Ides March (Score & Parts) 进行曲

Ides March》是威廉-布里安（William Brine）于 1990 年委托贝尔梅尔创作的第一部作品。布里安要求该作品是一首适合在婚礼和葬礼上演奏的进行曲。虽然最初的标题是《布里安进行曲》，但当作曲家得知该进行曲将于 3 月 15 日首演时，他将标题改为《伊蒂斯进行曲》，以向莎士比亚的训诫 "当心三月的伊蒂斯 "致敬。然而，科尔-波特（Cole Porter）的一句歌词是这部作品大调与小调交织的灵感来源："还有什么比这更美妙的呢？但每次我们说再见时，从大调转到小调的变化是多么奇怪"，这句话反映了作曲家试图写出一首既能表现忧郁又能表现胜利的进行曲的想法"

作曲家: Bermel, Derek
乐器: Wind Band
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
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.