Daydream

Timothy Mahr

General Info

Year: 1989
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A Kjos Music
Cost: Score & Parts - $45.00 | Score Only - $7.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet/B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
Bassoon
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
French Horn I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Glockenspiel
Gong (or Tam-tam)
Mark Tree
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle

Errata

In Parts:

Trombone II, m.52: Part should be adjusted to match score (portamento)
Piano, m.1: Missing bottom Db

In Score:

Piano, m.14: Eb missing in piano part
Piano, m.32: F# missing in piano part

In Score and Part:

B-flat Bass Clarinet, m.18: Add cresc. and decresc., like other bass instruments
Horn in F II, m.30: Should be written F#
B-flat Trumpet III, m.30: Tie low Bs

Program Notes

Daydream was written on a request from Miles "Mity" Johnson to be used as a quiet tune with the Festival Band at the 1989 St. Olaf College Festival of Bands. It is intended to be a musical daydream, with introspective sounds eliciting mood changes and shifting images. I hope to conjure up in the listener the sense one perceives when he or she "pulls out" of a daydream, returning to reality after a transient mental trip to places of flight and fancy. I conducted its premiere on November 11, 1989.

- Program Note by composer

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
Audio CD: University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony (Andrew Boysen, Jr., conductor).

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Appalachian State University (Boone, N.C.) Symphony Band (Jason Gardner, conductor) - 25 April 2022
University of Iowa (Iowa City) University Band (Joshua W. Neuenschwander, conductor) – 3 December 2018
Hartwick College (Oneonta, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Christian Wilhjelm, conductor) – 20 October 2018
University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Jack R. Snider Concert Band (Douglas W. Bush, conductor) – 27 April 2017
Stephen F. Austin University (Nacogdoches, Tex.) Symphonic Band (Tamey Anglley, conductor) – 7 February 2017
Clovis (Calif.) West High School Wind Symphony (John Lack, conductor) - 12 March 2016 (2016 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adoramus Te, Christe (as arranger)
and in this dream there were eight windows... (2003)
Appalachian Folk Dream (2016)
Argentum (1986)
Blue Sky Day (2006)
Bridge Square March (2005)
Bright Side (2015/2018)
Carolina Folk Dream
Climb the Castle Walls! (2011)
Dauntless (2015)
Daydream (1989)
Diamond Celebration (2009)
Dig Down Deep (2013)
Endurance (1991)
Etched in Stone (2018)
Everyday Hero (2011)
Fanfare and Grand March (1980)
Fantasia in G (1982)
Festivals
Fields of Grain as Seen From a Train (2008)
Flourish (2000)
GF Redux: "It's Yours", from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
Heroic Rhapsody (2009)
Heroic Valor (2009)
Hey! (2001/2005)
Honoris Causa (2009)
Hymn and Celebration (1994)
Imagine, If You Will... (2013)
Imagining Peace (2018)
Immigrant Dreams (1992)
Imprints
Inaugural Dances (2006)
Into the Air! (1998)
Look In/Look Out (2018)
A Mighty March (2003)
Mountain Prayers (2006)
Mourning Dances (2001)
Mr. Kallman (2019)
Noble Element (2007)
Passages (1984)
Pride, Promise and Progress (2009)
A Quiet Place To Think (1999)
Retreat, from All Hail the Power (2002)
The Soaring Hawk (1991)
Sol Solator (2009)
Spirits Ablaze (2013)
Spring Divertimento (1992)
Suite for Band (2014)
Symphony No. 1 (2016)
Uncle Lumpy's Garage (2005)
Urgent Voices (2020)
The View from the Mountaintop (1996)
When I Close My Eyes, I See Dancers (1997)

Resources

"Daydream by Timothy Mahr." Wind Band Literature. Web. Accessed 22 August 2018
Timothy Mahr website.