Epiphanies
Subtitle: Fanfare and Chorales
General Info
Year: 1994
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: LudwigMasters Publications, through Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $95.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III (div., min. 7 players)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV-V-VI
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Synthesizer
Timpani
Percussion I-VII, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Bongos
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (or Tam-tam)
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal (small and large)
- Tenor Drum
- Timbales
- Tom-Toms
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Epiphanies (Fanfares and Chorales) for band was commissioned by James Keene, director of bands at the University of Illinois, for performance at an MENC Convention on April 8, 1994.
Epiphanies is a festive piece of extreme dynamic range. It is a series of fanfare-like proclamations announced by brass, woodwinds and percussion which move from dissonance to consonance. It is intended to celebrate a secular, rather than religious, occasion.
The main theme, ten notes in length, is cast in an octatonic scale. Motives from this theme tie each proclamation and contrasting chorale-like statement together. The theme is transformed into diatonic form in the final chorale-like proclamation.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Carmel High School Wind Symphony I (Richard Saucedo, conductor) - 2005
- Audio CD: Dallas Wind Symphony (Jerry Junkin, conductor) – 1996
State Ratings
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
- Louisiana: V
- Michigan: Senior High AA
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Iowa (Iowa City) Symphony Band (Myron Peterson, guest conductor) - 14 April 2022
- Stetson University (DeLand, Fla.) Symphonic Band (Douglas L. Phillips, conductor) - 22 October 2021
- Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Tx.) Meadows Wind Ensemble (Jared Beu, conductor) - 8 October 2021
- Arkansas State University (Jonesboro) Wind Ensemble (Tim Oliver, conductor) – 20 February 2020 (CBDNA 2020 Southwestern Division Conference, Norman, Okla.)
- Arkansas State University (Jonesboro) Wind Ensemble (Timothy Oliver, conductor) – 21 November 2019
- Wind Ensemble for the Coral Reef High School (Miami, Fla.) - 3 December 2010
- Carmel (Ind.) High School Wind Symphony I (Richard Saucedo, conductor) – 14 December 2005 (2005 Midwest Clinic)
- UPEI (Charlottetown, PEI) Wind Symphony (Karem J. Simon, conductor) - 15 November 2002
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Aspen Jubilee (1988)
- Brevard Fanfare (1986)
- Chaconne (In Memoriam...) (1994/1995)
- Concerto for Piano & Symphonic Band (1948)
- Courtly Airs and Dances (1995)
- Danza Capriccio (1991/2013)
- Epiphanies (1994)
- Fanfare for a Celebration (1982/1986)
- Fanfare for Kennedy Center (1995/2008)
- Fanfare for the Hour of Sunrise (1991)
- Fanfare for the New Millennium (1999)
- Lauds (Praise High Day) (1991)
- Mayflower Overture (1958/1997)
- Medieval Suite (1982-2019)
- Homage to Leonin (1983)
- Homage to Perotin (1982)
- Homage to Landini (2019)
- Homage to Machaut (1983)
- Morning Alleluias for the Winter Solstice (1989/1991)
- Night Song (1998)
- Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) (1993)
- Pastorale (2006)
- Pebble Beach Sojourn (1983/1994)
- Resonances I (1990)
- Rocky Point Holiday (1969)
- Savannah River Holiday (1953/1973)
- Sonoran Desert Holiday (1995)
- Te Deum Laudamus (1988/1990)
- To the Airborne (1992/1993)
Resources
- Nelson, R. (1994). Epiphanies: (Fanfares and Chorales): For Symphonic Band [score]. Ludwig Music: Cleveland, Ohio.
- Ron Nelson website