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Pictures at an Exhibition, Op. 34 (1874/2010)
For Concert Band
Live Performance:
MIDI Realization
Perusal Score:
Duration: 35'
- Promenade
- I. Gnomus (Gnome)
- Moderato commodo assai e con delicatezza
- II. Il vecchio Castello (The Old Castle)
- Moderato con tanto, pesamente
- III. Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) (Tuileries (Dispute of Children after Play))
- IV. Bydlo (Cattle)
- Tranquillo
- V. Balet Nevylupsivshikhsya Ptentsov (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks)
- VI. "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmu˙le" ("Samuel" Goldenberg and "Schmu˙le")
- Promenade
- VII. Limoges. Le marché (La grande nouvelle) (Limoges. The Marketplace (The Big News))
- VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (Catacombs (A Roman Burial Chamber))
- Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (With the Dead in a Dead Language)
- IX. Izbushka na Kur'ikh Nozhkakh (Baba Yaga) (The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)
- 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!