orchestra
winds

Single

Blow It Up, Start Again​

3 O’Clock Mix

Sowing Useful Truths

De Profundis

The Americans

Across the groaning continent

Symphony No. 1, My Hands Are a City

Climbing Parnassus

My Hands Are a City

Concertino

Avenue X

The Rivers of Bowery

1861

As the scent of spring rain...

Chunk

Uncle Sid

Moon by Night

OK Feel Good​

chamber
solo
vocal
arrangements

Moon by Night

for band and optional chorus
(2001)
Duration: 4'
INTERMEDIATE

Winner of the 2003 NBA/Merrill Jones Memorial Young Band Composition Award

Picc, 2Fl, 2Ob, 2Bsn, EbClar, 3Clar, BClar, 2ASax, TSax, Bax, 2Trp, 4Hn, 2Trb, Bar, 2Tba, Cb, Timp, Perc1 (Glock/ 'C'Gong), Perc2 (Vibr/ SusCym/ WChim), Perc3 (Mar/ BDr), Perc4 (Crot/ TubBells/ Tri)

Published by Wingert-Jones.

Moon by Night is a modular work, as it is performable as a work for band and chorus, band alone, chorus and piano, or chorus a cappella. The text is the King James translation of Psalm 121, and the title is an image directly quoted from the psalm. The theme of the work is not sacred, however---it should be more like a hymn-like tone poem; a simple, straightforward chorale with long unending lines, where the text serves only to create an evocative mood. Moon by Night was premiered by the Sterling Municipal Symphony Band in Sterling, IL, on June 27, 2001, with Eric Whitacre conducting.

See also Moon By Night for SATB chorus.

An errata list is available to correct early editions of this work.

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RECENT PERFORMANCES

West Aurora High School Wind Ensemble, West Aurora High School, Aurora, IL, Dr. Rodney C. Schueller, conductor - Feb 26 2013

Purdue University Symphonic Band, Long Center for the Performing Arts / Lafayette, IN, Ishbah Cox, conductor - Feb 15 2013

Champlin Park High School Band, Northwest Suburban All-Conference Music Festival, MInnesota, Steve Lyons, conductor - Feb 04 2013