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Title	A Solemn Music
Article no.	3117523
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Instrumentation/info	2Flt (2 flutes); 2PicFlt (2 Piccoloflöte); 2Ob (2 oboes); 3Clr (3 Bb clarinets); Ebclr; AClr (alto clarinet); BClr (bass clarinet); 4Sax (4 Saxophones); 2Fag (2 Bassoons); 4Hrn (4 French Horns); 2tpt; 3Cnt (3 cornets); 3tbn; 2brt; 2Tub (2 tubas); Tmp (timpani); 2Perc (2 percussionist)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts); Leihmtrl (rental)
Country of publication	USA (us)
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Composer	Thomson, Virgil
Additional info/contents	A Solemn Music was composed in 1949 on commission from the League of Composers for the Goldman Band. It was premiered 1949 in Central Park by the Goldman Band, conducted by Thomson. In 1961, Thomson made an orchestral version for Nadia Boulanger to conduct at the concerts of the New York Philharmonic in February of 1962. It presents a meditation of the death of two of the composer's friends, writer Gertrude Stein and painter Christian Bérard. It is in the form of a twelve-tone passacaglia.
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	A Solemn Music (concert/wind band), full score and parts; rental
	A Solemn Music (concert/wind band), full score
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