El Vaquero!

William Owens

Subtitle: The Cowboy

General Info

Year: 2017
Duration: c. 1:00
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00; (digital) - $50.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00

Instrumentation (Flexible)

Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

Bass Drum
Bells
Claves
Crash Cymbals
Guiro
Maracas
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This daring Spanish-flavored work for young bands offers a thrilling horseback ride across the open range, all using only six notes.

- Program Note from publisher

Before the modern cowboy there was the vaquero. Originating in the early 1500s, with Spanish settlement of Mexico, the ancient Iberian tradition of the vaquero (a herder of cattle) came to the New World. Today the spirit of the Spanish “buckaroo” survives in the Great Basin of the American West.

El Vaquero! is one of more than 150 commissioned and published works for concert band, string orchestra and small ensemble by composer William Owens. Take an exciting ride across the open ranges of Mexico with this bold Latin-flavored work. Strategically orchestrated using only six notes, El Vaquero! employs flex instrumentation.

- Program Note from The Virginia Wind Symphony concert program, 21 December 2017

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Virginia Wind Symphony (Norfolk) (Dennis J. Zeisler, conductor) - 21 December 2017 (2017 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)

All Wind Works

Across the Great Plains (2017)
After the Darkness (2021)
Albany Fanfare (2011)
All Things So Wondrous
Antiphon (2011)
Battle Command
Big Bend (2023)
The Blue Orchid (2005)
Blue Sky (2002)
But Joy Comes... (2010)
Captain Dane (2003)
Carnegie Anthem (2012)
Carpathia (2007)
Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
Caverns of Sonora (2019)
Chisholm
Congolese (2017)
Corps of Discovery (2010)
Country Day Dances (2004)
Courtlandt County Festival (2004)
Credo (2012)
Curtain Up!
Dances Americanesque (2008)
Declaration and Dance (2010)
Destined to Fly (2018)
Egyptique (2010)
The Eighth Day (2022)
El Pato Loco (2010)
El Vaquero! (2017)
Every Day New (2018)
Excelsior! (2008)
Exhaltations! (2006)
Fandango Caliente (2017)
Fantasia on "Adeste Fidelis" (as arranger) (2007)
Festive Proclamation (2015)
Flourishes! (2019)
Flourishes! (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
Great Wall (2016)
Hark! (A Holiday Celebration) (As arranger)
Heavenwards (2015)
Heroes Triumphant (2012)
Hopak! (2014)
In Autumn (2009)
In Joyful Celebration (2003)
Ironclads (The Monitor and the Merrimack) (2012)
Journey of the Bonfire (2017)
Jupiter (as arranger) (1916/2006)
Kamehameha (2006)
Kitty Hawk, 1903 (2010)
Krakatoa (2008)
Maesong (2004)
Mars (as arranger) (1916/2009)
The Mighty 97th (2008)
New Horizons March (2016)
Of Gentle Spirit
Paintings (2011)
Paradise Awaiting... (2017)
Quicksilver (2018)
Resplendence (2017)
Silversides (2021)
The Southern Dawn (1998/2002)
Spit-Fire (2013)
Summit Fanfare (2008)
The Tahoka Galop (2004)
Tangelridge (2009)
Tambora! (2013)
Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
Terracotta (2009)
Three Scottish Vistas (2007)
To Her Majesty's Delight (2020)
Tudor Sketches (2013)
Tundra (2018)
Wedgwood March (2002)
The Wings of Mercury
With Valor and Brave Heart (2011)
The World's Greatest Show! (2022)
Yonaguska (2016)
Zia (2014)

Resources

Perusal score
William Owens website Accessed 29 August 2021