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Fields
General Info
Year: 1994
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: James Syler
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental ($300.00) | Score Only - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II I doubling Piccolo; I doubling Alto Flute)
Oboe I-II (I doubling English Horn)
Bassoon I-II (I doubling Contrabassoon)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-IVI (I doubling E-flat Soprano Clarinet)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV (I doubling Piccolo Trumpet; I doubling Flugelhorn)
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Harp
Timpani
Percussion(offstage) I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Field Drums (2)
Offstage Flugelhorn
Players singing
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In botanical terms, Syler’s work Fields displays plagiotropic development, or the exploration and exploitation of horizontal space. Three distinctive and fully formed branches (“musics” in the composer’s terminology) stem from the same melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material and move past one another to provide the listener with a musical field of images. The three musics are heard in the brass choir, woodwind choir, and piano/harp duo.
Syler writes, “Further spatial sound is achieved through an off-stage flugelhorn and off-stage percussion. A dramatic quiet ending fuses together blocks of woodwind and brass chords. Fields uses asynchronous events and layers of sound to create an Ivesian numinous sound world.”
- Program Note from University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Wind Ensemble concert program, 23 April 2018
This work was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force Band of Flight, Dayton, Ohio.
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Wind Ensemble (Carolyn Barber, conductor) – 23 April 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
- Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
- Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
All Wind Works
- Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- A Blue Streak (2010)
- Cantique (2012)
- Congo Square (2016)
- Country Bandstand (2002)
- Fantasia on Brother James' Air (2023)
- Fantasia on "Silent Night" (2011)
- Fields (1994)
- Galop (as transcriber) (c. 1909/2013)
- Gearbox (2009)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
- The Harmonious Blacksmith (as arranger) (1720/2020)
- Hocus Pocus (2013)
- The Hound of Heaven (1988)
- Hymn for Emmanuel (2015)
- Love Among the Ruins (2016)
- Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- Minton's Playhouse (1994)
- O Magnum Mysterium (1996)
- The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
- Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Seasons (2022)
- Silent Shadows to the Last (2017)
- Sinfonietta (2012)
- Storyville (1996)
- Suite Argentine (2020)
- Suite Louisiane (2018)
- Symphony No. 1, “Blue” (1999)
- Symphony No. 2 (2019)
- Tattoo (2005)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (2014)
- Wu Xing (2016)
Resources
- James Syler Website
- Syler, J. (1994). Fields [score]. J. Ballerbach: Boca Raton, Fla.