Air Music is a set of tenvariations fororchestra by the American composerNed Rorem. The work was completed in 1974 and was first performed by theCincinnati Symphony Orchestra on December 5, 1975. The piece won the 1976Pulitzer Prize for Music.^[1][2][3]

Air Music has a duration of approximately 20 minutes and is cast in tenmovements:

1. All players
2. All players
3. Woodwinds, piano and strings
4. Solo tuba and violin with flutes, oboes, English horn, contrabassoon, and violins
5. Three clarinets, three trumpets, snare drum, solo violin and strings pizzicato
6. Trombone and cello, with piano, violin, and violas
7. Flutes and violins
8. Solo viola with bassoon, four horns, and harp
9. Two oboes, English horn, violas
10. All players

The work is scored for a large orchestra consisting of threeflutes (doublingpiccolo), threeoboes, fourclarinets, threebassoons, fourhorns, threetrumpets, threetrombones,tuba, percussion,harp,celesta,piano, andstrings.^[1]

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