Concert band - Grade 1 - Digital Download
SKU: IZ.CBS1613
Composed by Marsha Chusmir Shapiro. Score and Parts. 57 pages. Imagine Music - Digital #CBS1613. Published by Imagine Music - Digital (IZ.CBS1613).
9 x 12 in inches.
Composer's Notes
For several years I taught at a private Catholic school, the Bascillica School of St. Paul. I was exposed to some beautiful melodies from the weekly Masses, including one I particularly remembered, but which was under copyright. So I decided to create a similar modal line and open the composition as if it were being sung in a church. I play the French horn which is why I chose that voice to express the theme. The variations which followed were to begin as historically simple, but move toward a more contemporary sound. I have always loved the percussive sound of Vaclav Nelhybell's music and that is what I intended for the ending.