 The Asteria March, original song composed 1994, brass arrangement composed 2003 |
| File: | asteria_march.nwc (April 2003) 6 kB |
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| Full name of work: | The Asteria March, original song composed 1994, brass arrangement composed 2003 |
| Composer: | Kaplan, Howard L. (1948- ) Canadian |
| About: | http://www.thrinberry-frog.com |
| Lyricist: | Kaplan, Howard L. (1948- ) Canadian |
| First line: | Echinodermata are we. We have complex, spiny skin. |
| Music category: | Chamber march |
| Instruments: | Two trumpets, one french horn, one trombone, one tuba, percussion |
| Name of file creator: | Howard L. Kaplan |
| e-mail address: | howard "at" thrinberry-frog "dot" com |
| Website: | http://www.thrinberry-frog.com |
| Running time: | 3:16 |
| Comments: | If you do not try to read the notation or the lyrics as you simply listen, you may find this a rather peculiar march. If you do try to read the lyrics, you may find this an even more peculiar march, albeit a less inexplicably peculiar march. The Asteria March originated as a song in 1994; the current arrangement is for brass quintet with percussion. The incentive to create the arrangement was the march competition conducted on various Noteworthy Composer newsgroups in March 2003; it won third prize out of 24 entries. If you like using ten dollar words, you can call this a "chaconne" instead of a song arrangement -- that means that the same melody plus chorus line, 12 bars worth, keeps showing up in different instruments and different octave transpositions. I used the Unison sound font on an SB Audigy card; if you use a different font, your mileage (or balance) may vary. I've notated the brass at concert pitch. Since the song melody moves from instrument to instrument, I have also created a silent instrument in the top staff to hold the lyrics and a copy of the melody, regardless of what instrument is currently playing that melody. This staff also holds the chord symbols that a folk musician would use if accompanying this song. The instrument is not muted, but all of its notes are set to a volume of 0. Having the lyrics on a single inaudible channel also makes it easier for me to make a .kar file from the .mid after importing the latter into Melody Assistant. Grant of permission - I hereby grant the Scriptorium, a web site devoted to posting examples of music composed or notated using Noteworthy Composer, found at http://nwc-scriptorium.org/ as of March 2003, the non-exclusive right to post the information in the form submitted above and in the .nwc file described by the form. |