The Gillette/Campbell-Watson edition is a contemporary version of the piece for American bands. The later Etchegoncelay/Hauswirth edition more faithfully replicates Fauchet’s original orchestration for the Garde Républicaine Band.
Composer:
Year(s) Composed:
1926
Difficulty:
Grade 5
Duration:
29 minutes
Instrumentation:
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Band (Frank Campbell-Watson/James Gillette edition): 2.picc.2.eh.4(6).ecl.acl.bcl.2-2ax(=sx).tx.bx.bsx-4.2.4crt.4.bhn(2).1(2)-timp.2perc(4)[sd.tri.bd.cym]-db
Band (Miguel Etchegoncelay/Felix Hauswirth edition): 2.picc.2.eh.4.ecl.acl.bcl.2-2ax.2tx.2bx-3.2.2crt.2bgl.3.btb.2bhn.2.cbass-timp.2perc[sd.tri.cym.bd]
Movements:
I. Overture
II. Nocturne
III. Scherzo
IV. Finale
Publication Information:
Witmark (1933-1949, ed. Gillette/Campbell-Watson), Warner Brothers, Robert Martin (2010, ed. Etchegoncelay/Hauswirth)
Premiered:
Guillaume Balay/Garde Républicaine Band, Paris, 1926.
Availability:
Available for Purchase
Recordings:
Resources:
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music Online
- Battisti Winds of Change
- GIA Music
- Movement I Score Sample
- Movement II Score Sample
- Movement III Score Sample
- Movement IV Score Sample
- Robert Martin
- WASBE Journal (2003)
- Teaching Music through Performance in Band
- Pieters Article
- Hauswirth Grades 4-6
- Wallace-Corporon Repertoire
- Bly Annotated Bibliography (1973)
- Cippola & Hunsberger Repertoire
- Smith Program Notes
- Goldman Wind Band
- Suppan Neue Lexikon