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Gallipoli Song
Gallipoli Song
Jensen
Gallipoli Song
For Baritone, Piano, Violin and Trumpet
Based on the journal of
George Wallace Bollinger (25, NZ)
Notes on Performing:
Baritone: Use vibrato sparingly, just at the end of notes. The voice needs to be
very natural and in more of a popular song idiom than a classical song.
Glissandi are to be used more like an exponential curve rather than the usual linear
slide from one note to the other. Make the glissandi natural and dont force it to sound
like a horror film or theremin. If necessary pull back slightly on the dynamic while gliss'ing.
Piano: Part 1(First Movement): You need to be the rhythm, but the baritone will be straying away from
the beat so feel free to pull back on the down-beat accents in favor of a more subconscious pulse.
Rehearsals will show you where to ease back and where to punch the accents. Once the trumpet
solo starts, maintain constant accents, unrelenting to the interaction of the solo line.
Part 2 (Second Movement): Maintain a very steady pulse, driving everyone along. The Ricochet part
in bar 203 should be background detail, not in anyway compromising the Baritone's vocal line.
Ease back on the dynamic if necessary, until the ricochets are registered in the listeners ears, but
not consciously noted as a stand-out detail.
Violin: Your purpose in this piece is largely background textures and the emotional underpinning
of the text. Keep your playing smooth and unobstructing, attacking notes carefully and starting lower
than the dynamic marked.
Trumpet: Part 1 (First Movement): Your playing will be background details until the Baritone line ends
and your solo begins on bar 89. You essentially follow the baritone line, but you act as history,
remembering and acknowledging what has happened. By the end of the solo, you are celebrating.
Part 2 (Second Movement): Your playing will be bugle calls only, background details never to outshine
the baritone until your solo in bar 237. Then you again act as the eye of history, remembering and then
finally celebrating the heroic acts of these young men.
Trumpet in Bb
Violin
Baritone
Quick q. = 130
Piano
Vln.
Bar.
The
simile
day
is
beau
Pno.
mp sub. p
Tpt.
strong mf
ti - fu - lly
fine
We're stea
ming
at
10
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
full
speed
close
to
simile accents
-sustained
throughout
movement
Pno.
14
Tpt.
Vln.
mp
con sord
mp
Bar.
the
Pno.
res
of
Ga -
19
Tpt.
Vln.
mf
smooth legato
Bar.
lli
Pno.
po - li
mf
mp
Vln.
Bar.
what
Pno.
23
Tpt.
a day
of
da -
ays
28
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
mp
mf
we
Pno.
have mo - ved
a - mongst
roar
of
33
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
thu - un -
Pno.
mp
der
(oh)
38
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
Pno.
Vln.
Bar.
at
pre - sent we
mp
mp
p
3
are
Pno.
mp
42
Tpt.
wi
thin
ve - ry
few
miles
46
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
Tpt.
Vln.
our
wa - ar - shi
51
Pno.
mp
ips
mf
and
mp
mf
mf
Bar.
mp
of
Pno.
mp
mp
f
what a
si
mf
55
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
Pno.
mp
ight!
gliss
mf
their
big
guns ne
mp
60
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
ver
cea
Pno.
se
and
as
we
10
64
Tpt.
Vln.
mp
Bar.
mf
see
Pno.
the
fla
ash
and
burst
of
the
69
Tpt.
mf
Vln.
mf
Bar.
shells
Pno.
on
mp
mp
mf
land
mf
we
thi
11
73
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
Pno.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
mp
thou - sands
of
mp
Turks
ink
mp
Bar.
78
Tpt.
mf
must
be
go
ing
un
der
12
82
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
mf
(ooo)
Pno.
87
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
trumpet solo
Bar.
mf
mf
simile accents
13
3
92
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
97
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
mf
101
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mp
14
106
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
Vln.
Pno.
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
mf
114
110
Tpt.
mf
15
118
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
mf
123
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
Vln.
Pno.
128
Tpt.
mp
mf
mf
16
132
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
Vln.
Pno.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
mp
142
Tpt.
137
Tpt.
mf
mf
17
147
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
152
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
mf
mf
157
Tpt.
mf
mp
18
162
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
mf
mf
Vln.
Pno.
mf
Pno.
Vln.
mf
171
Tpt.
166
Tpt.
19
Part II - Ashore
q= 91
176
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
senza sord.
pp
mp
Bar.
was ro
Pno.
mf
mp
mf gliss
gliss
mf
mf
oared out
mp
f
gliss
mf
Vln.
mp
180
Tpt.
q= 91
Pno.
yers
are a - long
20
184
Tpt.
Vln.
non vib
Bar.
mp
mf
Pno.
187
Tpt.
Vln.
pp
Bar.
mp
mf
Pno.
a - m
on the shore
3
in the thick of it
21
191
Tpt.
Vln.
mp
mf
mf
Bar.
Pno.
Vln.
mp
Bar.
Pno.
sec -
tion
195
Tpt.
mf
mf
mf
mf
22
mp
mf
198
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
Pno.
mf
Vln.
mf
for the
surf - boats
mp
f
strong mf
mf
Bar.
mf
mp
ting
201
strong mf
Tpt.
mp
wai -
to take us a - shore
stray
Like Ricochets
Pno.
mp
23
204
Tpt.
Vln.
us
mf
mp
Bar.
Pno.
and
su -dden -ly
pri -vate To
mf
Vln.
mf
mp
207
Tpt.
mf
ding a - round
Pno.
mp
mf
Bar.
3 3
who was stan - ding right in front
mp
mp
hill
of me
dropped
with a
24
209
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
mp
mf
212
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mp
pp
in the
fore -
mf
pp
was shot
mp
Bar.
Pno.
head
mp
it
25
216
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
was a
Pno.
Tpt.
Vln.
Bar.
to
get
a - shore
6
pp
mf
mf
trumpet solo
mf
mf
mf
Pno.
re -lief
slow gliss
218
mf
26
223
Tpt.
mf
Vln.
Pno.
Vln.
mf
Pno.
227
Tpt.
violin solo
mf
mp
mf
27
231
Tpt.
Vln.
mp
Pno.
mp
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mf
235
mf
end solo
mp
28
239
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
mp
mp
mp
mf
242
Vln.
Pno.
mp
mf
mf
mf
mf
Tpt.
mf
245
Tpt.
Vln.
Pno.
Pno.
mf
mf
mf
mf
mf
249
Vln.
Tpt.
29
mf
mp
mp
mp
mf
30
252
Tpt.
Vln.
mp
Pno.
mp
mf