Lauda
General Info
Year: 2007 / 2011
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manhattan Beach Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $115.00 | Score Only - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
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
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Bongos
- Chimes
- Claves
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Slapstick
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In the Renaissance, laude were vernacular sacred songs. In this work, both vernacular and sacred aspects of school and students are represented. The vernacular is represented by the driving sixteenth-note hi-hat figure in the opening, and the chord progressions, bass line, and melodies -- all reminiscent of pop music. The sacred facet of the piece deals with transformation.
The work opens in G minor and moves through an unsettled introduction, a resolute A section, and a questioning B section, and on to a giant climax on octave Ds throughout the ensemble. The section that follows transforms the B material, and serves as a dominant pedal leading to a shortened recapitulation of all the previous material in a joyous and triumphant transformation in G major.
- Program Note from Louis Pizitz Middle School Symphony Band concert program, 16 December 2015
Awards
- Second International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest, second prize
Media
- Audio: University of New Hampshire Summer Youth Music School Wind Ensemble (Andrew Boysen, Jr., conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Miami (Ohio) University Symphony Band (Brooke H. Johnson, conductor) - 28 February 2023
- University of Louisville (Ky.) Concert Band (Jason Cumberledge, conductor) - 17 February 2020
- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Clinic Honor Band I (Amy M. Knopps, conductor) – 2 February 2020
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) North Star Campus Band (J. Nick Smith, conductor) – 24 October 2019
- Louis Pizitz Middle School (Vestavia Hills, Ala.) Symphonic Band (Kim Bain, conductor) - 16 December 2015 (2015 Midwest Clinic)
- The Cardinal Honor Band, Iowa State University (Ricky Brooks, conductor) - 8 February 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Beyond Autumn (as transcriber) (1999/2006)
- Lauda (2007/2011)
- Symphony for Wind Ensemble (2006)
Resources
- Miles, T. (2011). Lauda: For Concert Band [score]. Manhattan Beach Music: Brooklyn.
- Mills, Alan W. "Lauda." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 9, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 171-183. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2013.
- Timothy Miles website Accessed 4 November 2019