Fifth Suite for Band

Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed

Subtitle: International Dances

General Info

Year: 1995
Duration: c. 13:05
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Edward B. Marks Music Company, through Hal Leonard Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $115.00   |   Score Only (print) - $10.00

Movements

1. Hoe Down (American) – 3:15
2. Sarabande (French) – 3:50
3. Yamabushi Kagura (Japanese) – 3:15
4. Hora (Romanian/Israeli) – 2:45

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 (div. a2)
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

• Bass Drum
• Chimes
• Crash Cymbals
• Glockenspiel
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Tambourine
• Triangle
• Tom-tom (deep)
• Vibraphone
• Wood Block
• Xylophone

Errata

In Parts:

• Baritone Saxophone, Movement 4/m. 3: Add a "ff" dynamic marking
• Percussion 1, Snare Drum and Bass Drum, Movement 4/m. 45-47: The crescendo should end before m. 47 (identical to m. 53-55)
• Percussion 2, Crash Cymbals, Movement 3/m. 78: Remove the accent on beat 1 of the measure (2nd note of tie)

In Score:

• Percussion 2, Suspended Cymbal, Movement 1/m. 57: Add a "sfz" dynamic marking to the eighth note on beat 1
• Percussion 2, Wood Block, Movement 1/m. 67: Add a "mp" dynamic marking on the & of beat 1
• Mallet Percussion, Vibraphone, Movement 4/m. 53: Add a staccato on the D on beat 1 (along with sffz marking)

In Score and Parts:

• Bassoon I-II, Movement 4/m. 28: Add a staccato to the A on the & of beat 1
• Tenor Saxophone, Movement 1/m. 55: Add an accent to the half note A
• Tenor Saxophone, Movement 1/m. 87: Add an accent to the half note A
• Baritone Saxophone, Movement 1/m. 55: Add an accent to the half note A
• Baritone Saxophone, Movement 1/m. 87: Add an accent to the half note A
• Baritone Saxophone, Movement 4/m. 28: Add a staccato to the F-sharp on the & of beat 1
• Trumpet III, Movement 4/m. 3: Add an accent to the quarter note E on beat 1
• Cornets I-II, Movement 4/m. 3: Add an accent to the quarter note E on beat 1
• Percussion II, Suspended Cymbal, Movement 1/m. 57: Add a staccato to the eighth note on beat 1 (along with sfz marking)
• Percussion II, Wood Block, Movement 1/m. 64: Add hairpin crescendo starting on the & of beat 1 and stop before m. 65
• Percussion II, Wood Block, Movement 1/m. 65: The "f" dynamic on beat 1 should be a "sfz"
• Mallet Percussion, Bells, Movement 4/m. 81: Add an accent to the octave D's
• Mallet Percussion, Xylophone, Movement 4/m. 86: The "f" dynamic marking should be a "mf"

Program Notes

Fifth Suite for Band (International Dances) was commissioned by, and dedicated to, the Shimonoseki Wind Ensemble, Japan; Mr. Masafumi Izumi, President. The work was first performed by this organization on October 10th, 1995, under the composer's direction.

The four movements comprising the Fifth Suite for Band were each conceived in terms of national dances associated with one or more countries. The first movement is an American "Hoe Down", the second a French "Sarabande", the third a Japanese "Yamabushi Kagura", and the fourth a Romanian/Israeli "Hora". Together, this group represents a kind of cross section of international dances from all over the world, in tribute to the cross cultural currents sweeping across the face of the globe today, as the world becomes an ever-smaller habitat, and peoples of all societies come to know and interact with one another as never before. And in this vast sea of communication, what better tribute than the two most ancient of all such forms: music and the dance?

- Program Note by Alfred Reed

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band (Yoshihiro Kimura, conductor) – 1996

Media Links

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown (Movement 1)
• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown (Movement 2)
• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown (Movement 3)
• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown (Movement 4)

State Ratings

• New York: VI (Mvts. II, IV and one other)

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisc.) Wind Ensemble (Erik N. Janners, conductor) – 23 February 2020
• San Dieguito Academy (Encinitas, Calif.) Wind Ensemble I (Jeremy Wuertz, conductor) – 23 March 2019
• Golden Gate Park Band (San Francisco, Calif.) (Robert Calonico, conductor) – 13 May 2018
• San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Wind Orchestra (William V. Johnson, conductor) – 13 April 2008

Works for Winds by this Composer

Adaptable Music

• Come, Sweet Death (Flex instrumentation) (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
• 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)
  • Armenian Dances, Part Two (1978)
• Autumn Leaves (as arranger) (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)
• Canto e Camdombe
• Carmen (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1875/2000)
• A Celebration Fanfare (1989)
• Ceremony of Flourishes (1964)
• Chanson Triste (1989)
• Characteristic Dances from "The Nutcracker Suite" (as editor with McAlister; tr. Rogan) (1892/2001)
• A Christmas Suite (1974)
• Chorale Prelude in E minor (1953/1966)
• A Christmas Celebration (1987)
• A Christmas Intrada (1980)
• Clear Track Polka (2000)
• Come, Sweet Death (as arranger) (1736/1976)
• Come, Sweet Death (as transcriber; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
• Concertino for Marimba and Winds (1993)
• Concerto for Trumpet and Winds (1995/1997)
  • Sonata
  • Slow Blues and Jazz Waltz
  • Song and 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 Concert Band (1998)
• Double Wind Quintet (1975)
• El Camino Real (1985)
• El Camino Real (arr. Longfield) (1985/2013)
• The Enchanted Island (1980)
• The Entertainer (as arranger) (1902/1974)
• Evolutions (1993)
• 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 Festive Overture (1963)
• Fifth Suite for Band (1995)
• Fifth Symphony (1995)
• Finlandia (as editor) (1900/2004)
• First Suite for Band (1975)
• Five Dances for Five Clarinets and Band
• Forget Me Not, O Lord (as arranger) (c. 1736/1985)
• Fourth Suite for Band (1994)
• Fourth Symphony (1992)
• Funiculi Funicula (as arranger) (1880/1994)
• Giligia (2000)
• Golden Eagle March. See: March Golden Eagle
• The Golden Year (1997)
• Greensleeves (1993/2011)
• Gypsy Dance (as arranger) (1872/1997)
• Huldigungsmarsch (as editor) (1864/2002)
• Highlights from "Exodus" (as arranger) (1960/1962)
• Highlights from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as arranger) (1963/1965)
• The Hounds of Spring (1981)
• Hymn Variants (1992)
• I Left my Heart in San Francisco (as transcriber; ed. Rogers) (1954/1963)
• Imperatrix (1972)
• In Dulci Jubilo (as arranger) (1970)
• Intrada Drammatica (1968/1992)
• 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)
• Light Cavalry Overture (as editor; tr. McAlister) (1866/2003)
• A Little Concert Suite (1984)
• Mancini! (as arranger) (1965)
• March Golden Eagle (1989/1995)
• March Grandioso (as arranger) (1901/1969)
• Mary Poppins (as arranger) (1964/2006)
• Millennium III (1999)
• Mr. Music (1990)
• Music for Hamlet (1973/2018)
• The Music-Makers (1968)
• The Music Man: Highlights (as arranger) (1957/1959)
• My Heart Is Filled With Longing (as arranger) (c. 1710/1986)
• Nimrod (as arranger) (1899/1965)
• Nocturne (as arranger) (1886/1953/1975)
• A Northern Legend (1972)
• Ode for Trumpet (1956)
• Othello (1977)
• Our Father Who Art in Heaven (as arranger) (1710/1988)
• 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 (as arranger)
• Prelude IV (as arranger) (1722/1983)
• Prelude and Capriccio (1978)
• Presentation of the Silver Rose (as arranger) (1910/1988)
• Pro Texana (1984)
• Punchinello (1974)
• Radetzky March (as arranger) (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)
• Seascape: A Dramatic Intermezzo (1962)
• Second Century (1986)
• Second Suite for Band (1980)
• Second Symphony (1979)
• Serenade (1966)
• Seventh Suite for Band (2002)
• The Severn Suite (as arranger) (1973)
• Siciliana Notturno (1977)
• Silver Shadow
• Sine Nomine (as arranger) (1906/1976)
• Sixth Suite for Band
• Slavonic Folk Suite (1953)
• Song of Threnos (1964)
• A Springtime Celebration (1991)
• The Strenuous Life (as arranger) (1902/1974)
• Sumus Futuro (1999)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Viva Musica! (1984)
• With Trumpets And Drums (1992)

Resources

• Reed, A. (1995). Fifth Suite for Band: International Dances [score]. Hal Leonard: Milwaukee, Wisc.