Parody Suite
From Wind Repertory Project
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General Info
Year: 1997-2007
Duration: c. 21'00" (see relevant page for that work's duration)
Difficulty: VI (entire work - see relevant page for that work's individual difficulty) (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Gorilla Salad Productions / distributed by Hal Leonard
Cost: See page for each work for the pricing information. All works are distributed by Hal Leonard.
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Note
Parody Suite is the umbrella term for my four pieces that quote and rework familiar melodies from other popular band works:
- Chester Leaps In (1997)
- ImPercynations (2002)
- MetaMarch (2003)
- Suite Dreams (2007)
While I've used the term "parody" in this title, I do NOT mean it to imply that I'm belittling or ridiculing any of the original pieces. In fact, I believe it would be more accurate to describe these as 'remixes' of the originals, as filtered through my hazy memory of playing these works when I was a student in various bands. They can be performed together, or individually, or in any combination. If you're performing all four, the intended order is: ImPercynations, Suite Dreams, MetaMarch, Chester Leaps In. This ordering preserves some key relationships I've purposely set up across the works, and helps it to somewhat adhere to a traditional symphonic scheme (slow 2nd mvt., march for the 3rd mvt., etc.). This order is not set in stone, however. A common programming approach with several of these in the past has been to pair them with the associated parodied work - Chester Leaps In and Schumann's Chester have appeared on a number of programs together.
Three of these (Chester Leaps In, ImPercynations, and MetaMarch) are featured in Teaching Music through Performance in Band, Volume 5, in a definitive article by William Berz.
Program Note by Steven Bryant
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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
- Alchemy in Silent Spaces
- A Million Suns at Midnight
- Bloom
- Concerto for Wind Ensemble
- Dusk
- First Light
- Interruption Overture
- Monkey
- Radiant Joy
- RedLine
- Rise
- Stampede
- Wings that Work
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Categories: Compositions | Grade VI | Multi-Movement | Suites | Folksongs | Marches
