Composed by Bedrich Smetana. Arranged by David Magrané. This edition: pdf, streaming. 19th Century, Classical, Patriotic, Romantic Period. 173 pages. David Magrané #1406048. Published by David Magrané (A0.1846467).
"From Bohemian Fields and Groves", the fourth symphonic poem from Bedřich Smetana’s cycle Má Vlast, is one of the most vivid musical portraits of the Czech landscape ever written. The work unfolds as a broad symphonic panorama, evoking forests, open countryside, festive village life, and the quiet majesty of nature. Its opening pages, built on spacious sonorities and luminous orchestral colours, create an almost monumental sense of landscape, while the central sections introduce lively dance rhythms and pastoral character before returning to a triumphant conclusion.
This concert band arrangement has been conceived with a strong commitment to fidelity and transparency. The musical substance of Smetana’s original score is preserved in full, without added musical material. The orchestral writing has simply been redistributed idiomatically across the instruments of the concert band, allowing wind players to recreate the colour, energy, and structural clarity of the original symphonic texture.
Scored for Grade 4.5 concert band, the arrangement offers a rewarding balance between accessibility and musical depth. It provides engaging material across the ensemble while preserving the dramatic architecture, orchestral colour, and expressive breadth that define Smetana’s masterpiece. An excellent repertoire choice for advanced school ensembles, university wind orchestras, and community bands seeking a faithful and musically satisfying adaptation of this cornerstone of the symphonic repertoire.
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Composed by Bedrich Smetana. Arranged by David Magrané. This edition: pdf, streaming. 19th Century, Classical, Patriotic, Romantic Period. 173 pages. David Magrané #1406048. Published by David Magrané (A0.1846467).
"From Bohemian Fields and Groves", the fourth symphonic poem from Bedřich Smetana’s cycle Má Vlast, is one of the most vivid musical portraits of the Czech landscape ever written. The work unfolds as a broad symphonic panorama, evoking forests, open countryside, festive village life, and the quiet majesty of nature. Its opening pages, built on spacious sonorities and luminous orchestral colours, create an almost monumental sense of landscape, while the central sections introduce lively dance rhythms and pastoral character before returning to a triumphant conclusion.
This concert band arrangement has been conceived with a strong commitment to fidelity and transparency. The musical substance of Smetana’s original score is preserved in full, without added musical material. The orchestral writing has simply been redistributed idiomatically across the instruments of the concert band, allowing wind players to recreate the colour, energy, and structural clarity of the original symphonic texture.
Scored for Grade 4.5 concert band, the arrangement offers a rewarding balance between accessibility and musical depth. It provides engaging material across the ensemble while preserving the dramatic architecture, orchestral colour, and expressive breadth that define Smetana’s masterpiece. An excellent repertoire choice for advanced school ensembles, university wind orchestras, and community bands seeking a faithful and musically satisfying adaptation of this cornerstone of the symphonic repertoire.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
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