Canovacci
Subtitle: Commedia for Winds
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 5:50
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maecenas Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £76.00 | Score Only (print) - £20.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn (optional)
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon (optional)
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet (optional)
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
B-flat Cornet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tenor Drum
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by Alfred Reed, McAlister's lively overture is a tribute to the swaggering world of the Italian commedia dell 'arte and the picaresque characters who strut through its robustly scored pages.
- Program Note from publisher
For Alfred Reed and the Senzoku Gakuen Wind Orchestra.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Senzoku Gakuen Wind Orchestra (Alfred Reed, conductor)
- Audio CD: Senzoku Gakuen Wind Orchestra (Alfred Reed, conductor) – 2004
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Anvil Chorus (as transcriber with Graham) (1853/2008)
- Armenian Folk Song and Dance (as arranger) (1932/1988)
- Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (as arranger; ed. Reed) (1910/2005)
- Canovacci (2003)
- Carmen (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1875/2000)
- Characteristic Dances from "The Nutcracker Suite" (as editor with Reed; tr. Rogan) (1892/2001)
- Concerto for Trombone and Military Band (as editor) (1878/1981)
- Finlandia (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1900/2004)
- Hogarthiana
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1853/2002)
- L’Arlésienne Suite No 2 (as editor with Reed) (1872/2002)
- Light Cavalry Overture (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1866/2003)
- Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (as arranger)
- Partita for Two Oboes, Two Clarinets, Two Horns, Trumpet, Two Bassoons and Contrabassoon, op 45, no 2 (as editor) (1803/2001)
- Partita for Two Oboes, Two Clarinets, Two Horns, Two Bassoons and Contrabassoon, op 67 (as editor) (1808/2003)
- Pascha (2006)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (as arranger with Reed) (1850/2006)
- A Quilting Bee (2002)
- "Ricercare a 6" from Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (as transcriber)
- Six Country Dances (as transcriber) (1988)
- Suite persane (as editor) (1900/2000)
- A Summer Flourish (1991/1995)
- Symphonies de Noel
- Tannhäuser Grand March (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1847/2005)
- Three Chorales (as editor; arr. Reed) (?/2013)
- Triumphal March from "Aida" (as arranger)
- Variations on a Theme of Glinka (as editor) (1878/1987)
- Woodscapes (1998/1999)
Resources
- McAlister, C. (2003). Canovacci: Commedia for Winds [score]. Maecenas Music: Kenley, U.K.
- Perusal score