Loco Motion
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 2:30
Difficulty: III-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $78.00; (digital) - $78.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass 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
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Hi-Hat
- Snare Drum
- Tom-Tom (medium and high)
- Vibra-slap
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The emphasis is on the word "loco" with this frenetic concert work. The wind parts are wildly rhythmic and players have the opportunity to duel with the percussion section using their hands and feet.
- Program Note from publisher
The composer describes this work as a musical play on words, with emphasis on the “boo”, or “crazy” rhythms. The wind parts are extremely rhythmic and quick, even on static pitches, and wind players have the opportunity to duel with the percussion section using both their hands and feet. The frenetic energy and pace of this piece is contagious!
- Program Note from Indian Springs Middle School Band concert program, 12 February 2016
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Va.) Wind Ensemble (Heather Dobbins, conductor) - 6 November 2023
- Riverside High School (Painesville, Ohio) Wind Ensemble (David Schwartz, conductor) – 13 May 2022
- Indian Springs Middle School (Keller, Texas) Band (David Puckett, conductor) - 12 February 2016 (2016 TMEA Conference, San Antonio)
- Fremd High School Wind Symphony (Palatine, Ill.) – 28 September 2015
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.