[PDF] Fading Forest / Luca Pettinato [Concert Band (Wind Band)]

Score and Parts or Score only (you can choose)(PDF)

Duration：8'30"
Difficulty (Grade): 5

Publisher：Golden Hearts Publications（ONSA）

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Program notes:

Commissioned by the “InCrescenDO” Youth Wind Orchestra and its conductor Fabio Porte for the 2025 “Ciudad de Valencia” International Band Competition 

“Fading Forest” is not as much a heartfelt musical protest against deforestation as a symbolic acknowledgement of reality that raises questions about the future. The ever more pressing rhythm of the music represents the ever-faster pace of deforestation, and the meter steadily shrinks as our forest grows smaller and smaller with each musical measure.

The piece is made up of three parts:
- the first one is characterized by a kind of rhythmic stillness upon which the “forest theme” is slowly woven into the musical discourse;

- the second part displays a more hectic style in which the rhythmic groove leads to a climatic breaking point;

- the third part is an elegy to a once lush forest that is no longer quite so.

The whole piece is based on the “forest theme” which is heard sometimes in a fragmented way and others in variations:

Less evident is the “uncertainty motif”, which is developed in the following transpositions:

（Luca Pettinato）

Reference music：

Instrumentation：
Piccolo
Flute 1, 2
Oboe 1, 2
Bassoon 1, 2
Contrabassoon
Clarinet in Eb
Clarinet in Bb 1, 2, 3
Bass Clarinet
Contrabass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone 1, 2
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Trumpet in Bb 1, 2, 3
Flugelhorn 1, 2
Horn in F 1, 2, 3, 4
Trombone 1, 2
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Violoncello
Double Bass
Harp
Piano
Timpani
Percussion 1 (Marimba, Suspended Ride Cymbal)
Percussion 2 (Xylophone, Vibraphone)
Percussion 3 (Bass Drum, Crotales, Clash Cymbals, Tam Tam)
Percussion 4 (Djembe, Bamboo Wind Chimes)
Percussion 5 (Djembe, Caxixi, Bamboo Wind Chimes)
Percussion 6 (Drum Set, Bamboo Wind Chimes)