Orchestra Cello, Contrabass, Piano, Timpani, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violin 3...(+)
Orchestra Cello,
Contrabass, Piano,
Timpani, Viola, Violin 1,
Violin 2, Violin 3 -
Grade 3.5
SKU:
CF.CAS73
Birthplace of the
Desert People.
Composed by Doris Gazda.
Carl Fischer Concert
String Orchestra Series.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
16+16+4+10+10+10+2+4+12
pages. Duration 4
minutes, 21 seconds. Carl
Fischer Music #CAS73.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CAS73).
ISBN
9780825894749. UPC:
798408094744. 9 x 12
inches. Key: Eb
minor.
A dynamic
new concert piece from
popular composer Doris
Gazda, Baboquivari is
mysterious at first and
then breaks into an
exciting 6/8 groove that
shifts into several
different key areas to
add to the excitement.
Perfect for contest and
festival
performances.
The
Native American people
who reside primarily in
the Sonoran Desert of
southeastern Arizona and
northwest Mexico are
known as the Tohono
O'odham. Tohono
O’odham means
Desert People. The Tohono
O’odham
reservation is the
location of the Quinlan
and Baboquivari
Mountains, which include
Kitt Peak, the Kitt Peak
National Observatory with
its numerous telescopes
and Baboquivari Peak.
Baboquivari is a
7,730-foot (2,356- meter)
granitic monolith located
about 60 miles southwest
of Tucson, Arizona. Part
of the peak lies in the
2,900,000-acre Tohono
O’odham
Reservation, the second
largest Indian
reservation in the United
States, while most of it
lies in the Baboquivari
Mountains Wilderness
Area.Baboquivari Peak is
the most sacred place to
the Tohono O'odham
people. It is the cen-
ter of the Tohono O'odham
cosmology and the home of
the creator,
I’itoi. According
to tribal legend, he
resides in a cave below
the base of the mountain
which is regarded by the
O'odham nation as the
navel of the world, a
place where the earth
opened and the people
emerged after the great
flood. Baboquivari Peak
is also sometimes
referred to as I'itoi
Mountain. In the native
O’odham language,
it is referred to as Waw
Kiwulik, meaning narrow
about the
middle.Baboquivari Peak
was mentioned in the
journals of Jesuit
missionary Padre Eusebio
Francisco Kino
(1645-1711), who made
many expeditions into
this region of the
Sonoran Desert. Beginning
in 1699, Kino introduced
Spanish culture and
Christianity to the
desert dwellers. He
established at least
twenty Spanish Missions
in the area, most of
which were in the Tohono
O'odham nation. The
Tohono O'odham tell the
story that at the
beginning of the Spanish
conquest of what is
present day Arizona, a
certain Spanish officer
and his men tried to dig
their way into
Baboquivari. Suddenly,
the ground under them
opened and Baboquivari
swallowed them. This
story has similarities to
that of Francisco
Vásquez de Coronado's
search for the Seven
Cities of Cibola and a
place called Quivira,
where, he was told, he
could get his hands on
unlimited quantities of
gold. The gold had a way
of disappearing while
they were
searching.Today, the
mountain offers a
strenuous climb for
experienced hikers. It
has a waist which was
overcome at one time
through the use of
ladders. Today's mountain
climbers get past the
indentation that
encircles the mountain by
using ropes where
necessary.