Mist

Kjos String Orchestra
Grade 3
Full Conductor Score
SO262F
$6.00
Shirl Jae Atwell
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The Composer
Shirl Jae Atwell earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Kansas State
Teachers College and a Master of Music Theory/Composition degree at the University of
Louisville. She also completed four years of post-graduate work in composition at the
University of South Carolina.
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In 1984, Ms. Atwell won the Clifford Shaw Memorial Award for Kentucky Composers;
was commissioned to write Fear Not, Little Flock for the 175th anniversary of the Little
Flock Baptist Church; and saw the New York City debut of her first opera, Sagegrass. In
1991, another of her operas, Esta Hargis, was premièred at Emporia State University in
Kansas, followed shortly by the 1992 debut of Handelian, a work for string orchestra
premièred by the Jefferson County All-County Middle School Orchestra. The Southern
Baptist Seminary Orchestra in Louisville premièred her Movements Four South, an
orchestral suite, in 1993. That year also saw the placement of six Shirl Jae Atwell scores in the permanent collection
of the Paris Bibliothèque Internationale de Musique Contemporaine at the invitation of the Contemporary Music
International Information Service.
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Ms. Atwell was named the 1996 winner of the National School Orchestra Association composition contest with
her string orchestra piece Modus á Four. She is also the 1997 winner of the Texas Orchestra Directors Association
contest with a string orchestra piece entitled Drifen.
Lucy, the ballet, with music by Ms. Atwell and choreography by Alun Jones, was premièred by the Louisville
Ballet in January 1999. Lucy was inspired by the discovery of a 3.2 million year old skeleton, and was the subject of
a Kentucky Education Television documentary that was aired on November 10, 1999.
In June 2000, the televised production of Lucy was awarded the Arts & Culture Emmy by the Ohio Valley
Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; in July, a Certificate of Merit was awarded to Lucy
by Unda-USA, the National Catholic Association for Communicators; and in January 2001, Lucy was awarded 2nd
place by the National Education Television Association for program performance. In 2002, the Greensboro
Symphony Orchestra of North Carolina recorded the music to the ballet Lucy, which is now available on Albany
Records. The compact disc also includes the orchestral suite Movements Four South, and three string orchestra works,
Pulsar, Meander, and Drifen.
In 2005 and 2006, Ms. Atwell was commissioned to write works for the McEachern High School String
Orchestra of Powder Springs, Georgia, and the Oceanfront String Orchestra of Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 2007, she
was commissioned to write a string quartet and a full orchestra piece for the 2007 Kentucky All-State Orchestra. She
is currently working on her second ballet suite entitled Ela.
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An active composer with many commissions and publications to her credit, Ms. Atwell retired from full-time
string teaching with the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2007. She is looking forward to
spending more time composing, conducting, arranging, and presenting. Ms. Atwell maintains active memberships in
ASCAP, Music Educators National Conference, ASTA with NSOA, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, and the
Kentucky Music Educators Association.
The Composition
Imagine yourself in a mist of sound where melodies and harmonies tempt you into believing that B minor is the
key, but in actuality it is only the tonal center around which the music moves. There are no definite cadences or tonal
clarity, only a B pedal point that moves this work from one section to the next. Mist is vague and undefined, creating
impressions that appear and then fade into something different. It is an illusion found only in mist.
Instrumentation List (Set C)
8 – 1st Violin
8 – 2nd Violin
5 – Viola
5 – Cello
5 – String Bass
1 – Full Conductor Score
Additional scores and parts are available.
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Full Conductor Score
Approx. time – 2:55
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Violins
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Shirl Jae Atwell
Serenely (q = 96)
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 
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2

 
3
4
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5
6


 


 



 

 

Cello
mf







mf
  
 
   
 
mp
     

String Bass


mf
,  



 

13
8
 
 
9


10
11
  
12
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Vlns.


SA

  
2
Vla.


  

Cello

   

 

p
 
mp

      
  
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mp
  

p
   
14
15

      




mp
p
   

mf
mp
Str. Bass

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   
     
mf
E
  
mp
1
 7

  
mp
mp
Viola

 

      
  


mp

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

 




 
 
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Vlns.


2
17
Cello


    



 
   

     
    
 
   
     

   
      

  



 
 
   
24
1
 

Vlns.


25


26
   
Vla.
  
Cello
Str. Bass
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
27
4   1

2
  
mp
29
p

 
    

4

mp

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
2
 

   

p
    
  
 
mp
4

   
1
30

     

28
mp
mp
  2 
4

    
  
 
SA
2

1
4 
  2
1

1
Str. Bass
23
22
21
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 
      

  
20
19
    
  
 
    
Vla.
18
E
1
 


     
      
  
p

p
 

p




5
31
1
  
 
33




  

34
32

35


2
  
Vla.
      

mp

 

mp
  
Cello
 
       

 


Str. Bass

mf
  


4  1

    

      

     

mf
    
M
PL
mp

 
E

 
 

mf
mp
Vlns.
 36  


mf
 2



 

1
2
4
mf
mp
41
   

37
1
Vlns.
39
  
Vla.
Cello
Str. Bass
  
  
1 
 

40

   42 






  




43
44
p

  
SA
2

 

38


 
mp

p
  


   

   
p
 
 


   






 
mp
 
p
            


mp
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45
Vlns.
2
Vla.
46
  
47

 
  
 
   
    
 

M
PL
     
  
  
    

54

 55 
4
1 
56
 
  
  

  
 
   
3 57 
 1 
 

 
    

 
  59 

 
 
      

 
  
 
mf
4 1


 1 1
 


3



f




  
 
60
f

  
mf
mf
  
58

    
mf
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

SA
2
Str. Bass

mf
Vlns.
Cello
     
52

          
53
1
51
50
 
4 1  1 4
    

Str. Bass
49

 
           
Cello
Vla.
 48  
E
1
  
 

f

2

f
4 1
   
f
1

7
1
Vlns.
62

  
2


  
Vla.
Cello

Str. Bass

Vlns.

 
Vla.
Cello
Str. Bass
65

66

67

68

 

 
 
  
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


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
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
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mp
4
  , 
 2 
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


1 2 4 
 2 
1
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mp
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
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71
 
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mp

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   
 

  

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
mf
SA
2
64
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mp
70
1
63
M
PL
 

E
   

61
 

   74 

 
mf

   75 
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
  
  
 
  

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
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76





        
mf
 
mf

1 

  
4  2 1 
4

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
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  
4 2 1


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
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
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Vlns.
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
79
80



 

 





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mp

Str. Bass
84
     





  

           
      
  

M
PL
mp
83
82
        



 
    
 
    
    
Cello
81


mp
Vla.

mp


2
78
E
1
 

 


 

4 2
   4     
      



mp
85
1
Vlns.


86
87
   
 

Vla.
Cello
Str. Bass
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89

mf


90

91
fp

92
93

fade out ppp
rall.
     
SA
2
 

   
          
   
      
          

mf
   
fp
      
mf

mf

mf

fp
   
fp

fade out ppp
rall.

fp





fade out ppp
rall.

 
rall.
mp
rall.


fade out ppp
 
p

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