Downbeat

Don Gillis

Don Gillis

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Subtitle: A Fable of Fiction and Fact for Fun

General Info

Year: 1958
Duration: c. 15:55
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Fema Music Pub.
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Downbeat is a tongue-in-cheek tale recounting how conductors came to use a baton when conducting.

- Program Note from Heart of Texas Concert Band concert program, 29 January 2023

Media

None discovered thus far.

State Ratings

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Performances

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• Heart of Texas (San Antonio) Concert Band (R. Mark Rogers, conductor; Don Carnes, narrator) - 29 January 2023

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger; adapt. Brown) (1990/)

All Wind Works

• Bach Chorales for Brass Choir (as arranger)
• Ballet for Band (1965)
• Ceremony of Allegiance (1965)
• The Coming of the Kings
• Downbeat (1958)
• Hymn Song for Sunday (1963)
• The January February March (1950)
• Just a Closer Walk (as arranger; adapt. Barnes) (1988)
• Just a Closer Walk with Thee (as arranger)
• Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger; adapt. Brown) (1990/)
• The Man Who Invented Music
• Rompin' Stomp, The
• Saga of a Pioneer (1966)
  • The Land Beyond
  • The Pioneers
  • Song of Memory
  • Centennial Celebration
• Short Overture to an Unwritten Opera (1944)
• Spiritual?. See: Spiritual?
• Symphony No 5 1-2 (1947)
  • Spiritual? (arr. Bainum) (1947/1954)
• Tulsa (1957)
• Variations on a Kitchen Sink (1958/1970/2017)

Resources

• Gillis, D. (1958). Downbeat, from Band Concert. A Fable of Fiction And Fact for Fun [score]. Fema Music: Naperville, Ill.