Little Suite for Band

Clare Grundman

This work bears the designation QMB Journal 227.

General Info

Year: 1957
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $95.00 | Score Only (print) - $11.95

Movements

1. Prelude
2. Ballad
3. Festival

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet Solo-I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet Solo-I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Orchestra Bells
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle
Vibraphone
Wood Block

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Composed in 1957, Little Suite for Band was written for and dedicated to Richard Otto and the Lyman Hall High School Band (Wallingford, Connecticut). Each of the three short contrasting movements (Prelude, Ballad, and Festival) vary most notably in the style and articulation that they require.

- Program Note from McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band concert program, 18 December 2006

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
Audio CD: McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band (Stephen Peterson, conductor) - 2006

State Ratings

Alabama: Class CC
Arkansas: II
Florida: III
Iowa: II
Kansas: III
Louisiana: II
Maryland: III
Massachusetts: II
Michigan: Junior High A
Minnesota: III
North Carolina: III
Oklahoma: II-A
South Carolina: III
Tennessee: III
Virginia: III
West Virginia: III

Performances

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Rufus King (Milwaukee, Wisc.) Concert Band - 11 December 2014
University of Mississippi (Oxford) Symphonic Band (David Willson, conductor) – 26 February 2010 (CBDNA 2010 Southern Division Conference, Oxford, Miss.)
McCracken Middle School (Skokie, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Stephen Peterson, conductor) – 22 December 2006 (2006 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1954/2006/2017)

All Wind Works

American Folk Rhapsody No. 1 (1948)
American Folk Rhapsody No. 2. See: Second American Folk Rhapsody
American Folk Rhapsody No. 3 (1970)
American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 (1977)
A Bernstein Tribute (as arranger) (1991)
The Black Knight (1956)
The Blue and the Gray (1961)
The Blue and the Gray (arr. Longfield) (1961/2013)
The Blue-Tail Fly (1951)
Burlesque for Band (1967)
Caprice for Clarinets (1961)
Chorale from "Concord" (arr. Longfield) (1988/2018)
Concord (1987)
Concertante for Alto Sax and Band (1973)
A Copland Portrait (as adapter) (1986)
A Copland Tribute (as arranger) (1986)
An English Christmas (1982)
English Suite (1968)
Fantasy on American Sailing Songs (1952)
Fantasy on English Hunting Songs (1985)
Flutation (1961)
The Green Domino (1951)
Hebrides Suite (1962)
An Irish Rhapsody (1971)
Japanese Rhapsody (1969)
Kentucky 1800 (1954/1987)
Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1954/2006/2017)
Little English Suite (1968)
Little Suite for Band (1957)
March Processional (1950)
A Medieval Story (1966)
Music for a Carnival (1957)
Nocturne for Harp and Band (1975)
Quiet Christmas (1959)
A Scottish Rhapsody (1981)
Second American Folk Rhapsody (1959)
Señor, Señor (1963) (as Carlos Guermo)
Slava! (as transcriber) (1977/1978)
A Somerset Rhapsody (as transcriber) (1906/1927/1980)
Spirit of '76 (1964)
Three Sketches for Winds (1969)
Two Moods (1947)
Tuba Rhapsody
A Welsh Rhapsody (1968)
Western Dance (1968)

Resources

Grundman, C. (1957). Little Suite for Band [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: [s.l.]
Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. (2010). Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 1. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 182-189.