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Celtic Air and Dance
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Contents
General Info
Year: 2007
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $45.00; (digital) - $45.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe (optional)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F (optional)
Low Brass & Woodwinds
Percussion I-II
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Drawing on the rich and varied tradition of Celtic folksongs, this piece opens with the touching and melodious The Parting Glass. The flutes and percussion take center stage on the dance-like Tha Mi Sgith (A Fairy's Love Song), then the entire band gets into the act for the rousing finish.
- Program Note by publisher
Celtic Air and Dance features two traditional folk melodies. The slower opening section, The Parting Glass, can be traced to the year 1605, although it is frequently found in popular culture, such as the season three premiere of The Walking Dead. The second section features a faster setting of the traditional lullaby “Tha Mi Sgrth” (A Fairy’s Love Song). This arrangement is the first of several for young band by Michael Sweeney, including Celtic Air and Dance No. 2 and No.3, and Celtic Air and March.
- Program Note from Riverwatch Middle School Symphonic Band concert program, 21 December 2017
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Florida: I
- Georgia: II
- Kansas: II
- Maryland: II
- Mississippi: I-A
- North Carolina: II
- South Carolina: II
- West Virginia: II
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Granby Junior Senior High School Band (Granby, Massachusetts) (Richard Sargent, conductor) - 8 February 2019
- Riverwatch Middle School (Suwanee, Ga.) Symphonic Band (Mary Land, conductor) - 21 December 2017 (2017 Midwest Clinic)
- South Central Border League Middle School Honor Band (Argonia, Kan.) – 2015
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
- Sweeney, M. (2007). Celtic Air and Dance [score]. Musicworks: Milwaukee, Wisc.
