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Title	Of Sailors and Whales
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Wind Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
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Year of publication	1990
Composer	McBeth, W. Francis
Opus no.	Op.78
Difficulty level	5
Evaluation level of countries	C4 (Swiss 1st class); D5 (German highest level)
Duration	17:10
Additional info/contents	This large-scale musical depiction in five movements is based of five scenes from Melville's Moby Dick. It was commissioned by and is dedicated to the California Band Directors Association. The February 1990 premiere was performed by the California All-State Band and conducted by the composer. Of Sailors and Whales: Five Scenes from Melville I. Ishmael - "I go to sea a simple sailor". II. Queequeg - "It was quite plain that must be some abominable savage, but Queequeg was a creature in the transitory state - neither caterpillar nor butterfly". III. Father Mapple - "This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog - in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy." IV. Ahab - "So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me that for the first few moments I hardly noted the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood". V. The White Whale - "Moby Dick seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven. The birds! The birds! They mark the spot". Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2,3 Ob 1,2 Fag 1,2 EsClr Clr 1,2,3 AClr BClr CBClr ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Trp 1,2,3 Hrn in F 1,2,3,4 Trb 1,2,3 Euph Tuba Tmp Perc: -BD -Clv -Cnga Drum -MCym -SuCym -Glsp -Gng (Tam-tam) -TmTm (Low) -BTr -SD -Trng -RGlk -Vib -Wispi (T-bar) -Hbl -Xyl Bandsmen singing

No.	Track title	Sound sample
1	Ishmael
2	Queequeg
3	Father Mapple
4	Ahab
5	The White Whale

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	Of Sailors and Whales (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Of Sailors And Whales (concert/wind band), full score
	Of Sailors And Whales (concert/wind band), world parts; European parts

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