Overture Ciné Noir
General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c. 7:15
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Sound Studio Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $95.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto 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
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Orchestra Bells
- Rachet
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Overture Ciné Noir (for Band) by Mark Wolfram is a musical homage to the Film Noir era of the 1940s and 1950s. With its low-key black-and-white palette, stark and smokey lighting style and long shadows, Film Noir has its roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic film noir is derived from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. This composition reflects the high drama of these films with the exposition and development of exciting action-driven themes of mystery and romance.
With sweeping melodies and dark harmonic material, Overture Ciné Noir moves through a series of musical vignettes, always maintaining its introspective and brooding nature. It highlights strong melodic lines, rapid scale patterns, rich sonorities, angular intervals, tempo and mood changes, and multiple meters.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- All Points Bulletin: In Hot Pursuit (2014)
- An American Rhapsody (2009)
- Brass Trio (1988)
- Colonial Scenes (2016)
- Divertissement (as transcriber) (2013)
- Extra! Extra! Read All About It! (2019)
- Fast Falls the Eventide (2014)
- Four Fripperies (2020)
- Gloria in Mundo Pax (2019)
- Golden Anniversary Fanfare (2018)
- Homily (2016)
- Interludes for Percussion and Trumpet (1985)
- Invictus (2019)
- Labyrinth (for Brass Quintet) (2010)
- Labyrinth (2018)
- March László (2015)
- March Malchus (2017)
- Monkey Mind (2020)
- Monograms (1996)
- Overture Ciné Noir (2012)
- Paean (2020)
- Residual Tension (2015)
- Reverie (2019)
- Soldiers of Destiny (2011)
- Sonoran Celebration (2018)
- The Sounds of Now
- Spectral Shifts (2015)
- The Swashbuckler (2011)
- Syncopation in Blue (2020)
- Tag - You're It! (2013)
- Theme to "Captain Kangaroo" (Puffin' Billy) (as arranger) (1952/2013)
- Three Intradas for Band (2011)
- Three Short Christmas Carols (2010)
- Tirolean Trek (2012)
- The Tucson March (2017)
- Vertical Planes (2016)
- With Malice Toward None (2012)