Golden Temple

for Wind Orchestra | 6’ | No Grade (ไม่ระบุเกรด) | 2024

฿4,500.00

Program Note

Golden Temple is an homage to Boonyong Gatekong, an extraordinary Thai traditional music performer, teacher, and composer. The title aims to highlight the shared characteristics of many monumental and remarkable religious sites, both real and fictional, in East and Southeast Asia.

Gold is a color often associated with sacredness and abundance. Coincidentally, many temples and pagodas across both real and fictional East and Southeast Asia feature golden characteristics. One of Boonyong’s compositions, Shwedagon, is named after a Myanmar pagoda in Yangon and can be directly translated to “Golden Pagoda.” This composition utilized the Myanmese musical dialect, as understood by Boonyong. It is teeming with joyfulness and celebratory energy.

Golden Temple utilized many Thai’s Myanmese musical elements, such as syncopated rhythms and bright modal passages. Many remarkable musical motives from Shwedagon were quoted and reimagined into different contexts. This composition plays with the cultural afterimages latched on the use of melodic passages and rhythmic patterns. It explores and celebrates the combination of conventional and modern musical language.

Citation

  • The program note was provided to Thai Wind Composers by the composer.

Information

  • 1 Piccolo
  • 3 Flutes
  • 2 Oboes
  • 3 Clarinets in B♭
  • 2 Alto saxophone
  • Tenor saxophone
  • Baritone saxophone
  • 2 Bassoons
  • 4 Horns in F
  • 3 Trumpets in B♭
  • 2 Trombones
  • 1 Bass trombone
  • 1 Euphonium
  • 1 Tuba
  • Timpani
  • Percussion (3 players) *

* Bass drum, Crash cymbals, Chinese cymbals, Hi-hat, Suspended cymbals, 5 Temple blocks, 4 Tom-toms, Triangle, Snare Drum, Xylophone

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