March 10, 1987 at Alice Tully Hall by Mr. Neidich and Violinist Curtis Macomber. Classical. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 18+18 pages. Duration 16 minutes, 30 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #144-40148. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144401480).

UPC: 680160026104.

Reverie, as the name suggests, is basically contemplative although there are some contrasting moments of a more animated nature. The two instruments wend their separate ways but always each complements the other. Awake Thou Wintry Earth is a seventeenth-century Dutch carol (the English title is by Thomas Blackburn). Some 45 years ago when I conducted the chorus of Sarah Lawrence College, the carol was frequently on our programs. Unaccountably this lovely melody came to mind decades later and seemed perfect as a theme for a second movement of the Duo. The Variations are mostly continuous rather than sectional. In one way or another all the music derives from the carol melody, sometimes identifiably so and sometimes far removed from the simplicity of the original. --William Schuman.
Reverie, as the name suggests, is basically contemplative although there are some contrasting moments of a more animated nature. The two instruments wend their separate ways but always each complements the other.Awake Thou Wintry Earth is a seventeenth-century Dutch carol (the English title is by Thomas Blackburn). Some 45 years ago when I conducted the chorus of Sarah Lawrence College, the carol was frequently on our programs. Unaccountably this lovely melody came to mind decades later and seemed perfect as a theme for a second movement of the Duo. The Variations are mostly continuous rather than sectional. In one way or another all the music derives from the carol melody, sometimes identifiably so and sometimes far removed from the simplicity of the original.—William Schuman.