Holyrood
General Info
Year: 1913(?)
Duration: c. 2:55
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $86.34 | Score Only (print) - $6.39
For availability information, see Discussion tab, above.
Instrumentation
Condensed Score
Piccolo/Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornets Solo-I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Drums, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Holyrood or Holy Rood is a Christian relic alleged to be part of the True Cross on which Jesus died. The word derives from the Old English rood, meaning a pole and the cross, via Middle English, or the Scots haly ruid ("holy cross"). Several relics venerated as part of the True Cross are known by this name, in England, Ireland and Scotland.
The Holyrood march is the official quick march of Great Britain's Royal Air Force Regiment.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines (J.R. Perkins, conductor)
- Audio CD: The Music of Kenneth Alford. The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines (J.R. Mason, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Benedictine College (Atchison, Kan.) Wind Ensemble (Tom Davoren, conductor) -3 December 2023
- Golden Gate Park Band (San Francisco, Calif.) (Craig McKenzie, conductor) - 16 July 2023
- Golden Gate Park Band (San Francisco, Calif.) (Danielle Gaudry, conductor) - 19 June 2022
- The Royal Regiment of Scotland Military Band - 2019
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Army of the Nile (1941)
- By Land and Sea (1941)
- Cavalry of the Clouds (1923)
- Colonel Bogey (1914)
- Colonel Bogey (ed. Fennell) (1914/1982)
- Colonel Bogey (arr. Glover) (1914/2000)
- Colonel Bogey (arr. Williams) (1914/2001)
- Colonel Bogey on Parade (1934)
- Dunedin (1928)
- Eagle Squadron (1942)
- Eagle Squadron (arr. Rogers) (1942/2016)
- The Great Little Army (arr. Winter) (1916)
- HM Jollies (1929)
- Holyrood (1912)
- The Lightning Switch Fantasia (1924)
- The Mad Major (ed. Fennell) (1921/1983)
- Middy, The (arr. Gore) (1917)
- A Musical Switch (1921)
- Old Panama (1929)
- On the Quarter Deck (1917)
- Standard of St George, The (1930)
- The Thin Red Line (1908/1925)
- The Vanished Army (1918)
- The Vanished Army (ed. Fennell) (1919/1986)
- The Vedette (1913)
- The Voice of the Guns (1917)
Resources
- Alford, F. [1913]. Holyrood: Quick Step [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: London, Eng.
- Holyrood. Wikipedia Accessed 17 June 2022.
- Trendell, John. Colonel Bogey to the Fore: A Biography of Kenneth J. Alford. Blue Band Magazine, [1991], p. 96.