String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.861883
Composed by Mark O'Connor. 20th Century,Contemporary,Folk. Score and parts. 17 pages. Mark O'Connor Musik International #6205793. Published by Mark O'Connor Musik International (A0.861883).
Song Of The Liberty Bell (score – violin and string orchestra) MO131A
Score (parts available)
Music by Mark O’Connor
13 pages - 5:00 minutes in length
Song Of The Liberty Bell for violin and string orchestra was composed and orchestrated by Mark O’Connor and used as the theme song for the critically acclaimed PBS documentary, Liberty! The American Revolution. O’Connor wrote the piece to include three different instrument groupings - unaccompanied solo, folk ensemble, and string orchestra. The Sony Classical album Liberty! features Song Of The Liberty Bell in all three arrangements. Album notes author Thomas Fleming calls the music profoundly moving with exquisite melody. Fleming further describes the orchestral version - O’Connor joins in, and the instruments of the symphony pick up the theme. It is a musical replication of the way the voices of liberty in 1776 began with a lonely defiant few - and then swelled to a tremendous national chorus that has resounded through the world for the next two hundred and thirty-three years. The music is suited for all levels.
Original music printed from the composer’s manuscripts.
Music editing, copying and engraving by Mark O’Connor
using Finale on Apple Macintosh 1996
Composed by Mark O’Connor
Can be heard on Liberty! Sony Classical and The Essential Mark O’Connor Sony Classical
Mark O’Connor - violin, Yo-Yo Ma – cello, and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
Catalogue Number MO131A
Copyright © 1996 by Mark O’Connor Music International
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