THIS COMPOSITION WAS WRITTEN FOR A YOUNGER BAND BY WILLIAM F. MCBETH IN 1979. IT IS BASED ON A MOTIVE OF REPEATED NOTES. CAVATA IS A TERM USED FOR REPETITIVE, RECITATIVE MUSIC, ESPECIALLY IN THE BAROQUE PERIOD. PERFORMED BY THE 1980 TEXAS TECH BAND.
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Story behind the song
William Francis McBeth was born March 9, 1933 in Ropesville, Texas (near Lubbock). He attended Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. McBeth is a prolific composer, whose musical repertoire has become a universal standard in wind band literature. He is also one of the most respected conductors of the present day.
McBeth has received the ASCAP Special Award every year since 1965. In 1988, he was awarded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia's Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award for his achievement and continued contribution to American music.
From 1957 until his retirement in 1996, McBeth taught at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. In 1975, he was named Composer Laureate of Arkansas, the first Composer Laureate named in the United States.