Ides March (Score & Parts) 進行曲

Ides March》是威廉-布裡安（William Brine）於 1990 年委託貝爾梅爾創作的第一部作品。布裡安要求該作品是一首適合在婚禮和葬禮上演奏的進行曲。雖然最初的標題是《布裡安進行曲》，但當作曲家得知該進行曲將於 3 月 15 日首演時，他將標題改為《伊蒂斯進行曲》，以向莎士比亞的訓誡 "當心三月的伊蒂斯 "致敬。然而，科爾-波特（Cole Porter）的一句歌詞是這部作品大調與小調交織的靈感來源："還有什麼比這更美妙的呢？但每次我們說再見時，從大調轉到小調的變化是多麼奇怪"，這句話反映了作曲家試圖寫出一首既能表現憂鬱又能表現勝利的進行曲的想法"

作曲家: Bermel, Derek
樂器: Wind Band
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Ides March was commissioned by William Brine in 1990, Bermel’s first commission. Brine requested that the work be a march suitable for performance at both a wedding and a funeral. Although originally titled Brine’s March, when the composer learned that the march was to receive its premiere on 15 March, he changed the title to Ides March in a umorous nod to the Shakespearean admonition ‘Beware the Ides of March’; in his youthful view a sentiment appropriate for either a wedding or a funeral. However, a line from Cole Porter was the inspiration behind the major key to minor key interplay of the work: ‘What could be any finer? But how strange the change from major to minor, every time we say goodbye’, a line that captured the composer’s attempt to write a march that did justice to both the melancholy and triumphant.