Ides March
By Derek Bremel Wind Band Score & Parts Item: 12-0571564887Share
Description
Ides March was commissioned by William Brine in 1990, Bermel's first commission. Brine requested that the work be a march suitable for performance at both a wedding and a funeral. Although originally titled Brine's March, when the composer learned that the march was to receive its premiere on 15 March, he changed the title to Ides March in a humorous nod to the Shakespearean admonition Beware the Ides of March; in his youthful view a sentiment appropriate for either a wedding or a funeral. However, a line from Cole Porter was the inspiration behind the major key to minor key interplay of the work: 'What could be any finer? But how strange the change from major to minor, every time we say goodbye', a line that captured the composer's attempt to write a march that did justice to both the melancholy and triumphant.
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Additional Information
| Series: | Faber Edition: Faber Wind Band Series |
| Composed by: | Derek Bremel |
| Ensemble: | Wind Band |
| Format: | Score & Parts |
| Instrumentation: | Wind Band |
| Item Number: | 12-0571564887 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-571-56488-7 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-571-56488-0 |
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