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Flourish
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General Info
Year: 2000
Duration: c. 2:20
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A Kjos Music - Official Website
Cost: Score & Parts - $65.00 | Score Only - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Bb Contrabass Clarinet
Bassoon I-II
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Cornet (in Bb) I-II-III
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II
French Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-tam)
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Timpani (4)
- Tom-Toms (2)
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Flourish was commissioned by the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Junior and Senior Music Camps and the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Bands, Kevin Collins, director, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Summer Music Camps. It was premiered on August 3, 1996 with the composer conducting.
There is a two-fold reason for titling the work Flourish. First, the composition is indeed a "flourish" in the musical sense - "an ornate musical passage; fanfare" is how most dictionaries define this particular meaning of the term. The second reason to use this title reflects the emphasis on environmental studies on the UW-Green Bay Campus. If something "flourishes", it "grows vigorously, succeeds, thrives, prospers". It seemed appropriate for me to use this alternate definition to dictate how the material of the composition would be generated.
The work "flourishes", if you will, from the opening interval of a minor third, stated with the pitches G and Bb (for Green Bay). As the music proceeds, elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony develop according to a natural sense of growth and evolution.
Program Note by Timothy Mahr
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Audio Links
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Recent Performances
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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
- All Hail the Power
- Argentum
- Bridge Square March
- Carolina Folk Dream
- Daydream
- Endurance
- Everyday Hero
- Fanfare and Grand March
- Fantasia in G
- Festivals
- Flourish
- Hey!
- Hymn and Celebration
- Immigrant Dreams
- Imprints
- Inaugural Dances
- Into the Air!
- Mighty March, A
- Mourning Dances
- Noble Element
- Passages (1984)
- Quiet Place To Think, A
- Soaring Hawk, The
- Sol Solator
- Spring Divertimento
- Uncle Lumpy's Garage
- View from the Mountaintop
- When I Close My Eyes, I See Dancers
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