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Into the Blue
Contents
General Info
Year: 2016
Duration: c. 7:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III-IV
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
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-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Concert Tom (4)
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-Hat
- Kick Drum
- Marimba
- Slapstick
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
When I accepted a commission to write a jazz-inspired work for wind ensemble from Dan Dubay and the Howard W. Blake High School Wind Ensemble, I was caught slightly off guard. My knowledge of jazz was limited to having played in big band in high school and to a couple of jazz theory courses I took in college. Wanting to immerse myself in the medium head first, I took a beach vacation, listening to and studying as much jazz as I could. And that is how, beside the deep, blue Atlantic, I became enthralled with the blues, a genre originated by African Americans in the Deep South near the end of the 19th century.
Into the Blue pays homage to this uniquely American style. Not only are a majority of the melodies and harmonic progressions based on the blues scale, but the composition even references jazz-inspired compositions, most notably a quote from George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. It also employs swung melodies, drum set fills, big band-esque shout choruses, and many other jazz-originated features, in a wind ensemble homage to the blues.
- Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) Symphonic Band (Kelvin Jones, conductor) – 23 April 2019
- West Virginia University (Morgantown) Wind Symphony (Scott C. Tobias, conductor) – 15 April 2019
- Belmont University (Nashville, Tenn.) Wind Ensemble (Barry Kraus, conductor) – 8 February 2019
- Tallahassee (Fla.) Winds (Patrick Dunnigan, conductor) – 2 October 2018
- Winter Park (Fla.) High School Wind Symphony (Christopher Blackmer, conductor) – 22 February 2018 (CBDNA 2018 Southern Conference, Tampa, Fla.)
- Florida State University (Tallahassee) Concert Band (Michael Griffith, conductor) – 12 February 2018
- St. Olaf College Band (Northfield, Minn.) (Timothy Mahr, conductor) -7 October 2017
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Flight 19 (2011)
- Into the Blue (2016)
- Keystone Landscapes (2018)
- Many Hearts One Pulse (2017)
- Muse (2014)
- Outbreak (2013)
- Turn the Page (2017)
Resources
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 74/2 (September 2019), p. 26.
- Perusal score
