The Bard is a brief tone poem composed in 1913. The tone poem itself provides a profound, yet cryptic, glimpse of an elegiac, poetic world: an initial, harp-led stillness and reflection are succeeded by elemental, eruptive surges and, finally, a sense of renunciation or maybe death.
- Difficulty:
- Intermediate-Advanced
- Instrumentation:
- 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Cl(Bb), B.Cl, 2 Bsn, 4 F Hn, 2 Tpt Bb, 3 Tbn, Timp, Perc, Hp, Strings
- Duration:
- 8:00 Min.
- Page count:
- 21
- Set of Parts:
- Includes Strings count 4.4.3.2.2
- ISMN:
- 979-0-706065-63-2