In tantum lux
The title of this work is intentionally written in lower case.
General Info
Year: 2016
Duration: c. 4:05
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $58.00; (digital) - $58.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-I
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 I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The title translates to "The Only Light" and is most fitting for this musical celebration honoring the life of a music educator and her faith. The exuberant opening reflects the positive energy that all educators use to persevere through challenges and unique demands that teaching band presents. The poignant and expressive middle section reflects those many quiet moments of small but important victories that make teaching so rewarding.
- Program Note from publisher
In tantum lux (The only light) was written as a memorial and celebration honoring the life of a music educator and her faith, who taught in a small school her entire career and persevered through the challenges and unique demands that teaching small school bands present. The piece also serves as a celebration of every band student and teacher in small schools everywhere who may not have the resources to have a full ensemble, yet strive every day to experience the joy of making music to the fullest just the same.
- Program Note from Cockrill Middle School Honors Band concert program, 14 December 2016
Commissioned by the Illinois Music Educators Association Band Division, Kris Cox, Vice-President, in memory of Gloria Winkleman.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Blinn College (Bryan, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Kendall Prinz, conductor) - 3 March 2023
- Keystone High School (LaGrange, Ohio) Band (Brett Benzin, conductor) – 28 February 2020
- Louis Pizitz Middle School (Vestavia Hills, Ala.) Symphonic Band (Kim Bain, conductor) – 22 February 2018 (CBDNA 2018 Southern Conference, Tampa, Fla.)
- Bemidji (Minn.) State University Symphonic Band (Scott Guidry, conductor) – 20 April 2017
- Cockrill Middle School (McKinney, Texas) Honors Band (Gary Williams, conductor) - 14 December 2016 (2016 Midwest Clinic)
- Cockrill Middle School (McKinney, Texas) Honors Band – October 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Escape Route (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- As the Robin to the Meadow (2006)
- The Capital March (as arranger) (1920/2014)
- Castles and Dragons (2005)
- Christmas Fanfares (2004)
- Clouds That Sail in Heaven (2007)
- Counterbalance (2013)
- Critical Mass (2010)
- Cut to the Chase (2012)
- The Dragon's Lair (2008)
- Dynamo (2015)
- Écossaise for Military Band (as arranger)
- Escape Route (2020)
- Escape Route (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Fighting Falcon March (2006)
- Gather Ye Rosebuds (2019)
- Glen Crossing (2010)
- Ignition (2011)
- In tantum lux (2016)
- Knox Bridge Jubilee (2018)
- Lightning! (2004)
- Loco Motion (2015)
- Longthorpe Tower (2019)
- March, Opus 108 (as arranger) (1841/2011)
- Mechanism (2014)
- My Soul a Canvas (2019)
- Noel! (2010)
- Poème (2007)
- Quasars (2009)
- Rampage! (2009)
- Rephrygeration (2016)
- Scramble (2012)
- Shadows Unseen (2017)
- Shady Grove (2011)
- Sketches on a Kentucky Hymn Tune (2005)
- Three Welsh Songs (2013)
- Then I Saw the Lucent Sky (2008)
- Trumpets of Symphony Hall (2012)
- Two Renaissance Sketches (2009)
- Vier Deutsche Weihnachtslieder (as arranger)
- Whirlybird (2013)
- Wildflowers (2018)
- With Uncommon Valor (2017)
Resources
None discovered thus far.