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Green Passacaglia
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General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 3:25
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Grand Mesa Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $45.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Using the centuries-old form of passacaglia (slow dance with a ground bas of four measures), Broege here creates a delightful, inherently musical setting for young band as only he could create. Green Passacaglia is "green" because the music grows organically from a simple four-measure melody for the alto saxophone to a rich texture for the entire ensemble.
- Program Note from publisher
Green Passacaglia, written in 2005, came to Broege while he was taking a walk one afternoon thinking about writing a work for younger level bands. He believes that a younger-level work should be locked into a predetermined form to allow the conductor to use the form as a launching pad for a teaching moment – in this particular case o this work, the ground bass of the passacaglia.
As with all passacaglias, this work is a set of variations on the main theme.
- Program Note from Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- America Verses (1997)
- Bartok Variations (as arranger) (2003)
- Blue Alien Accumulation (2003)
- Blue Goose Rag (as arranger) (1916/1986)
- Burlesco for Band (2006)
- Charlotte Doyle's Voyage
- The Child and the Kings (1995)
- Children and Gentlemen (as arranger) (2010)
- Climbing Eagle Mountain (2009)
- Concert Piece for Trumpet and Band
- Concerto for Marimba
- Deep River (as arranger) (2006)
- Dreams and Fancies (1988)
- Dreams of the Blue River (2009)
- El Jardin de Esperanza (2008)
- Enumeration of the Actual
- Fable and Folk Tale (2005)
- Falling Water (2015)
- Forest Green (as arranger) (2007)
- Four Breton Dances (2007)
- Four in One (2015)
- Geneva (2006)
- Geography of the Dream (2001)
- Green Passacaglia (2005)
- Greensleeves (as arranger)
- Grizzly Bear Rag (1994)
- The Headless Horseman (1973/1980)
- Jody
- Kum Ba Yah (2004)
- Mysterian Landscapes (2001)
- No Sun, No Shadow, Elegy for Charles Mingus
- Old Welsh Reverie (2009)
- Partita for Band (2017)
- Peace Song (1990)
- Pilgrim Traveler (2005)
- Prelude and Fughetta (2005)
- Procession and Torch Dance (1999)
- Rhythm Games: The Waukesha Rondo (2010)
- Rhythm Machine (1986)
- Scale Plus Line (2009)
- Seneca Variations (2015)
- Serenade
- Serenata
- Sinfonia III: Hymns and Dances (1972/2009)
- Sinfonia IV: Suite for Winds and Percussion
- Sinfonia V: Symphonia Sacra et Profana (1990)
- Sinfonia VI: The Four Elements (1982)
- Sinfonia XII: Southern Heart, Sacred Harp
- Sinfonia XIII: Storm Variations
- Sinfonia XIV: Three Canzonas
- Sinfonia XV: Ursa Major
- Sinfonia XVI: Transcendental Vienna (1995)
- Sinfonia XVII: The Four Winds
- Sinfonia XVIII: Aurora (2009)
- Sinfonia XIX: Preludes and Grounds
- Sinfonia XXI (2000)
- Slow March with Celebration
- Sonata for Wind Band (1994)
- Song and Variations (2001)
- Southern Suite
- Streets and Inroads (1975/1980/1996)
- Surfboard Blues
- The Tango Disappearing (2010)
- Theme and Variations (1995)
- Three Pieces for American Band, Set I (1974)
- Three Pieces for American Band, Set II (1982)
- Three Preludes (as arranger)
- Three Scenes (2010)
- Toccata for Band (2015)
- Train Heading West and Other Outdoor Scenes (1998)
- The Water Is Wide, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Wicked Story (2008)
- Yuletide Dances
Resources
- Broege, T. (2005). Green Passacaglia [score]. Grand Mesa: Grand Junction, Colo.
- Perusal score
- Ratliff, David. "Green Passacaglia." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 195-200. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.
- Timothy Broege website Accessed 21 September 2017