Hispania
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Subtitle: Fantasía española para banda sinfónica
General Info
Year: 2013 / 2016
Duration: c. 9:50
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Óscar Navarro
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €165.00
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
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone I-II
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Flugelhorn I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Piano
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Castanets
- Claves
- Crash Cymbals
- Flamenco Box
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Spanish Guitar
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
It’s a fantasy for concert band dedicated to the Municipal Band of Alicante (Valencia, Spain) and an homage to the great Spanish composers of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Those composers nurtured our country culture and taken it beyond our borders, composers who have made their music part of our lives and the Spanish National Culture before, now and forever.
With this piece, I wanted to make a nod to the nationalist compositional language of late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and give a fresh touch without losing the traditional essence and of course using traditional rhythmic dances of our folklore.
The Alicante Municipal Band has never missed music in their programming from our ancestors, so with this piece I want to offer a badge to the band, who can proudly wear everywhere and with a stamp with “Alicantina´s roots”, such as mine.
- Program Note by composer
Para la Banda Municipal de Alicante por su primer centenario 1913-2013.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Fresno (Calif.) State University Wind Orchestra (Gary P. Gilroy, conductor) - 25 March 2023 (2023 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- Morningside University (Sioux City, Ia.) Wind Ensemble (Martin I. Gaines, conductor) - 9 Oct 2022
- University of North Texas (Denton) Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) – 28 April 2022
- Lone Star Wind Orchestra (Dallas, Tx.) (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) - 24 April 2022
- Grand Symphonic Winds (Twin Cities, Minn.) (Matthew George, conductor) – 27 February 2016 (CBDNA 2016 North Central Division Conference, Ames, Iowa)
- Banda Municipal de Alicante (Spain) (José Rafel Pascual Vilaplana, conductor) – 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Concerto for Oboe and Wind Band. See: Legacy
- Concerto for Clarinet (2006)
- Connection (2019)
- Downey Overture (2011)
- El Arca de Noé (2011)
- El Ilustre Marino (2013/2016/2018)
- El Olimpo de los Dioses (tr. Alvarez and Navarro) (2015)
- Expedition (2016)
- The Fly (2013), from Bestiarium
- Font Negra (2015)
- The Gods of Olympus. See: El Olimpo de los Dioses
- Hell and Heaven (2019)
- Hispania (2013)
- II Concerto (2012)
- Jumper Clarinet (2009/2016)
- Las Siete Trompetas del Apocalipsis (2011)
- Latent Emotions (2016)
- Legacy (2015/2016)
- Libertadores (2010)
- The Mountains of Switzerland (2018)
- The Musketeers (2019)
- New Dawn (2022)
- Paconchita (2016/2022)
- Paradise
- The Seven Trumpets of the Apocalypse. See: Las Siete Trompetas del Apocalipsis
- Shanghai (2009)
- Trips
Resources
- Navarro, O. (2016). Hispania : Fantasía española para banda sinfónica [score]. Óscar Navarro Music: Madrid, Spain.
- Óscar Navarro website Accessed 2 September 2018