روي هاريس

Roy Ellsworth Harris روي هاريس (12 فبراير 1898 في أوكلاهوما - 1 أكتوبر 1979 في كاليفورنيا). كان ملحن أمريكي.

The Symphonies

Harris composed at least 18 symphonies, though not all of them are numbered and not all are for orchestra. A full list is as follows:

Symphony - Our Heritage (1925 rev. 1926, abandoned), sometimes referred to as Symphony No. 1 [for orchestra] - only an Andante survives
Symphony - American Portrait (1928-1929) [for orchestra]
Symphony 1933 (1933), sometimes referred to as Symphony No. 1 [for orchestra]
Symphony No. 2 (1934) [for orchestra]
Symphony for Voices (1935) after Walt Whitman [for unaccompanied SATB chorus]
Symphony No. ثلاثة (1937-1938, rev. 1939) [for orchestra]
Folksong Symphony (Symphony No. 4) (1939 rev. 1942) [for chorus and orchestra]
Symphony No.خمسة (1940–42 rev. 1945) [for orchestra]
Symphony No.ستة 'Gettysburg Address' after Lincoln (1943-1944) [for orchestra]
Symphony for Band 'West Point'(1952) [for US military band]
Symphony No.سبعة (1951-1952, rev. 1955) [for orchestra]
Symphony No.ثمانية 'San Francisco' (1961–62) [for orchestra with concertante piano]
Symphony No.تسعة (1962) for Philadelphia [for orchestra]
Symphony No.عشرة 'Abraham Lincoln' (1965) [for speaker, chorus, brass, 2 pianos and percussion]; revised version for speaker, chorus, piano and orchestra (1967; missing)
Symphony No. 11 (1967) for New York PO 125th [for orchestra]
Symphony No. 12 'Père Marquette' (1967-1969) [for tenor solo, speaker and orchestra]
Bicentennial Symphony 1776 (1969-1974), numbered by Harris as Symphony No. 14 out of superstition over the number 13 but posthumously re-numbered as No. 13 by Dan Stehman with the permission of the composer's widow [for six-part chorus and orchestra with solo voices and speakers]

In addition there is a missing (and perhaps not completed) Symphony for High School Orchestra (1937) and the following unfinished or fragmentary works:

American Symphony (1938) [for jazz band]
Choral Symphony (1936) [for chorus and orchestra]
Walt Whitman Symphony (1955–58) [baritone solo, chorus and orchestra]

Naxos Records is in the process of recording the 13 numbered symphonies with conductor Marin Alsop.^[]

Piano works

Sonata Op. 1 (1928) Prelude, Andante, Scherzo, Coda
Little Suite for Piano (1938) Bells, Sad News, Children at Play, Slumber
Suite for Piano (1944)
American Ballads (1946)
Toccata (1949)

Other notable works

These include:

Andante for Orchestra (1925 rev. 1926) [only completed movement of Symphony 'Our Heritage']
Epilogue to Profiles in Courage - JFK (1964)
Fantasy for piano and orchestra (1954)
Piano Sonata (1928)
Concerto for String Quartet, Piano, and Clarinet (1926, rev. 1927-8)
Piano Quintet (1936)
String Quartet No.3 (Four Preludes and Fugues) (1937)
Violin Concerto (1949)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home - An American Overture (1934)

Notes

^ Hinson, Maurice (2000). Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 376. ISBN .

References

Canarina, John. 1995. "The American Symphony". In A Guide to the Symphony, new edition, edited by Robert Layton, Chapter 18. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-288005-5
Kennan, Kent Wheeler. 1952. The Technique of Orchestration. New York: Prentice-Hall. Second edition 1970, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-900316-9 Third edition, with Donald Grantham, 1983, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-900308-8
Slonimsky, Nicolas. 1947. "Roy Harris". The Musical Quarterly 33, no. 1 (January): 17–37.
Stehman, Dan. 1984. Roy Harris: An American Musical Pioneer. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-9461-1
Stehman, Dan. 1991. Roy Harris: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in Music 40. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25079-0
Stehman, Dan. 2001. "Harris, Roy [LeRoy] (Ellsworth)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.