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beg - mm. 31
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Skills & Techniques: Accuracy, Cadenza Style, Dynamic Contrast, Endurance, Phrasing, Slurring Flexibility
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Horn 1 (F)
All excerpts from Symphony No. 4 by David Maslanka reprinted with permission.
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
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Dallas Wind Symphony (2012)
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Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (2012)
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mm. 484-501
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Skills & Techniques: Endurance, High Register, Loud Playing, Marcato Style
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Horn 1 (F)
Horn 2 (F)
Horn 3 (F)
Horn 4 (F)
All excerpts from Symphony No. 4 by David Maslanka reprinted with permission.
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
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Dallas Wind Symphony (2012)
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Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (2012)
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mm. 529-542
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Skills & Techniques: Accuracy, Phrasing, Slurring Flexibility
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Horn 1 (F)
All excerpts from Symphony No. 4 by David Maslanka reprinted with permission.
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
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Dallas Wind Symphony (2012)
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Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (2012)
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mm. 569-578
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Skills & Techniques: Accuracy, Finger Fluency, High Register, Loud Playing, Rhythms, Slurring Flexibility, Tonguing Flexibility
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Horn 1 (F)
Horn 2 (F)
All excerpts from Symphony No. 4 by David Maslanka reprinted with permission.
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
"Symphony No. 4"
Composed by David Maslanka
Published by Carl Fischer Music, LLC. (1994)
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Dallas Wind Symphony (2012)
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Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (2012)
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Composer & Composition Information
David Maslanka (1943-2017)
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David Maslanka (30 August 1943, New Bedford, Mass. – 6 August 2017, Missoula, Mont.) was an American composer.
Dr. Maslanka attended the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied composition with Joseph Wood, and spent a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He also did graduate work in composition at Michigan State University with H. Owen Reed. David Maslanka served on the faculties of the State University of New York at Geneseo, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Kingsborough College of the City University of New York. He was a member of ASCAP. Over the past four decades, David Maslanka has become one of America’s most original and celebrated musical voices. He has published dozens of works for wind ensemble, orchestra, choir, percussion ensembles, chamber ensembles, solo instrument, and solo voice. However, he is especially well-known for his wind ensemble works. Of his nine symphonies, seven are written for wind ensemble, and an additional forty-one works include among them the profound “short symphony” Give Us This Day, and the amusing Rollo Takes a Walk. Year after year, Maslanka’s music is programmed by professional, collegiate, and secondary school wind ensembles around the world. The text & image are reprinted from Windrep.org where more information about the composer can be found. |
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Symphony No. 4
The sources that give rise to a piece of music are many and deep. It is possible to describe the technical aspects of a work – its construction principles, its orchestration – but nearly impossible to write of its soul nature except through hints and suggestions.
The roots of Symphony No. 4 are many. The central driving force is the spontaneous rise of the impulse to shout for the joy of life. I feel it is the powerful voice of the Earth that comes to me from my adopted western Montana, and the high plains and mountains of central Idaho. My personal experience of the voice is one of being helpless and tom open by the power of the thing that wants to be expressed – the welling-up shout that cannot be denied. I am set aquiver and am forced to shout and sing. The response in the voice of the Earth is the answering shout of thanksgiving, and the shout of praise.
Out of this, the hymn tune Old Hundred, several other hymn tunes (the Bach chorales Only Trust in God to Guide You and Christ Who Makes Us Holy), and original melodies which are hymn-like in nature, form the backbone of Symphony No. 4.
The text is written by & reprinted from David Maslanka where more information about the composition can be found.
The roots of Symphony No. 4 are many. The central driving force is the spontaneous rise of the impulse to shout for the joy of life. I feel it is the powerful voice of the Earth that comes to me from my adopted western Montana, and the high plains and mountains of central Idaho. My personal experience of the voice is one of being helpless and tom open by the power of the thing that wants to be expressed – the welling-up shout that cannot be denied. I am set aquiver and am forced to shout and sing. The response in the voice of the Earth is the answering shout of thanksgiving, and the shout of praise.
Out of this, the hymn tune Old Hundred, several other hymn tunes (the Bach chorales Only Trust in God to Guide You and Christ Who Makes Us Holy), and original melodies which are hymn-like in nature, form the backbone of Symphony No. 4.
The text is written by & reprinted from David Maslanka where more information about the composition can be found.
Notable Performances/Recordings:
Rutgers Wind Ensemble (2013)
Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (2012)
Eastman Wind Ensemble (2009)
Illinois State University Wind Symphony (2005)
University of Texas (Austin) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (1994)
Rutgers Wind Ensemble (2013)
Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (2012)
Eastman Wind Ensemble (2009)
Illinois State University Wind Symphony (2005)
University of Texas (Austin) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (1994)