Orb and Sceptre

Coronation March

for orchestra

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Composition:
1952–3

First Public Performance:
2 June 1953. Westminster Abbey, London. Coronation Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conductor.

Duration:
About 7 minutes

Dedication:
To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C59

Instrumentation:

3 flutes (third doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 3 clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 3 percussion (side drum, bass drum, cymbals, tambourine) – harp – organ (optional) – strings

Manuscript:

Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 628. Autograph full score. 31 pages.

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Score and parts are available on hire.

Arrangements:

Arranged for reduced orchestra, by Roy Douglas.
Instrumentation: 2 flutes (second doubling piccolo), 1 or 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 1 or 2 bassoons – 2 or 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba (optional) – timpani, 2 to 4 percussion – harp – strings
Alternate instrumentation: Piano – strings
Publication: Oxford University Press. Piano/conductor score, 1953, 019 3683032 (discontinued). Score and parts are available on hire.

Arranged for military band, by Norman Richardson.
Publication: Boosey and Hawkes. Score, 1953, QMB 188, and parts. Discontinued.

Arranged for piano solo, by Roy Douglas.
Publication: Oxford University Press. Score, 1953, 019 3739216. Discontinued.

Arranged for organ solo, by Sir William McKie.
Publication: Oxford University Press. Score, 1953, 019 3758733.

Arranged for brass band, by Eric Ball.
Instrumentation: Soprano cornet, 8 cornets, flugelhorn, 3 horns, 2 baritone horns, 2 trombones, bass trombone, 2 euphonium, 2 bass horns in B-flat, 2 bass horns in E-flat – timpani, percussion (side drum)
Publication: Oxford University Press. Score, 1979, 019 368537X. Set of parts, 019 3685388.

Arranged for organ solo, by Robert Gower.
Publication: Oxford University Press. Included in A Walton Organ Album, 1996, 019 3758709.
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: A Walton Organ Album]

Recordings:

WilliamWalton.net – Catalogue of Works – Orchestral Music