Zachary Roberson

Smoky Mountain
Serenade
for Orchestra

Smoky Mountain Serenade

Fayette, Missouri
December 2012
Duration: 6' 31

Instrumentation:
2 Flute
2 Oboe
2 Clarinet
2 Bassoon
4 Horns in F
2 Trumpets
3 Trombones (1 Bass)
1 Tuba
Timpani
2 Percussion
Strings

Inspired by peak Autumn photographs of the Smoky

Mountains, this piece serves to elicit thoughts and feelings of
being present in the tree covered mountain-tops of Eastern
Tennessee as the height of Autumn dominates the
landscape and fades with wonder into another impending
winter. Motives in this piece serve to bring visions of
traveling high into the mountains, to feel the rush of the wind,
and the leaves changing colour just as they are released to
float on the breeze and cover the ground. The second set of
motives some in over top of the original, bringing to mind the
struggle of nature as Summer puts up one last fight before
resting. Solo motives then develop as animals migrate and
settle in for the colder months ahead. Then leading the
charge back into the original motives, this time in up to three
part cannon and with majestic sonorities to remind the
listener that the beauty of Autumn is not one to be forgotten

Smoky Mountain Serenade

Zachary Roberson

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