Prelude and Rondo

David Holsinger

General Info

Year: 1966 / 1976
Duration: c. 7:25
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score & Parts - $60.00 | Score Only - $5.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
French Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle
Wood Block

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Unusual chord progressions establish a mystical mood until the arrival of a fierce presto agitato full of syncopated melodic material. Students will enjoy the jazz-like interplay between parts.

- Program Note from publisher

Prelude and Rondo was composed in the spring of 1966 and was first performed that December by the Central Methodist College Concert Band, and conducted by the composer at age 21.

"It is interesting to note how ‘intuition’ plays a part in the compositional arena,” Holsinger wrote. “After years of compositional study about the ‘craft of composition,’ I am amazed that my first piece -- probably from sheer naiveté -- contained mixed meter, metric modulations, asymmetrical phrases over bar lines, and the beginnings of the “ostinato principal,” which has become one of my signatures. I didn’t plan these things; they just happen because it seemed the right thing to do to put the music on the page.” (Ostinato is a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.)

Prelude and Rondo is modal in nature, using the Aeolian (white keys from A to A), Phrygian (white keys from E to E) and Myxolydian (white keys from G to G) modes. It also contains frequent meter changes, asymmetrical meters, polyphony that has several melodic ideas using different rhythms at the same moment, and hemiolas, in which two groups of three beats are replaced by three groups of two beats, giving the effect of a shift between triple and duple meter.

- Program Note from University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire University Band concert program, 27 November 2017

Media

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State Ratings

Alabama: Class A
Arkansas: IV
Florida: V
Georgia: V
Louisiana: IV
Maryland: V
Michigan: Senior High A
Minnesota: II
Mississippi: VI-A
North Carolina: V
Oklahoma: IV-A
South Carolina: V
Tennessee: V
Virginia: V

Performances

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Central Methodist University (Fayette, Mo.) Concert Band (Skip Vandelicht, conductor) - 5 March 2023
Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) University Band (Terry Austin, conductor) - 20 April 2022
Sacramento (Calif.) State University Concert Band (Matthew Morse, conductor) – 25 November 2019
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla) Wind Symphony (David Sampson, conductor) – 6 October 2019
Ohio University (Athens) Symphonic Band (Richard Suk, conductor) – 24 September 2019
The Ohio State University (Columbus) Collegiate Winds (Phillip Day, conductor) – 26 February 2019
Indiana University (Bloomington) All-Campus Band (Emily Rodeck, conductor) – 4 December 2018
Texas Tech University (Lubbock) Raider Band (Skye Brown, conductor) – 6 May 2018
University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire University Band (Randal C. Dickerson, conductor) – 27 November 2017
University of Nevada Wind Ensemble (A.G. McGrannahan III, conductor) - CBDNA Western/Northwestern Division Convention (Reno, Nev.) 14 March 2014
University City Summer Band (Delmar, Mo.) (Tom Poshak, conductor) - 2012

Works for Winds by This Composer

Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
Adagio (2000)
The Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman! (2014)
American Faces (1996)
Ancient Dances (2020)
The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf (1981)
Army Ants March and Boogie (2005)
At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
Ballet Exaltare (1999)
Ballet Sacra (1990)
Battle Music (1990)
A Call to Celebration (2012)
Canticles! (2001)
The Case of the Mysterious Stranger (1990)
The Chase (2003)
A Childhood Hymn (as arranger) (1862/1991)
City Symphony
- Cityscape I (Festive Hours Neon Night) (2001)
- Cityscape II (Lonely Hours Anguished Night) (2004)
- Cityscape III (Morning Hours Salvation Light) (2008)
The Cluster Bluster Fluster March (1991)
Connacht Rhapsody (2017)
Consider the Uncommon Man (1992)
Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
Deerpath Dances (1996)
Divertimented Dances (2006)
The Easter Symphony (1986-1997)
Elegy on an American Folk Tune (2006)
Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
Every Morning New (2002)
Falcon Attack! (2002)
Fanfare for Brass and Timpani (2003)
Fanfare for Such a Time as This (2007)
Fanfare for the Glorious Naycart (2001)
Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
Fantasy on Old Hundred (2019)
Festiva Jubiloso (2000)
Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
Fort Canterbury March (1989)
The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron (1988)
Gears Pulleys Chains (2006)
Gmyway’s Revenge! (1994)
Graysondance (1993)
Gypsydance (1994)
Havendance (1985)
The Helm Toccata (1991)
Hero Music (2005)
Homage: Three Tapestries (1999)
Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else (1990)
In Praise of Gentle Pioneers (1996)
In the Spring at the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
A Jolly Walk in Hibbertland (1991)
Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
Kansas City Dances (1978)
L'Arco della Vita (2021)
Lake Canterbury Regatta (1993)
Last Run (2020)
A Little Adventure Music (2002)
Little Fantasy on an American Hymn (2009)
A Little Mystery Music (1996)
Liturgical Dances (1984)
The Maelstrom (2009)
The March of the Combat Patrol (1991)
March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
March on a Russian Hymnsong (2003)
Mobbusters! (1994)
Nilesdance (1987)
On a Childhood Sunday Song (2004)
On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1989)
On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowry (1993)
On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
On an American Spiritual (1991)
On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances (1988)
On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon (1999)
On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
On the Overland Stage to El Paso (2006)
One Day in a Small Town (2004)
Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince (2009)
Partita Allegro (1997)
The Peasant Village Dance (1990)
Praises! (2001)
Prairie Dances (1998)
Prelude and Presto (2018)
Prelude and Rondo (1976)
The Pride of Buxmont (2000)
Providence Unfinished (2002)
Quiet River (2011)
Reagan of Illinois (2011)
Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
Riding With the Frontier Battalion (2000)
Scaling the North Wall (1990)
Scootin’ on Hardrock (1999)
Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary (1981)
Sinfonia Voci (1993)
Solemn Hymn & Rowdy Dance (2010)
Soliloquy (2020)
Some Give All (2016)
A Song of Moses (1999)
Summer to Fall: A Love Song (2006)
Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
Symphonic Movement (2000)
Texas Promenade (1999
Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword (2004)
To Live a Life Triumphant (2007)
To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March (1994)
The War Trilogy: 1971 (1999)
The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
Zinphonia (2017)

Resources

David Holsinger website Accessed 29 August 2021
Holsinger, D. (1976). Prelude and Rondo [score]. C.L. Barnhouse: Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 294.
Van Gilder, Chris. An examination of works for wind band: They led my Lord away arranged by Fred J. Allen, English folk song suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Variation overture by Clifton Williams, Dance of the rose maidens by Aram Khachaturian, arranged by James Truscello, Prelude and rondo by David R. Holsinger, And valdres marsj by Johannes Hanssen, arranged by Loras J. Schissel [Master's Thesis]