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MASQUERADE FOR BAND, OP. 102
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WRITTEN BY VINCENT PERSICHETTI IN 1966. IT WAS COMPOSED AS A THEME AND SET OF TEN VARIATIONS, INFLUENCED BY THE MUSICAL EXAMPLES IN THE BOOK 'TWENTIETH CENTURY HARMONY' WRITTEN BY PERSICHETTI. PERFORMED BY THE 1969 ILLINOIS UNIV. SYMPHONIC BAND.
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Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi
Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.
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Classical • Symphonic
Peak in subgenre #20
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August 15, 2009
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MP3 14.7 MB • 192 kbps • 10:40
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Masquerade, a theme and set of ten variations, is a realization of examples and exercises that can be found in Persichetti’s book Twentieth Century Harmony. Reflecting his ever-present sense of humor, Persichetti did not reveal the relationship between the book and the composition until long after its publication, later referring to the piece as "a masquerade of the harmony book." It was written for and premiered by the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory (Berea, OH) Symphonic Band in 1966. The formal structure of Masquerade is that of a themeand- variations, but not in the traditional sense; while Persichetti does extract a theme (more of a brief motto) from his book, most of the variations can be traced, not back to this theme, but instead directly to materials from the text. Persichetti culls material from almost every chapter; individual variations embody such various harmonic principles as: octatonicism, pentatonicism, polytonality, modality, parallelism, whole-tone harmonies, quartal harmony, pedal-points, and ending with 12-tone aggregates. While Masquerade could have been a dry composer’s polar stylistic descriptions of "gracious" and "gritty," all the while sparkling with Persichetti’smusical creativity—a fitting end to a concert that is a tribute not only to the American composer-teacher Vincent Persichetti, but also to the myriad musical relationships between mentor and protégé, teacher and student.The Philadelphia-born Persichetti was widely respected as a journeyman composer and an author of music theory textbooks, as well as one of the USA's foremost composers for the medium of the concert band. This work amusingly blends all three of these aspects. One of his textbooks is the college-level "Twentieth Century Harmony, " one of the most influential of advanced level college theory texts. Such books are filled with examples of counterpoint, voice leading, specific chords and their various resolutions, chord progressions, and tonal modulations. In other words, all the various formulae that can be used to create the themes and forms of a piece of music.
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