Encomium (Stamp)
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General Info
Year: 2022
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unpublished
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Encomium was written in 2022 in loving memory and tribute to Jeff Jordan, who served as director of bands at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, who died of cancer. Jeff was also a composer, and Jack was asked to compose a piece for him, and Jeff was able to see this piece before he passed away.
Encomium (which means “a speech or writing praising someone highly”) is a primarily atonal piece based on a 12-tone row of these notes: C – Eb – F – A – Db – E – G – B – Bb – Ab – D – Gb. This tone row is stated at the beginning of the piece by the brass sections. For composer creativity, this tone row can then be varied in many different presentations based from this first Prime (Original) row, such as in Inversion, Retrograde, Retrograde Inversion and all of its multiple gradations, which can be 12 different versions. The form of Encomium is a double binary (A-B-A 1 -B 1 ), of which the A sections are atonal, and the slower, lyrical B sections are tonal, giving the piece a more beautiful side occasionally. The ending section (B 1 ) presents a short duet between horn and vibraphone which represents Jeff and Jack performing together on their primary instruments, respectively.
- Program Note from East Tennessee State University Wind Ensemble concert program, 2 March 2023
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- East Tennessee State University (Johnson City) Wind Ensemble (Christian Zembower, conductor) - 2 March 2023
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
All Wind Works
- AirLink (2009)
- Aloft! (1997)
- Antithigram (1977/1988)
- As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
- Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
- Bandancing (2004)
- Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
- The Beltway Jam (2006)
- Border Dance (2021)
- Cage Dance (2020)
- Cenotaph (1992)
- Cheers! (1995)
- Chorale and Toccata (1993)
- Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
- Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
- Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
- Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
- Divertimento in F (1995)
- Down East Fanfare (2003)
- Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
- Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
- Encomium (2022)
- Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
- Escapade (2007)
- Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
- Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
- Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
- Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
- Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
- Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
- The Final Beguine (2018)
- Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
- Forefathers
- Four Maryland Songs (2000)
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
- Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
- I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
- In Final Obedience (1994)
- In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
- In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
- Iridium
- Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
- Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
- Miniature Overture (2010)
- No Brief Candle (2019)
- Panhandle Prelude (2013)
- Parkway Jam Fanfare
- Past the Equinox
- Pastime (1999)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
- Prayer and Jubilation
- Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
- Psalm 150 (2013)
- Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
- Repetend
- Ricercare (2001)
- Rondeau
- Rondo alla BCP (2023)
- San Luis Snapshots (2016)
- Scenes from Terezin (2009)
- Skyline
- A Song of Hope (2013)
- Southpaw (2014)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
- Stranger at My Door (2021)
- Symphony No. 1 (2006)
- Three Places in England
- Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
- Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
- Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
- With Trump and Wing
Resources
- Jack Stamp website Accessed 4 March 2023