IN MEMORY OF MY DAD WHO RECENTLY PASSED AWAY. THIS IS A COMMUNION HYMN BASED ON A MEDIEVAL KIEVAN CHANT MELODY AND PSALM 74. WRITTEN BY PAVEL TCHESNOKOV IN 1912. TRANSCRIBED FOR BAND BY BRUCE HOUSEKNECHT. FROM MY SOPH. YEAR IN THE TMEA ALL STATE BAND
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Story behind the song
Salvation is Created is a choral work composed by Pavel Tchesnokov in 1912. It was one of the very last sacred works he composed before he was forced to turn to secular arts by the oppressive Soviet Union. Although he never heard his own composition performed, his children had the opportunity years following his death. Salvation is Created was originally published in 1913 by J. Fischer and Bro. but its popularity drove editors to produce many different versions in both Russian and English. Scored for either six or eight voices (SATTBB or SSAATTBB), the work is a communion hymn based on a Kievan syndonal chant melody and Psalm 74.
Symphonic wind arrangement:
Although this arrangement was almost an exact transcription of Tchesnokovas original choral work, Bruce Houseknecht transposed it up a half step to C minor and E flat major in order to accommodate the register of the symphonic wind ensemble. He also rewrote the work using a 4/4 meter rather than cut time to make phrases more evident and the notation much easier to read. In measures 27 and 67 of the vocal setting, Tchesnokov utilizes a bar of 1/2 time to emphasize the text changing. Up until then, the phrase Salvation is createda is repeated. Houseknechts arrangement eliminates the meter change entirely. Instead he uses an eighth rest to maintain Tchesnokovs intent to emphasize the new phrases beginning in measures 14 and 35. Other than these few changes, Houseknecht does not deviate from the original work.