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Notes for Myaku by David Dzubay |
 | | In April and May of 1999, Ray Cramer conducted the first performances of Myaku, with the Indiana University Wind Ensemble and the Musashino Academy of Music Wind Ensemble. |
| | Opening with gentle waves of woodwind oscillations and building to powerfully repetitive arpeggios near the end, this fanfare for wind band takes two main ideas as themes: Pulse (Myaku, in Japanese), and the number 7 (from the 7 decades the Musashino Academy is celebrating). |
| | Myaku is dedicated to Ray Cramer, Director of Bands at Indiana University and tireless supporter of contemporary music for wind band. |
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