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Aquatica
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 4:50
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $78.00; (digital) - $78.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute I
Flute II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
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-III
E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Claves
- Crash Cymbals
- Maracas
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Triangle
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Aquatica was commissioned by the Salisbury High School Concert Band, Rachel Reinecke, Director, as a musical tribute and remembrance of band director and school superintendent Robert Gross, and reflects both his enjoyment of life and water sports.
The piece opens atmospherically in tranquil beauty – like a serene lake, a calm sea, or an eerie underwater scene. After a brief, meditative transition scored for four solo instruments (representing Gross's immediate family), the piece bursts into a spirited 6/8 theme that suggest both water creatures and craft moving playfully through the waves. The material is developed and recapitulated in a stirring way to convey the fun and adventure Gross found in his family, work and play.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Sandhills Wind Symphony (Buies Creek, N.C. ) (Charles Dwayne Wilson, conductor) – 8 November 2018
- Austin (Tx.) Civic Wind Ensemble (Robert Laguna, conductor) - 20 October 2017
- Plymouth (N.H.) State University Symphonic Band (Mark A. Stickney, conductor) – 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Escape from Thunder Mountain (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Rock Solid (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Aesop's Fables (1999)
- Appalachian Hoedown
- Aquatica (2014)
- At the Feast of Stephen (2009)
- Awake the Iron (2010)
- Balkan Seven (2018)
- Celebratory Fanfare (2017)
- Country Dance
- Concert Piece (Horn and Band)
- Dorian Haiku (2014)
- Dragonship (2018)
- El Cid (2014)
- Escape from Thunder Mountain (2020)
- Extraordinary Machines of Clockwork and Steam (2019)
- Fantasy on an Old English Air
- Figurations
- Freedom Brigade
- Galliard (2019)
- Ghosts in the Graveyard
- Golden Legacy
- Hanukah Is Here
- Joyful Rock
- Lion of Ireland (2011)
- Magic Valley
- Morning Star (2005)
- Night Journey (Watson)
- On Holiday
- Rock Solid (2020)
- Siege of Badon Hill
- Slam Jam! (2004)
- Terracotta Warriors (2017)
- Walkin' Cool
Resources
- Perusal score
- Scott Watson website Accessed 19 October 2017