Chesapeake Bay Adventure, A
General Info
Year: 2008
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $78.00; (digital) - $72.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/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-III
Euphonium
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by the 2007 Albemarle County High School Honors Band (Crozet, Va.), this piece takes its inspiration from the rich maritime history of the Chesapeake Bay - from colonial lighthouses to Civil War ironclads; from its vital role in the underground railroad to Blackbeard and other real-life pirates. Adventure is paramount as swashbuckling themes are developed in the opening and closing sections of this work and beautifully contrasted with the haunting lyrical section reminiscent of Oh Shenandoah.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
- North Carolina: IV
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Allan Hancock College (Santa Maria, Calif.) Community Concert Band (Greg Stoll, conductor) – 12 March 2016
- Coopersville (Mich.) Community Concert Band (Luanne DeVries, conductor) 22 October 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Where Stand the Dauntless (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- After Images (2019)
- Amplitude (2015)
- Avinu Malkeinu (as arranger) (2013)
- Bang Zoom! (2014)
- Big Raven (2009)
- Brain Dance (2019)
- Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (as arranger) (2015)
- A Cambridge Carol (as arranger) (2007)
- A Canadian Christmas (2012)
- Canadian Folk Trilogy (as arranger) (2009)
- Cape Breton Lullaby (as arranger) (2011)
- Chariton Chronicles (2019/2020)
- Chase the Shouting Wind (2014)
- A Chesapeake Bay Adventure (2008)
- Chimera (2011)
- A Christmas Canticle (as arranger) (2014)
- Climb the Mountains Tall (2012)
- Code of Honor (2010)
- Covenant (2021)
- Crusade (2006)
- Djembe Laya (2016)
- Engage (2018)
- Event Horizon (2018)
- Flight of The Intrepid (2007)
- G Force (2015)
- Genesis (2010)
- The Holly and the Ivy (2012)
- I Saw Three Ships (as arranger) (2012)
- Impulse Power! (2018)
- Invocation and Psalm (2011)
- Journey to Aldebaran (2008)
- Kaboom! (2017)
- Land of the Midnight Sun (2008)
- Land of the Silver Birch (as arranger) (2011)
- Legends of the Yucatan (2009)
- The Moon of Winter (as arranger) (2010)
- Mysterion (2013)
- O Canada (as arranger) (2009)
- O Christmas Three (as arranger) (2019)
- Oak Island Odyssey (2013)
- Oracle (2020)
- Phenom (2010)
- Retrograde (2021)
- Rise of the Avatar (2017)
- Rite of Ascension (2009)
- Rock Paper Scissors (2013)
- Rouge Valley Celebration (2011)
- Sails (2014)
- Ships With Sails Unfurled (2007)
- Stay Cool (2010)
- The Temple of Guan Yu (2015)
- To Cross the Sleeping Green (2019)
- Tsunami (2005/2006)
- Variations on an English Folk Song (as arranger) (2010)
- Vectors (2015)
- Vision Quest (2012)
- The Water is Wide (as arranger) (2014)
- We Stand on Guard (2015)
- Where Stand the Dauntless (2020)
- Where Stand the Dauntless (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Wings (2012)
- Wings of Apollo (2016)
- Zero to Ninety! (2019)
Resources
- Vince Gassi website Accessed 28 March 2016