Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 1 piece |
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Composition Year | 2016-17 |
Genre Categories | Pieces; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra |
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Work Title | Once Upon A Midnight Grimm |
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Alternative. Title | A Symphonic Halloween Tale |
Composer | McGraw, Paul |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.3 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IPM 7 |
Key | F minor |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 1 piece |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 2016-17 |
First Publication. | 2017 |
Average DurationAvg. Duration | 8 minutes |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | Orchestra: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings |
On Halloween night, fog and mist hang over the old abandoned graveyard. As a distant bell strikes midnight, apparitions slowly begin to gather: ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, trolls, goblins and all manner of scary things. All turn to look upon a particularly ugly and disgusting ghoul holding a large gong. He strikes the gong. Stillness hangs over the old graveyard for a moment, and then the smaller ghosts and ghouls begin to dance. Soon all of the creatures are dancing and prancing across the graveyard. When the largest trolls and goblins take a turn, they frighten away all the other creatures, who only slowly return when the big trolls and goblins wander off. As their time is drawing to a close, they all jump, whirl, and leap with the greatest of abandon. Then the far-off bell strikes one o'clock, and quiet stillness settles upon the old graveyard until the next All Hallows Eve.