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Price: $32.95
Composer:
Wilborn, David
Product Code: TB966
Instrumentation:
8 Trombones
Style:
Contemporary
Difficulty:
Advanced
Wilborn: Fantasy on an Anglican Hymn
Fantasy On An Anglican Hymn was written in the fall of 2009 for the Texas Universities Trombone Teachers Ensemble (TUTTE). The ensemble premiered the work at the 2010 Texas Music Educators Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas and five months later at the International Trombone Festival in Austin, Texas.
The work is based on the famous slow, lyrical, melody created by Gustav Holst in his Jupiter from the suite The Planets. Cecil Spring-Rice first put the melody to words in 1918. Spring-Rice titled the work I Vow To Thee, My Country but the music also became known in the Anglican church as Thaxted. Although Spring-Rice set out to popularize the music as an English patriotic piece, the music later acquired greater public attention as the favorite hymn of Princess Diana of Wales. It was during her wedding and funeral that the hymn was sung by the church congregation while aired over worldwide television.
The trombone choir setting of the hymn tune explores the dark and lyrical qualities of the melody. The work opens with several brief quotes of the hymn melody and is followed by an original tune designed to imitate the character and style of the hymn tune. As the musical quotes build to a climax, the original tune segues into an ethereal resolution, thus reflecting a much lighter mood. The passage prepares the listener for a surprising jazz waltz that gives a fresh take on the hymn melody that originally seemed so somber.
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