Beneath
Subtitle: For Symphonic Wind Band and Pre-recorded Soundscape. From the three-movement suite, Immersion (2010)
General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Activist Music LLC
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $150.00 |   (digital) - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
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 I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Splash Cymbals
- Suspended Cymbals
- Tam-Tam
- Vibraphone
Audio Accompaniment Track
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Beneath brings listeners on a sonic journey into a private, aquatic realm, with the heart-wrenching song of a Pacific humpback whale as a tour guide. Below the surface of the ocean is a world of liquid beauty and grace hidden from our eyes and from our imagination. Even in this habitat of life and hope, exquisite creatures remain vulnerable to events triggered from beyond their fragile sanctuary. Follow your ears and your heart to the depths of a place we sometimes forget to look.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) Wind Ensemble (Joseph Higgins, conductor) - 23 October 2021
- Washington State University (Pullman) Wind Ensemble (Danh Pham, conductor) - 9 February 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Count to Ten (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Kitchen Sync (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Kitchen Sync. See also: Suite Treats
- Passages (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Ascent (2020)
- Beneath. See: Immersion (2010)
- Bioplasm (flute choir) (2004/2012)
- Bioplasm (flute quartet) (2004)
- Breathe (2020)
- Count to Ten (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Depth. See: Immersion
- Even Deeper (2014)
- Free (2022)
- Homecoming (2008)
- Immersion (2010)
- Kitchen Sync (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Kitchen Sync. See also: Suite Treats
- Lights Out (2015)
- Liquid Compass (2014)
- Moment (2016)
- Off the Edge (2019)
- Paper Cut (2010)
- Passages (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Pop Music (2022)
- Rock Music (2016)
- Surface. See: Immersion (2010)
- Suspended (2021)
- Tight Squeeze (2012)
- Train of Thought (sextet) (2015)
- Trains of Thought (concert band) (2015/2017)
Resources
- Alex Shapiro website Accessed 7 July 2020
- Perusal score
- Shapiro, A. (2010). Immersion : Symphony For Winds, Percussion and Pre-Recorded Soundscape [score]. Activist Music: [Friday Harbor, Wash.?].
- Technical Setup Information