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Title	Soldier's Wife, The
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	click here
Series title	Concert and Contest Collection
EAN (GTIN)	click here
ISMN	click here
Year of publication	2012
Composer	Van der Roost, Jan
Difficulty level	2
Evaluation level of countries	D2 (German lower level)
Duration	4:48
Additional info/contents	The Soldier's Wife is a short, simple work commissioned by the Singapore Ministry of Education. It was initially intended as a compulsory piece for the 2012 Singapore Youth Festival. As many school wind orchestras in Singapore are incompletely staffed, the composer was specifically asked to create the work so that it could be played with a limited ensemble: this explains some doubling and optional instruments. A warm-sounding, melodic passage opens this short work: the wife of the - wooden - soldier sings a kind of lullaby. This lyrical section is followed by a more powerful part, but built on the same melodic material. The syncopated rhythm here and there gives this part a special energy, and harmonically there are also some surprising turns - although one must always bear in mind the limitations imposed by the degree of difficulty. If the work is still quiet and sweet at the beginning, by the end much more "feminine energy" is perceptible...!
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Sample score	click here
Sound sample	click here
Available	yes
ergänzender Text	click here

	Format	EUR
	Soldier's Wife, The (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Soldier's Wife, The (concert/wind band), full score
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