Second Suite for Band (McBeth)
General Info
Year: 1961
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Southern Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $139.95 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Movements
1. Gigue – 1:50
2. Dirge – 1:55
3. Entry – 1:40
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Tenor Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Second Site for Band was written for the Camden, Arkansas, High School band. It is in three movements. Each designated to express a form of physical motion, as in Gigue, Dirge and Entry. The Gigue should be performed in a joyous mood of the dance, with the Dirge in the somber contrast of a funeral march. The Entry should be approached as any ceremonial processional.
- Program Note from score
Media
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State Ratings
- Alabama: Class BB
- Arkansas: III
- Florida: IV
- Georgia: IV
- Kansas: III
- Louisiana: III
- Maryland: IV
- Tennessee: IV
- Tennessee: V
- Texas: III. Complete
- Virginia: V
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- FBHS Band – 11 February 1966
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Battaglia (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Barber) (1967/2021)
All Wind Works
- Air and Dance (2005)
- Annabel Lee (2004)
- Battaglia (1967)
- Battaglia (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Barber) (1967/2021)
- Beowulf (1966)
- Caccia (1980)
- Canticle (1969)
- Cantique and Faranade (1967)
- Canto (1977)
- Capriccio Concertant (1976)
- Cavata (1959/1981)
- Chant and Jubilo (1963)
- Chase (2006)
- The Coventry (2003)
- Daniel in the Lion's Den (1991/1994)
- Divergents
- Drammatico (1970)
- Drayton Hall Esprit (1992)
- The Dream Catcher (1997)
- Estampie (2000)
- The Feast of Trumpets (!982)
- Festive Centennial (1974)
- The Fifth Trumpeter (1989)
- Flourishes (1982)
- Grace Praeludium (1982)
- Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" (as arranger) (1893/1984)
- It is Well
- Joyant Narrative (1966)
- Kaddish (1976)
- Keltic Dances (2004)
- Lauds and Tropes (1997)
- The Lions of North Bridge (2000)
- Masque (1968)
- Mosaic (!964)
- Of Sailors and Whales (1989)
- Praises (1984)
- Reflections Past (1965)
- The Sacred Flame
- Scaramouche (2002)
- The Sea Treaders (1996)
- Second Suite for Band (1961)
- The Seventh Seal (1972)
- Third Movement from "Symphony No. 2" (Hanson) (as arranger) (1930/1983)
- Symphonic Dance No. 1, "Comanche Ritual" (as transcriber) (1965/2013)
- They Hung Their Harps in the Willows (1988)
- This Land of El Dorado (1993)
- Through Countless Halls of Air (1995)
- To Be Fed By Ravens (1975)
- To the Unknowns (1987)
- When Honor Whispers and Shouts (1998)
- When Rossi Strikes
- Wine From These Grapes (1992)
- With Sounding Trumpets (1987)
Resources
- McBeth. W. (1961). Second Suite for Band [score]. Southern Music: San Antonio, Tx.