Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Product ID: BO1 48019245
By John Barnes Chance
Publisher:
Boosey & Hawkes
Arranger:
Longfield
Line Up:
String / Symphony Orchestra
Level: 4
Set & Score
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About this item
Now available for orchestra, this long-revered concert band work is based on a simple pentatonic tune, skillfully developed into a powerful movement that features percussion and brilliant orchestration techniques. Robert Longfield's arrangement captures the full effect of the exotic and dramatic style of the original work.
Instrumentation
1 - CONDUCTOR SCORE (FULL SCORE) 40 pages
1 - PICCOLO 3 pages
1 - FLUTE 3 pages
1 - OBOE 3 pages
1 - BASSOON 3 pages
1 - 1ST BB CLARINET 3 pages
1 - 2ND BB CLARINET 3 pages
1 - 1ST BB TRUMPET 2 pages
1 - 2ND BB TRUMPET 2 pages
1 - 3RD BB TRUMPET 2 pages
1 - F HORN 1 2 pages
1 - F HORN 2 2 pages
1 - 1ST TROMBONE 2 pages
1 - 2ND TROMBONE 2 pages
1 - 3RD TROMBONE 2 pages
1 - TUBA 2 pages
4 - BASS 2 pages
2 - PERCUSSION 1 2 pages
2 - PERCUSSION 2 1 page
2 - PERCUSSION 3 1 page
1 - TIMPANI 2 pages
2 - MALLET PERCUSSION 2 pages
8 - VIOLIN 1 3 pages
8 - VIOLIN 2 3 pages
4 - VIOLA 3 pages
4 - CELLO 3 pages
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Composer
John Barnes Chance 1932-1972
John Barnes Chance (November 20, 1932 – August 16, 1972) was a composer, born in Beaumont, Texas. Chance studied composition with Clifton Williams at the University of Texas, Austin, and is best known for his concert band works, which include Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Incantation and Dance, and Blue Lake Overture. Many of his works are written for young musicians, particularly those written between 1960 and 1962, when he was composer-in-residence in the Greensboro, North Carolina public school system—specifically at Greensboro Senior High School (now Grimsley Senior High School) under the supervision of Herbert Hazelman—as part of the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project.
Before he became a full-time composer, Chance played timpani with the Austin Symphony and later was an arranger for the Fourth and Eighth U.S. Army bands. Chance taught at the University of Kentucky from 1966 until his death in 1972. In August 1972, Chance was airing a tent in his garden when a metal pole contacted an electrified fence used to confine his dogs. Chance was accidentally electrocuted and died at 12:40 p.m. at Central Baptist Hospital from cardiac arrest.
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