Across the Currituck Sound
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General Info
Year: 2007
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Curnow Music Press, through Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $59.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Flexible Bass Line
Timpani
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This beautiful lyric work begins slowly with a brief baritone solo and lots of expression throughout. A broad, sweeping theme, and an alternating eighth-note pattern in the clarinets, gives the impression of being over the water, which then builds nicely and soars gracefully to a quiet ending.
- Program Note from publisher
Currituck Sound is a protected inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, located in northeastern part of North Carolina and extreme southeastern Virginia. Thirty miles N-S and 3–8 miles wide, this shallow, island-filled sound is separated from the ocean by the Currituck Banks Peninsula, with no direct access to the ocean from the sound.
Currituck County's Mackay Island and Currituck National Wildlife Refuge as well as Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach border the sound and are winter habitats on the Atlantic Flyway. Many watersports activities occur in the sound, including parasailing, sea kayaking, and jet skiing. An area of barrier beaches, it is also noted for its duck and goose hunting.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Mabry Middle School Symphonic Band (Dan Welborn, conductor) - 2007
- Audio CD: The Music of Richard Saucedo - 2012
State Ratings
- North Carolina: III
Performances
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- Hunt Middle School (Burlington, Vt.) Symphonic Band – 14 May 2014
- Mabry Middle School (Marietta, Ga.) Symphonic Band (Dan Welborn, conductor) – 19 December 2007 (2007 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Across the Currituck Sound (2007)
- Appomattox (2004)
- Architect of Victory (1994)
- Atlantic Avenue (1996)
- Battle Hymn 2000 (2000)
- Black Granite (1996)
- Black Granite (adapt. Patterson) (1996/2020?)
- Christmas Latina (2004)
- Colonial Collage, A (2001)
- Diamond Prelude (1999)
- Fanfare Britannica (2001)
- Fantasia on a 13th Century Carol (2006)
- First Light on the Chesapeake
- Harbor Park Holiday
- Hero for Today (as arranger)
- Ice Breaker (2009)
- Land of Louisa
- Mayan Sports Festival (2003)
- Patriotic Salute, A (2001)
- Persis (2000)
- Pride of the Fleet (2003)
- Guardians of Peace (1999)
- Second Dawning, The (1996)
- Sing We Liberty (2006)
- The Sound of Silence (as arranger) (1964/2018)
- Splashes of Gold
- Swords Against the Sea (2001)
- The Virginians (1994)
- We Hold These Truths (1997)
- With Full Honors (1994)
Resources
- Currituck Sound, Wikipedia Accessed 25 July 2021
- Hosay, J. (2007). Across the Currituck Sound [score]. Curnow Music Press: Wilmore, Ky.
- James Hosay website Accessed 25 July 2021