Dynamo
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: II 1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $58.00; (digital) - $58.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (7 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Hi-Hat
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Temple Blocks
- Tenor Drum
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This commissioned work was written in celebration of the career of an administrator who was a staunch supporter of music, an individual known for being highly energetic and always on the move throughout the school. The piece conveys these characteristics throughout with cheerful and rhythmically intense full-ensemble passages, busy melodic motives that bounce around the ensemble, rhythmic variety, numerous and somewhat unpredictable contrasts of dynamics and texture, and a brisk tempo.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the Kingsley Junior High School PTO and Music Department, Normal, Ill., Kathy Vermillion, Chris Golick, and Becky Meadows, Directors, in honor of Dr. Lynette Mehll and her service to the Unit 5 School District.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- South Portland (Maine) High School Band – 8 December 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Escape Route (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- As the Robin to the Meadow (2006)
- The Capital March (as arranger) (1920/2014)
- Castles and Dragons (2005)
- Christmas Fanfares (2004)
- Clouds That Sail in Heaven (2007)
- Counterbalance (2013)
- Critical Mass (2010)
- Cut to the Chase (2012)
- The Dragon's Lair (2008)
- Dynamo (2015)
- Écossaise for Military Band (as arranger)
- Escape Route (2020)
- Escape Route (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Fighting Falcon March (2006)
- Gather Ye Rosebuds (2019)
- Glen Crossing (2010)
- Ignition (2011)
- In tantum lux (2016)
- Knox Bridge Jubilee (2018)
- Lightning! (2004)
- Loco Motion (2015)
- Longthorpe Tower (2019)
- March, Opus 108 (as arranger) (1841/2011)
- Mechanism (2014)
- My Soul a Canvas (2019)
- Noel! (2010)
- Poème (2007)
- Quasars (2009)
- Rampage! (2009)
- Rephrygeration (2016)
- Scramble (2012)
- Shadows Unseen (2017)
- Shady Grove (2011)
- Sketches on a Kentucky Hymn Tune (2005)
- Three Welsh Songs (2013)
- Then I Saw the Lucent Sky (2008)
- Trumpets of Symphony Hall (2012)
- Two Renaissance Sketches (2009)
- Vier Deutsche Weihnachtslieder (as arranger)
- Whirlybird (2013)
- Wildflowers (2018)
- With Uncommon Valor (2017)
Resources
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist 70.5 (2016): 49. Print
- Perusal score