Choose Something Like A Star Chamber Orchestra Full Score by ECS Publishing Group

RANDALL THOMPSON Frostiana

7.ChooseSomethingLikeaStar

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8161 | Thompson/Rockwell, arr. | Frostiana | Chamber Orchestra | Full Score

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Instrumentation of Version for Reduced Orchestra

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Flute

Oboe (optional)

Clarinet (in B and A)

Bassoon (optional)

Horn

Harp

Piano (substitute for Harp)

Violin I

Violin II

Viola

Violoncello Contrabass

Strings (minimum 1-1-1-1-1)

Notes on the Instrumentation

This chamber orchestration was carefully written for a ﬂexible instrumentation, allowing for different performance situations. Strings may be performed one on a part, or with more players as may be appropriate to the venue. The arrangement may be performed using a piano if a harp is not available, and the oboe and bassoon parts are both optional. When performing without either or both of the double reeds, the players must be directed to play all cues for any absent instruments. These obligatory cues are shown in the conductor score for reference. There are also some ossia staves that need to be played in absence of an instrument. Standard cues to bring players in after long rests should not be played; according to convention these types of cues do not appear in the conductor score. All string parts should be played nondivisi.

—Bruce Rockwell

Duration: 25 minutes

7. Choose Something Like a Star

Text from Steeple Bush by Robert Frost. Copyright 1947, by Henry Holt and Company., Inc., and used with their permission. © Copyright 1959 and 1960 by E. C. Schirmer Music Company Inc., a division of ECS Publishing, Boston, Massachusetts. All rights reserved. Made in U.S.A.

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