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Blue Mambo
Contents
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00; (digital) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cabasa
- Claves
- Concert Toms (2)
- Congas
- Hi-Hat
- Mambo Bell (or cowbell)
- Marimba
- Shaker
- Suspended Cymbal
- Timbales
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Opening with a lyric section featuring a solo for flugelhorn or trumpet, this appealing Latin work includes sensuous melodies surrounded by lush and bluesy harmonies. The up-tempo mambo then kicks in with an infectious percussion groove which accompanies the melodies and riffs from the full ensemble.
- Program Note by publisher
Blue Mambo was commissioned by the Woodward Academy Middle School Advanced Band, directed by Aaron Hill, and premiered on April 23, 2017. Founded in 1900, Woodward Academy is the oldest independent school in Atlanta and the largest in the continental United States. In its early years, the school had a cordial relationship with the country of Cuba, resulting in a number of Cuban students attending. Honoring this history and looking to the future, Blue Mambo employs the mambo dance style, which developed in Cuba.
- Program Note from the Fillmore Wind Band concert program, 22 December 2017
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Carlisle High School Band (Price, Tx.) (Christopher Clifton, conductor) - 15 February 2019 (2019 TMEA Conference, San Antonio)
- Phoenix (N.Y.) Community Band (David Frateschi, conductor) - 21 May 2018
- Fillmore Wind Band (Cincinnati, Ohio) (Stephen Lytle, conductor) - 22 December 2017 (2017 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by this Composer
- American Salute, An (1989)
- Ancient Voices (1994)
- Blue Mambo (2017)
- Celtic Air and Dance (2007)
- Celtic Air and Dance No. 3 (2011)
- Christmas Time Is Here (as arranger)
- Crossings in Time (2006)
- Dansbury Run (2013)
- Dialogues (2003)
- Down by the Salley Gardens (as arranger) (2006)
- Down to the River (as arranger) (2019)
- Earthdance (2010)
- First Suite in E-flat Themes (as arranger) (2006)
- Fractures in Time (2017)
- Great Movie Adventures (as arranger) (2006)
- Horkstow Grange from "Lincolnshire Posy" (as arranger)
- Hymn to the Fallen (as arranger) (1998/2000)
- John Williams: Movie Adventures (as arranger) (1977/1999)
- Lament and Tribal Dances (2001)
- Last Full Measure (2013)
- Lisbon from "Lincolnshire Posy" (as adapter) (1937/2017)
- Lost Lady Found (as arranger) (1937/2011)
- Marches of the Armed Forces (as arranger) (1991)
- Memory (as arranger)
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (as arranger)
- Monmouth Overture (1999)
- Music from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (as arranger) (1977/2016)
- Northland Pines (2013)
- On Joyful Wing (2018)
- On the Wings of Swallows (2000)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (as arranger) (2006)
- Pop and Rock Legends: Music of the Beatles (as arranger) (2010)
- Prelude and Pursuit (2013)
- Quad City Stomp (2008)
- River of the Ancients (2004)
- Root Beer Rag (as arranger) (1974/1981)
- Rumble on the High Plains (2005)
- Salute to the Duke
- Sawdust City Celebration (2012)
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (as arranger) (1967/2007)
- Sleepsong (as arranger) (2019)
- Stardance
- Suite from "MASS" (as arranger)
- Swamp Rabbit Stomp (2016)
- Themes from "New World Symphony" (as arranger) (1893)
- To Soar with Eagles (2013)
- Troy! (2009)
- Two Movements from "Lincolnshire Posy" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1937/2019)
- Villages (2014)
- When the Sun Breaks Through the Mist (2006)
- The Willow Tree (as arranger) (1995/2018)
- Year of the Dragon (Sweeney) (2000)
- Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon (as arranger) (2006)
Resources
None discovered thus far.
