Sequoia

Sequoyah (1767–1843), inventor of the Cherokee syllabary.

Sequoia, Sequoya or Sequoyah may also refer to:

Biology

  • Sequoioideae, a three-genus subfamily of the cypress family
  • Sequoia (genus), a genus with one living and several fossil species
  • Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwood, found along the coast of California
  • Sequoiadendron giganteum, giant sequoia (the sequoia tree), found on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada of California
  • Metasequoia, dawn redwood
  • Geography

  • Canyon, California, formerly Sequoya
  • Sequoyah, Oklahoma, small unincorporated community in northeastern Oklahoma
  • Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, county in mid-eastern Oklahoma bordering Arkansas
  • Sequoia (composition)

    Sequoia is an orchestral composition by the American composer Joan Tower. The work was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra with support from the Jerome Foundation. It was first performed on May 18, 1981 in Alice Tully Hall by the American Composers Orchestra under the conductor Dennis Russell Davies. The piece is dedicated to the concertmistress and first horn player of the orchestra, Jean and Paul Ingraham, respectively.Sequoia was Tower's first major orchestral composition and one of the composer's most performed works.

    Composition

    Sequoia has a duration of roughly 16 minutes and is composed in three continuous movements. The music is abstractly inspired by the genus of redwood coniferous trees called sequoias of the Northern California coastal forests. Tower described her influences in the score program notes, writing:

    In Sequoia, that concept is not only very much present in the score but it actually led to the title (which is meant in an abstract rather than a pictorial sense). What fascinated me about sequoias, those giant California redwood trees, was the balancing act nature had achieved in giving them such great height.

    Sequoia (genus)

    Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. The only extant species of the genus is Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southwestern Oregon in the United States. The two other genera, Sequoiadendron and Metasequoia, in the subfamily Sequoioideae are closely related to Sequoia. It includes the largest trees in the world.

    Several extinct species have been named from fossils, including Sequoia affinis, Sequoia chinensis of China, Sequoia langsdorfii, Sequoia dakotensis of South Dakota (Maastrichtian), and Sequoia magnifica.

    Etymology

    The name Sequoia was first published as a genus name by the Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher in 1847. However, he left no specific reasons for choosing that name, and there is no record of anyone else speaking to him about its origin.

    The most common modern guess is that Endlicher, a published linguist as well as a botanist, named the genus in honor of Sequoyah, the inventor of the first Cherokee writing system. As far back as the 1860s, it has also been suggested that the name is instead an alteration of the Latin word for "sequence", since the species is known to be a follower or remnant of massive ancient, extinct species, and thus the next in a sequence.

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    Sequoia

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