Ryukuan Fantasy for Band
This work may also be found under the spelling Ryukyuan Fantasy.
General Info
Year: 1997 / 1998 / 2013
Duration: c. 4:50
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Two pianos eight hands
Publisher: Ito Music, through Bravo Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - 12,000 yen; (digital) - 12,000 yen | Score only (print) - 2,000 yen
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Clarinet
B-flat Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium I-II
Tuba (div.)
String Bass (div.)
Timpani
Percussion (4 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongo
- Cabasa
- Conga
- Cowbell
- Crash Cymbal
- Glockenspiel
- Guiro
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal (2)
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam
- Triangle
- Wind Chime
- Wood Blocks
- Vibra-slap
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Originally sung in a slow cantabile style, this exciting musical arrangement, based on the Okinawan Folksong Asadoya Yunta, has an energetic rhythmic drive and momentum. The original version is for two pianos with eight hands and was commissioned by the Yo-gen-kai Association in March, 1997. It was premiered by the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts professor Setsuko Iwasaki and her students.
Other arrangements include: 2 pianos for 4 hands, one piano for 4 hands, solo piano, violin and piano, soprano saxophone and piano, piano sextet, saxophone quartet, violin with saxophone quartet and piano, saxophone quintet and piano, saxophone quartet and piano, marimba sextet, and piano and wind orchestra.
The first band version was commissioned and premiered by Toshima-Ku Wind Orchestra conducted by Ito himself. It was featured composition in the January 1999 issue of Band Journal (the popular Japanese wind band monthly by ONGAKU NO TOMO SHA). Later, it was re-commissioned and re-orchestrated for the Hamamatsu Municipal High School Band conducted by Hideki Koshiba. Since the original version was composed for piano, its strongly percussive character must remain.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Showa Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) - 2001
- Audio CD: Amagata Symphonic Band (Eiichi Tohyama, conductor) - 1999
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- York University (Toronto, Ont., Can.) Wind Symphony (Bill Thomas, conductor) – 5 December 2021
- Plymouth State University (NH.) Symphonic Band (Michael Truong, conductor) - 29 October 2018
- Hartwick College (Oneonta, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Andrew Pease, conductor) – 21 October 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adagio for Band (2006)
- A la Suite Classique (1996)
- As Time Is Passing On (2000)
- Carmen Fantasy (as arranger) (1875/2009)
- Choral Fantasy (2002)
- Cioccolata d'amore
- Concertino for piano and band (Ito) (2007)
- Concerto for Tsugaru-Shamisen and Band (2013)
- Diferencias on an Old Spanish Song (2020)
- Evocation (Ito)
- Fanfares for National Athletic Meet at Fukushima
- Fantasia Classica (1992)
- Fantasia on a Bach Chorale Prelude (2002/2013)
- Fantasy Variations (2004/2012)
- Festal Ballade for Band (2016)
- Festal Scenes (1986)
- Festeggiamo e Cantiamo, Musica Festiva per Banda
- Fuji, Symphonic Sketch for Band (1992)
- Funa-Uta (1993/1999)
- Gloriosa ("Gururiyoza") (1990/2013)
- Go For Broke (2000)
- Hamamatsu Overture
- Hanyang Forever! (2010)
- Kokiriko alla Marcia (1999)
- La Follia nel Bosco (2013)
- La Vita (1998)
- Liturgia Sinfonica
- Maiko Spring March
- March 'Over the Century'
- March 'Over the Wind'
- March 'The Three Tops Hill'
- March, Wind & Sun
- Meguru Kisetsu ni
- Melodies for Wind Ensemble
- Morning Songs in Hiroshima (2009)
- Mt. Fuji March (2003)
- On the March (1978/1991)
- Pacem et gloriam pro nobis
- Peace, Peace, so Sing the Birds (2018)
- Piano Concerto (Ito)
- The Planets
- Preludio Celebrativo
- Progress
- Rag-Time-March
- Rapsodia di Toyama
- Rapsodia Formosa (1992)
- Remembrance II
- Ryukuan Fantasy for Band (1997/1998/2013)
- Ryukuan Fantasy for Saxophone Quartet (1997/1999)
- The Seashell Song (2012)
- Sinfonia Singaporiana (2005)
- Solo Una Volta! (2013)
- Soma Festival March
- Soma Festival March No.2
- Sonata Classica (1996)
- Tableau
- Taiwanese Posy (2007)
- That Which He Taught Us (2015)
- That Which He Taught Us (Baritone and Band) (2015/2016)
- Time into Music (2018)
- Variations from the Northern Sea (1993)
Resources
None discovered thus far.