El Camino Real

Alfred Reed

Subtitle: A Latin Fantasy

General Info

Year: 1985
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Edward B. Marks Music Company, through Hal Leonard Corporation
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $120.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II-III (III doubling C Piccolo)
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon (optional)
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
B-flat Cornet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp/Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

Bass Drum
Bells
Castanets
Crash Cymbals
Marimba
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Tambourine
Triangle
Wood Block
Vibraphone (with motor)
Xylophone (3.5 octaves)

Errata

In parts:

Piccolo, m.207: add "Piccolo" above entrance
Flute I, m.59: Add rehearsal number [59]
B-flat Soprano Clarinet III, m.164: Add "meno f"
E-flat Alto Saxophone I, m.88, beat 1: 1st note should be C, not C-sharp
E-flat Alto Saxophone I, m.198: Add 3/4 time signature
E-flat Alto Saxophone I, m.240, beat 2: Add an eighth rest
E-flat Alto Saxophone II, m.57, beat 2: Add an eighth rest
B-flat Tenor Saxophone, m.145, beat 1: Add "mf"
B-flat Tenor Saxophone, m.145, beat 4: add hairpin diminuendo
B-flat Tenor Saxophone, m.146, beat 1: Add "p"
B-flat Cornet II, m.2: F-flat should be F-sharp. A difficult issue. Trusted the condensed score.
B-flat Cornet II, m.165: Add CUP MT (cup mute)
Horn in F I, m.135: Move rehearsal number [135] before Slowly and languorously
Horn in F I, m.194: 6th note should be eighth note, not quarter note
Trombone II, m.65: 1st note should be E, not C
String Bass, m.129: Add rehearsal number [129] before Molto lent (freely)
String Bass, m.164: Should be C, not A
String Bass, m.191: Remove tie to m.192
Percussion IV, Vib, m.135: (3 + 2 + 3) should be (3 + 2 + 2)

In score:

B-flat Tenor Saxophone, m.145, beat 1: Add "mf"
B-flat Tenor Saxophone, m.145, beat 4: add hairpin diminuendo
B-flat Tenor Saxophone, m.146, beat 1: Add "p"
Basses, m.192: delete "pizz"

Program Notes

El Camino Real (literally "The Royal Road" or "The King's Highway") was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, the 581st Air Force Band (AFRES) and its commander, Lt. Col. Ray E. Toler. Composed during the latter half of 1984 and completed in early '85, it bears the subtitle "A Latin Fantasy."

The music is based on a series of chord progressions common to countless generations of Spanish flamenco (and other) guitarists, whose fiery style and brilliant playing have captivated millions of music lovers throughout the world. These progressions and the resulting key relationships have become practically synonymous with what we feel to be the true Spanish idiom. Together with the folk melodies they have underscored, in part derived by a procedure known to musicians as the "melodizing of harmony," they have created a vast body of what most people would consider authentic Spanish music.

The first section of the music is based upon the dance form known as the Jota, while the second, contrasting section is derived from the Fandango, but here altered considerably in both time and tempo from its usual form. Overall, the music follows a tradition three-part pattern: fast-slow-fast.

The first public performance of El Camino Real took place on April 15th, 1985, in Sarasota, Florida, with the 581st Air Force Band under the direction of Lt. Col. Ray E. Toler.

- Program Note by composer

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Senzoku Gakuen Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Alfred Reed, conductor)
Audio CD: Permian High School Symphonic Band (Richard E. Strange, conductor) - 2006
Audio CD: Senzoku Gakuen Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Alfred Reed, conductor) – 2000

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Johns Creek (Ga.) High School Wind Ensemble (Bryan Daniels, conductor) - 10 March 2023
University of Georgia (Athens) Hodgson Symphonic Band (Michael Robinson, conductor) - 27 February 2023
West Virginia University (Morgantown) Wind Symphony (Scott C. Tobias, conductor) - 10 February 2023
University of Delaware (Newark) Symphonic Band (James P. Ancona, conductor) – 1 December 2022
Los Angeles Symphonic Winds (Woodland Hills, Calif.) (Stephen Piazza, conductor) – 7 May 2022 (ACB 2022 Annual Convention (Santa Fe, New Mexico))
Jackson (Miss.) State University Wind Ensemble (Lowell Hollinger, conductor) - 3 November 2021
Tyler (Tx.) Junior College Wind Ensemble (Eddie W. Airheart, conductor) - 5 November 2021
Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) Wind Symphony (Bobby Francis, conductor) – 13 October 2020
Lakeland (Ohio) Civic Band (Dan Crain, conductor) – 15 March 2020
University of Georgia (Athens) Hodgson Symphonic Band (Michael Robinson, conductor) – 10 February 2020
University of North Texas (Denton) Concert Band (Luslaida Barbosa, conductor) – 6 November 2019
Encore Concert Band (Mokena, Ill.) (Bill Schuetter, conductor) – 20 October 2019
Ithaca (N.Y.) College Concert Band (Benjamin Rochford, conductor) – 14 October 2019
Santa Fe Wind Ensemble (Gainesville, Fla.) (Steve Bingham, conductor) – 3 October 2019
Beijing (China) Wind Orchestra (Li Fangfang, conductor) – 18 July 2019
Whitehouse Wind Symphony (Somerville, N.J.) (James P. Sheeley, Jr., conductor) – 11 May 2019
United States Coast Guard Academy Band (New London, Conn.) (Kenneth L. Megan, conductor) – 5 May 2019
Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (James Osborn, conductor) – 28 April 2019
Windham (NH) Concert Band (Spencer Aston, conductor) – 6 April 2019
Syracuse (N.Y.) University Wind Ensemble (Timothy Diem, conductor) – 19 February 2019
Texas Community College Band Directors Association (TCCBDA) Symphonic Band (Phillip Clements, conductor) – 16 February 2019 (2019 TMEA Conference, San Antonio)
CJMEA (New Jersey) Region II Wind Ensemble (T. André Feagin, conductor) – 13 January 2019
Brooklyn (N.Y.) Wind Symphony (Jeff W. Ball, conductor) - 12 December 2009

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Come, Sweet Death (Flex instrumentation) (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
A Festival Prelude (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Haga) (1962/2019)
Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1983/1997/2010)

All Wind Works

Acclamation!
Alleluia! Laudamus Te (1973)
Arioso (as arranger) (1729/1998)
Armenian Dances (1972-1978)
- Armenian Dances, Part One (1972/1974)
- Armenian Dances, Part Two (1978)
Around the World in 80 Days: Selections (as arranger; ed. Rogers) (1957/2017)
Autumn Leaves (as arranger; ed. Rogers) (1947/2017)
Ballade (1956/1999)
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Suite (as arranger) (1965)
Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (as editor; arr. McAlister) (1910/2005)
The Big East March (1997)
Canto e Camdombe
Carmen (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1875/2000)
A Celebration Fanfare (1989)
A Ceremonial Fanfare (1971)
Ceremony of Flourishes (1964)
Chanson Triste (as arranger) (1878/1989)
Characteristic Dances from "The Nutcracker Suite" (as editor with McAlister; tr. Rogan) (1892/2001)
Children's Suite (2000)
A Christmas Suite (1974)
Chorale Prelude in E minor (1953/1966)
A Christmas Celebration (1987)
A Christmas Intrada (1980)
Clear Track Polka (as arranger) (1869/2000)
Come, Sweet Death (as arranger) (1736/1976)
Come, Sweet Death (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
Concertino (as arranger; ed. McCathren) (1811/1962)
Concertino for Marimba and Winds (1993)
Concerto for Trumpet and Winds (1995/1997)
- Sonata
- Slow Blues, Jazz Waltz
- Song, Samba
Curtain Up! (1991)
Dance of the Hours (as editor; tr. Kennedy) (1876/)
Danza Caribe (1986)
Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness (as arranger) (1653/1724/1990)
Divertimento for Flute and Band (1998)
Double Wind Quintet (1975)
East and West (2003)
El Camino Real (1985)
El Camino Real (arr. Longfield) (1985/2013)
The Enchanted Island (1980)
The Entertainer (as arranger) (1902/1974)
Evolutions (1993)
Exhortation and Praise (2003)
Fanfare and Processional (2005)
The Fantasticks (as arranger) (1966)
Fantasy on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (as arranger) (1973)
A Festival Prelude (1962)
A Festival Prelude (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Haga) (1962/2019)
A Festive Overture (1963)
Fifth Suite for Band (1995)
Fifth Symphony (1995)
Finlandia (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1900/2004)
First Suite for Band (1975)
Five Cameos (2002)
Five Dances for Five Clarinets and Band
Forget Me Not, O Dearest Lord (as arranger) (c. 1736/1985)
Fourth Suite for Band (1994)
Fourth Symphony (1992)
French Suite
Funiculi Funicula (as arranger) (1880/1994)
The Garden of Proserpine
Giligia (2000)
Golden Eagle (1989/1995)
Golden Jubilee (1987)
The Golden Year (1997)
Greensleeves (1993/2011)
Gypsy Dance (as arranger) (1872/1997)
Havana Moon
Highlights from "Exodus" (as arranger) (1960/1962)
Highlights from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as arranger) (1963/1965)
The Hounds of Spring (1981)
Huldigungsmarsch (as editor) (1864/2002)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1853/2002)
Hymn Variants (1992)
I Left my Heart in San Francisco (as transcriber; ed. Rogers) (1954/1963)
Imperatrix (1972)
In Dulci Jubilo (as arranger) (1970)
In Memoriam (1972)
Intrada Drammatica (1968/1992)
Jazz Waltz. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (1723/1981)
Jidai (2001)
Joyeux Noël (Brass Ensemble) (1998)
Joyeux Noël (Wind Ensemble) (1998/2001/2002)
A Jubilant Overture (1970)
A Jubilant Overture (arr. Conaway) (1970/2011)
The King of Love My Shepherd Is (1995)
L’Arlésienne Suite No 2 (as editor, with McAlister) (1872/2002)
Laid-Back Rag
Light Cavalry Overture (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1866/2003)
A Little Concert Suite (1984)
Lumberjack Overture
Macarena (as arranger) (1992)
Mancini! (as arranger) (1965)
March Grandioso (as arranger) (1901/1969)
Mary Poppins (as arranger) (1964/2006)
Might and Majesty
Millennium III (1999)
Mr. Music (1990)
The Music-Makers (1968)
Music for Hamlet (1973/2018)
Music in the Air! (2000)
The Music Man: Highlights (as arranger) (1957/1959)
My Fair Lady (as arranger) (1956/?)
My Heart Is Filled With Longing (as arranger) (c. 1710/1986)
Nimrod (as arranger) (1899/1965)
Nocturne (as arranger) (1886/1953/1975)
A Nordic Trilogy (with Erickson and Davis) (1967)
A Northern Legend (1972)
O Little Town (as arranger)
O Most Wonderful (as arranger)
Ode for Trumpet (1956)
Old and New (2002)
Othello (1977)
Our Father Who Art in Heaven (as arranger) (1710/1988)
Passacaglia (1967)
Pavane for a Dead Princess (as orchestrator; ed. McAlister) (1899/1988)
Piccolo Concerto in C major (as arranger) (1728-29/1962/1969)
Pilgrim's Chorus (as arranger) (1845/1991)
The Pledge of Allegiance (1970)
Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 2 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 3 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 4 (as editor; tr. Retford) (1907/2000)
Praise Jerusalem! (1986)
Prelude IV (as arranger) (1722/1983)
Prelude and Capriccio (1978)
Prelude, Op. 9, No. 1 (as arranger) (1894/1985)
Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (as arranger, with McAlister) (1850/2006)
Presentation of the Silver Rose (as arranger) (1910/1988)
Pro Texana (1984)
Punchinello (1974)
Radetzky March (as arranger) (1848/1993)
Rahoon (1965)
The Ramparts of Courage (1995)
Rosalind in the Forest of Arden (2005)
Rushmore (1981)
Russian Christmas Music (1944)
Russian Christmas Music (arr. Curnow) (1944/1990)
A Sacred Suite
Salutations! (1995)
Samba. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
Seascape: A Dramatic Intermezzo (1962)
Second Century (1986)
Second Suite for Band (1980)
Second Symphony (1979)
Selections from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as editor; arr. Kostal) (1963/1964)
Serenade (1966)
Seventh Suite for Band (2002)
The Severn Suite (as arranger) (1973)
Siciliana Notturno (1977)
Silver Shadow (1998/1999)
Sine Nomine (as arranger) (1906/1976)
Sixth Suite for Band
Slavonic Folk Suite (1953/1987)
Slow Blues. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
Sonata. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
Song. See: Concerto for Trumpet and Winds
Song of the High Cascades
Song of Threnos (1964)
A Springtime Celebration (1991)
The Strenuous Life (as arranger) (1902/1974)
Sumus Futuro (1999)
A Symphonic Prelude (1963)
Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1952/1967)
Symphony No. 1. See: Symphony for Brass and Percussion
Symphony No. 2. See: Second Symphony
Symphony No. 3 (1988)
- Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner (1882/1988)
Symphony No. 4. See: Fourth Symphony
Symphony No. 5. See: Fifth Symphony
Tannhäuser Grand March (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1847/2005)
Tarantella (1996)
Testament of an American (1974)
Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" (as arranger) (1963)
Third Suite for Band (1982)
Third Symphony. See: Symphony No. 3
Three Chorales (as arranger; ed. McAlister) (?/2013)
Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra (1984)
Three Symphonic Preludes (as arranger)
Thunder and Lightning (1999)
The Tsar's Farewell (as arranger) (2001)
Twelfth Night (2003)
Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1983/1997/2010)
Two Bagatelles (1983/1995)
Two Bagatelles for Concert Band (1983/1997)
Two Bagatelles for Four Trombones (1983)
Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner. See: Symphony No. 3
Victory! (2005)
Vilia (as arranger) (1905/1990)
Vilabella March (as editor) (1970)
Viva Musica! (1984)
Wapawekka (1963)
With Trumpets And Drums (1992)

Resources

Dabelstein, Craig. "El Camino Real, A Latin Fantasy." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 7, compiled and edited by Richard Miles. GIA Publications, 2003, pp. 492-500.
Reed, A. (1985). El Camino Real: A Latin Fantasy [score]. Piedmont Music: U.S.