DaVinci Transcending Time for Concert Wind Band

This work is almost complete, with only some orchestration editing and score readability editing remaining. The level of difficulty for the sections are in the Level V and VI range, placing it within the range of a topnotch high school band and most college and university wind ensembles, military bands and many community bands.  Score, parts and a synthesized version of the piece are available from me.

Here are the names of each section of DaVinci Transcending Time and the quotations by Leonardo DaVinci which helped inspire the music.

1^st Part:    All Works Dwell In Time

“Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.  This dwells in time, and stretches it limbs into the past and the future, and with these takes to itself all works that are past and those that are future, and with these take to itself all works that are past and those that are to come, both of nature and of the animals, and possesses nothing of the indivisible present.”

-          Leonardo DaVinci

2^nd Part:     Judgment of Time

“Our judgment does not reckon in their exact and proper order things which have come to pass at different periods of time: for many things which happened many years ago will seem nearly related to the present, and many things that are recent will seem ancient, extending back to the far-off period of our youth.”

-          Leonardo DaVinci

3^rd Part:    Impetus, Power, Movement & Life

“Impetus is a power created by movement and transmitted from the mover to the movable thing; and this movable thing has as much movement as the impetus has life.”

-          Leonardo DaVinci

4^th Part:     Gravity, Force, Movement & Percussion

“Gravity, force and material movement together with percussion are four accidental powers in which all the visible works of mortals have their being and their death.”

-          Leonardo DaVinci

5^th Part:    Flight of Time

“Wrongfully do men lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that its period is yet sufficient; but good memory wherewith Nature has endowed us causes everything long past to seem present.”

-          Leonardo DaVinci