I Shall Not Forget [wind band] - SCORE

I Shall Not Forget

wind band version

[2021]

 

music by E.K.R. Hammell

 

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-Conductor's Score PDF (SKU:EH0016A)

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preview score:

EH0016A - I Shall Not Forget [wind band version] - Preview Score PDF

 

listen:

Audio Demo mp3 of I Shall Not Forget [wind band version]

 

difficulty:

Easy - Medium

 

duration:

4 mins

 

instrumentation:

Fl.1/2 – Ob.  – Bsn. – BbCl.1/2/3 – Bs.Cl. – A.Sax. – T.Sax – B.Sax
BbTpt.1/2 – FHn. – Tbn.1/2 – Euph.(BC/TC) – Tba. – Str.Bs.(Tba.^wr.8va) – Perc. 1/2/3 (timpani, suspended cymbal, triangle, mark tree)

 

program notes:

I Shall Not Forget was originally composed in 2017 as a choral setting of White Pansies by Canadian poet, Archibald Lampman. Lampman wrote the poem in 1894 in response to the death of his young son, Arnold. The darkly beautiful imagery and profound sadness of the text are a solemn reminder to never take any moment for granted, and had an anguished, lamenting quality that spoke to me in a way I felt needed to be expressed musically, more specifically: as a melancholy lullaby. This band re-orchestration was created in 2021 and is suitable for a developing or more advanced band.

 

original text:

Archibald Lampman (1862-1899)

White Pansies

Day and night pass over, rounding,
Star and cloud and sun,
Things of drift and shadow, empty
Of my dearest one.

Soft as slumber was my baby,
Beaming bright and sweet;
Daintier than bloom or jewel
Were his hands and feet.

He was mine, mine all, mine only,
Mine and his debt;
Earth and Life and Time are changers;
I shall not forget.

Pansies for my dear one — heartsease —
Set them gently so;
For his stainless lips and forehead,
Pansies white as snow.

Would that in the flower-grown little
Grave they dug so deep,
I might rest beside him, dreamless,
Smile no more, nor weep.

(1894)

 

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