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Mam-Blu
General Info
Year: 2006 / 2020
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: James Syler
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Piccolo
- Flute
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Soprano Saxophone
Part 2
- Flute
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Soprano Saxophone
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Flugelhorn
- Marimba
Part 4
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Flugelhorn
- F Horn
- Euphonium
- Marimba
Part 5
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Euphonium
- Bass Trombone
- Tuba
- String Bass
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Mam-Blu is a fusion of mambo and the blues. The montunos and syncopations of Latin-American music are combined with the form and harmonic structure of the North American 12-bar blues. The result is a hybrid music symbolic of the collision of both worlds. This version for flexible instrumentation was originally the first movement of my American Dances for string orchestra (2006).
- Program Note by composer
Performance Notes
All parts are available in C, B-flat, E-flat, and F. Feel free to make octave changes depending on the instrument(s) used.
Media
- Audio: MIDI realization
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Calvin University (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Wind Ensemble (Tiffany Engle, conductor) - 14 April 2023
- Florida State University (Tallahassee) Wind Orchestra (Richard Clary, conductor) - 27 April 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
- Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
- Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
All Wind Works
- Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- A Blue Streak (2010)
- Cantique (2012)
- Congo Square (2016)
- Country Bandstand (2002)
- Fantasia on Brother James' Air (2023)
- Fantasia on "Silent Night" (2011)
- Fields (1994)
- Galop (as transcriber) (c. 1909/2013)
- Gearbox (2009)
- Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
- The Harmonious Blacksmith (as arranger) (1720/2020)
- Hocus Pocus (2013)
- The Hound of Heaven (1988)
- Hymn for Emmanuel (2015)
- Love Among the Ruins (2016)
- Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- Minton's Playhouse (1994)
- O Magnum Mysterium (1996)
- The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
- Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Seasons (2022)
- Silent Shadows to the Last (2017)
- Sinfonietta (2012)
- Storyville (1996)
- Suite Argentine (2020)
- Suite Louisiane (2018)
- Symphony No. 1, “Blue” (1999)
- Symphony No. 2 (2019)
- Tattoo (2005)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (2014)
- Wu Xing (2016)
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- James Syler website Accessed 3 July 2020