Set of three for chorus and brass (1961)
Trial by time - This trail - Inner song while watching a square dance
op.65,1
( Out of the old transgressions of the seas we come ; We may have been coming up a misty spring ; Calico, cantle, scythe and snath )
Effinger, Cecil Stanley (1914-1990) [ USA ]
Edition
Published by
Elkan-Vogel Inc.
[USA]
, 1963
Number of pages :
43
Type of material:
Full score
Description
Text in:
English
Epoque:
20th century
(1960-1969)
Genre-Style-Form:
Secular
Mood of the piece:
descriptive ; playful ; serious ; dancing
Type of Choir:
SATB (4 mixed voices )
Instrumentation:
Brass
(11 instrumental part(s))
Instruments:
Horn (4) ; Trumpet (3) ; Trombone (3) ; Tuba (1)
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5):
2
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E):
B
Tonality:
G tonal center
Duration:
11.0 min.
Musicological Sources:
American Music Research Center ; Cecil Effinger Collection, Box 24 ; University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Source of text:
New and selected poems by THF
Data about the life of the work:
Premiered 28 Feb. 1961; Sheraton Hotel, MTNA Convention, Philadelphia, PA; Temple University Concert Choir, Robert Page, conductor.
