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Goin' Home
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Symphonic Chorale based on Folk Music The melody of GOIN' HOME is based on the famous main theme of the 2nd movement from Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”). The melody is presented by the English Horn and was considered - like many other themes from the symphony - to be inspired by American folk music. At the same time, musicologists speculated that the themes could also have originated from Czech or Bohemian folklore and thus from the composer’s homeland. However, Antonin Dvorák himself undoubtedly had nothing to do with the lyrics to GOIN’ HOME, because they were written later by William Arms Fisher, a Dvorák student. The lines of GOIN’ HOME express what Fisher felt when he listened to his teacher’s music: loneliness, nostalgia and melancholy; feelings that can also be found in the spirituals that were sung by slaves. With his adaptation of GOIN’ HOME, the American composer James L. Hosay created a touching version of this song: a symphonic chorale for large wind orchestra. Hosay’s accompaniment is extraordinarily creative: He embeds the theme in a harmonically complex and thus extremely colourful environment.
Grade Level GB: 3-4 Grade Level USA: 2+ (Easy-Medium) Composer: Hosay, James L. Genre: Chorale, Folk, Concert Piece Performance time: 00:05:49 Publisher: Rundel Size: A4 Info: Full Score + Parts Rundel Order Number: MVSR3504 Release Date: 2022
The melody of GOIN' HOME is based on the famous main theme of the 2nd movement from Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”). The melody is presented by the...
James L. Hosay was born in 1959 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. After high school, he became a trumpeter in the United States Army and completed his education at the Music School of the U.S. Armed Forces.
After the first two years of military service, he became a staff arranger and composer for the United States Army Band (Pershing's Own) in Washington, D.C....