Shadows Unseen
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 3:50
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00; (digital) - $55.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (6 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Cabasa
- Crash Cymbals
- Hi-Hat
- Slapstick
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tenor Drum
- Triangle
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Using modified student-submitted melodic examples and ideas, this work is a uniquely collaborative piece. The mysterious sounds evoke figures of darkness that exist in the shadows around us, some of which we keep to ourselves. The music develops effectively and ends optimistically, reminding us that the shadows are small compared to the light that can create or erase them.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the Franklin Middle School Band, Champaign, Ill., Michael R. Brown, Director.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Escape Route (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- As the Robin to the Meadow (2006)
- The Capital March (as arranger) (1920/2014)
- Castles and Dragons (2005)
- Christmas Fanfares (2004)
- Clouds That Sail in Heaven (2007)
- Counterbalance (2013)
- Critical Mass (2010)
- Cut to the Chase (2012)
- The Dragon's Lair (2008)
- Dynamo (2015)
- Écossaise for Military Band (as arranger)
- Escape Route (2020)
- Escape Route (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Fighting Falcon March (2006)
- Gather Ye Rosebuds (2019)
- Glen Crossing (2010)
- Ignition (2011)
- In tantum lux (2016)
- Knox Bridge Jubilee (2018)
- Lightning! (2004)
- Loco Motion (2015)
- Longthorpe Tower (2019)
- March, Opus 108 (as arranger) (1841/2011)
- Mechanism (2014)
- My Soul a Canvas (2019)
- Noel! (2010)
- Poème (2007)
- Quasars (2009)
- Rampage! (2009)
- Rephrygeration (2016)
- Scramble (2012)
- Shadows Unseen (2017)
- Shady Grove (2011)
- Sketches on a Kentucky Hymn Tune (2005)
- Three Welsh Songs (2013)
- Then I Saw the Lucent Sky (2008)
- Trumpets of Symphony Hall (2012)
- Two Renaissance Sketches (2009)
- Vier Deutsche Weihnachtslieder (as arranger)
- Whirlybird (2013)
- Wildflowers (2018)
- With Uncommon Valor (2017)
Resources
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 72/5 (December 2017), p. 39.
- Perusal score