Threnos
For Wind Ensemble
by Steven Stucky
Concert Band - Sheet Music

Concert Band Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bass Trombone, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Chimes, Chinese Cymbal, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clarinet 3, Contrabassoon, Cor anglais, Crotales, Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Glockenspiel, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4 and more.

SKU: PR.145400290

For Wind Ensemble. Composed by Steven Stucky. First performed March 6, 1988 in Ithaca, NY by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble conducted by Marice Stith. Contemporary. Score and Set of Parts. With Standard notation. Composed Jan-88. 24 + 81 pages. Duration 7 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #145-40029. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.145400290).

UPC: 680160032044.

Threnos (lamentation; dirge) was commissioned by Marice Stith and the Cornell University Wind Ensemble in memory of my colleague and friend Brian Israel, a gifted American composer who died of leukemia at the age of thirty-five. The music is dominated by three elements: the forceful arpeggiated gesture heard in the horns at the opening; the constant tolling of bells, both literal (piano, vibraphone, chimes, etc.) and figurate; and a fragment of lament-like melody first heard in the solo oboe near the beginning. At its climax, the music takes up this oboe melody in a full-throated cry of grief. Threnos was completed in January 1988 and first performed March 6 of that year in Ithaca, NY, by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble conducted by Marice Stith.
Threnos (lamentation; dirge) was commissioned by Marice Stith and the Cornell University Wind Ensemble in memory of my colleague and friend Brian Israel, a gifted American composer who died of leukemia at the age of thirty-five.The music is dominated by three elements: the forceful arpeggiated gesture heard in the horns at the opening; the constant tolling of bells, both literal (piano, vibraphone, chimes, etc.) and figurate; and a fragment of lament-like melody first heard in the solo oboe near the beginning. At its climax, the music takes up this oboe melody in a full-throated cry of grief.Threnos was completed in January 1988 and first performed March 6 of that year in Ithaca, NY, by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble conducted by Marice Stith.