Free Running
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 5:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00; (digital) - $85.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
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
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Tom-Tom
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Free Running is an exciting, high velocity tour-de-force that will keep both musicians and the audience on the edge of their seats. Inspiration for the work came from the pointillistic paintings of Seurat (who created images by using tiny spots of primary colors on his canvas) and from Parkour, a form of urban acrobatics in which participants, known as free runners, use the structures of the rural landscape to perform catlike leaps and sprints. The resulting creation is a non-stop piece of music made up of only staccato notes in a constant rhythm moving through different sections of the ensemble.
Free Running was commissioned by the Troy University Symphony Band for the 2011 Alabama Music Educators Association Convention.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class AA
- MusicFest Canada: B500
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Rouge River Winds (Toronto, Ont., Can.) (Pratik Gandhi, conductor) - 10 November 2023
- Clovis (Calif.) East High School Wind Ensemble (Marco Mellone, conductor) - 6 March 2020
- Central High School (Fresno. Calif.) Wind Symphony (Leonard Ingrande, conductor) - 12 March 2016 (2016 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
All Wind Works
- Above and Beyond (2020)
- Ancient Stone Circles (2015)
- Arctic Fire. See: Symphony No. 1
- Attack of the Cyborgs (2017)
- Autumn's Garland. See: Symphony No. 3
- Bigfoot Stomp (2020)
- Cathedral Grove (2012)
- Codebreaker (2013)
- Continuum (2011)
- December (2013)
- Doctor Who (as arranger) (2016)
- Dreamcatcher (2016)
- Eagle Song (as arranger) (2018)
- Echo Lake (2014)
- Echoes of the Silent (2018)
- Excerpts from "The Rite of Spring" (as arranger) (2015)
- Fantasy on the Huron Carol (2014)
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- Finn McCool (2020)
- Free Running (2012)
- From the Highest Peak (2017)
- The Gathering of Eagles (as arranger) (2018)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
- Highway of Heroes (2019)
- Hymn to Freedom (as arranger) (1962/2017)
- I Am the Doctor (as arranger) (2015)
- Iditarod. See: Symphony No. 1
- Jitterbug! (2018)
- Kingdom of the Sun and Moon (2015)
- The Knights' Creed (2018)
- Land of the Midnight Sun. See: Symphony No. 1
- LOL (2016)
- The Legend of Billy Miner (2018)
- Let the Bells Ring! (2015)
- Lightspeed (2017)
- The Lions March (2020)
- The Magic Mirror (2020)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
- Ogopogo (2015)
- An Olympic Celebration (2007/2010)
- Pacifica (Buckley) (2013)
- The Pathway to the Stars (2023)
- Portraits of the North. See: Symphony No. 1
- Postcard from Amsterdam (2015)
- Postcard from England (2014)
- Postcard from Pittsburgh (2013)
- Prestidigitation (2016)
- Procession of the Sorcerers (2009/2012)
- Propulsion (2014)
- Raven (as arranger) (2020)
- ReBoot (2013)
- Red Sky (2015)
- Rock It Science (2013)
- The Seas of the Moon
- Sea of Tranquility (2018)
- Foaming Sea (2018)
- Sea of Clouds (2019)
- Serpent Sea (2019)
- Shadowplay (2012)
- Smoke and Mirrors (2012)
- Smugglers' Cove (2019)
- Snow (2017)
- Spirit of the Wolf (as arranger) (2019)
- Spring Awakening. See: Symphony No. 3
- Squonk Blues (2016)
- Starburst (2015)
- Summer Festivals. See: Symphony No. 3
- Sunlight Dancing (2023)
- Symphony No. 1 (2012–14)
- Arctic Fire (2014)
- Land of the Midnight Sun (2013)
- Iditarod (2012)
- Symphony No. 3 (2021)
- Synergy (2019)
- Themes from "The Crown" (as arranger) (2020)
- Thunderbird
- A Tribute to Arthur Delamont
- Front and Center (2015)
- Memento (2015)
- Flying Colors (2015)
- Under the Prairie Sky
- Undercurrents (2016)
- Walking to the Sky (2016)
- Where Mountains Touch the Sky (2014)
- Wild Rose Jamboree (2016)
- Windjammer (2011)
- Winter Light. See: Symphony No. 3
- Wolf Song (as arranger) (2019)
Resources
- Buckley, R. (2012). Free Running [score]. Hal Leonard Corp.: Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Robert Buckley." Accessed 18 March 2016