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Bright Sunny Days
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 3:45
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A Kjos Music Co
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00br />
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
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
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bar Chimes
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Cabasa
- Chimes
- China Cymbals
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Orchestra Chimes
- Sandpaper Blocks
- Slide Whistle
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Temple Blocks
- Triangle (2)
- Vibraphone
- Vibra-slap
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Bright Sunny Days opens with diminished chords hinting at the tension before the final school bell rings on the last day of school. The clock chimes and summer begins! This fast, light-hearted piece will have your students dreaming of the summer days ahead!
- Program Note from publisher
Bright Sunny Days was commissioned by Kimberly Conklin and the J.T. Lambert Intermediate School 7th and 8th Grade Band in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Then genesis of the piece came from "mini-essays" that Ms. Conklin assigned to her band members, asking them "What would you like our commission to be about?" Although the responses were incredibly varied, some ideas recurred with regularity. These ideas included writing a piece that was both fast and fun to play, and one that celebrated the end of the school year and the beginning of summer.
The resultant piece, then, begins with the clock ticking toward the end of the final day of school. The winds are playing rising diminished chords (regular increasing excitement) and the chimes are playing an augmented version of the traditional Westminster chimes. The pitch material becomes the melodic basis of much of the rest of the piece. After short introduction, Bright Sunny Days is simply a joyful celebration of summer, set in quasi-rondo form and featuring a complex metric structure.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Washington Union High School (Fresno, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Robert Madrid, conductor) - 13 April 2018 (2018 San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) Concert Band Invitational)
- Washington Union High School (Fresno, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Robert Madrid, conductor) -16 March 2018 (2018 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- Illinois State University (Normal) University Band (Johannes Krohn, conductor) – 26 April 2017
- Loyola College Symphonic Band – 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alchemy (2008/2013)
- All the Pretty Little Horses. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Ancient Runes (2017)
- Apples (2018)
- Branden's Rainbow (1997/2002)
- Bright Sunny Days (2013)
- By My Side (2018)
- Casus Belli (2018)
- Celebration In Brass (1995)
- Concerto for Percussion (as transcriber) (1994/1997)
- Conversations with the Night (1994)
- Dance, from All Hail the Power
- December Dance (2005)
- Diamond Jubilee Suite (2018)
- Distorted Images: A Jazzman's Nightmare (1989)
- A Fallen Leaf (2004)
- Fanfare: In Memoriam (2015)
- Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa (2003)
- Frenzy (2010)
- The Four Horsemen (1989)
- A Glimpse through the Trees (2014)
- Grant Them Eternal Rest (2003)
- Havener Fanfare (2012)
- Heirloom (2009)
- I Am (1990)
- John Henry (1990)
- Joyride (2003/2008)
- Kinetic Energy (1994)
- Kirkpatrick Fanfare (1999)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2006)
- Metamorphosis (2013)
- Old Ben's Farm (2016/2019)
- On the Merrimack (2010)
- Ovations (1995)
- Phoenix (2020)
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Relentless (2000)
- Scarborough Fair. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Scherzo (1995)
- Scherzo No 2 (2013)
- Shades of Ivory (1996)
- Simple Song (1995)
- Snowflakes Dancing (2012/2016)
- Song for Lyndsay (2005)
- Song for My Children (2013)
- Song for My Parents (2020)
- Song of Loudest Praise, A (2010)
- Song of the Sea Maidens (1994)
- Stamp, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Star-Crossed (2013)
- Symphony No. 1 for Winds and Percussion (1997)
- Symphony No. 3 (1999)
- Symphony No. 4 (2006)
- Symphony No. 6 (2012)
- Symphony No. 8 (2015-2016)
- Symphony No. 10 (2019)
- This Is the Drum (2013)
- Thoughts of You (1998)
- Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger (2007/2012)
- All the Pretty Little Horses (as arranger) (2014)
- Scarborough Fair (as arranger) (2013)
- Time Streams (After Tricycle) (2011)
- To Break Earth's Sleep (2015)
- Tricycle (1997)
- Twilight of the Gods (2010)
- An Uncommon Man (1993)
- Unraveling (2006)
- Urban Scenes (1993)
- The Vikings (2015)