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Pictures at an Exhibition, Op. 34 (1874/2010)

For Concert Band

Live Performance:

MIDI Realization

Perusal Score:

Duration: 35'

  1. Promenade
  2. I. Gnomus (Gnome)
  3. Moderato commodo assai e con delicatezza
  4. II. Il vecchio Castello (The Old Castle)
  5. Moderato con tanto, pesamente
  6. III. Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) (Tuileries (Dispute of Children after Play))
  7. IV. Bydlo (Cattle)
  8. Tranquillo
  9. V. Balet Nevylupsivshikhsya Ptentsov (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks)
  10. VI. "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmu˙le" ("Samuel" Goldenberg and "Schmu˙le")
  11. Promenade
  12. VII. Limoges. Le marché (La grande nouvelle) (Limoges. The Marketplace (The Big News))
  13. VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (Catacombs (A Roman Burial Chamber))
  14. Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (With the Dead in a Dead Language)
  15. IX. Izbushka na Kur'ikh Nozhkakh (Baba Yaga) (The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)
  16. X. Bogatyrskie Vorota (vo stol nom gorode vo Kieve) (The Bogatyr Gate (In the Ancient Capital, Kiev)

Instrumentation:

  • Piccolo
  • Flutes 1-2
  • Oboes 1-2
  • Bassoons 1-2
  • Bb Clarinets 1-2-3
  • Bass Clarinet
  • Alto Saxes 1-2
  • Tenor Sax
  • Baritone Sax
  • Horns 1-2-3-4
  • Bb Tumpets 1-2-3
  • Trombones 1-2
  • Bass Trombone
  • Euphonium
  • Tuba
  • Timpani (4)
  • Mallets (Bells, Marimba, Chimes, Vibraphone, Xylophone)
  • Percussion (2) (Suspended Cymbal, Crash Cymbals, Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Tam-tam, Tambourine, Triangle, Cabasa, Ratchet, Temple Blocks)

Program Notes:

Program notes for this piece will hopefully exist in the near future; however, unfortunately, that time is not now!