Short Suite No. 4

Joseph Kreines

General Info

Year: 2003
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $4.95

Movements

1. Antiphon and March
2. Air
3. Dance

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 I-II, including:

Bass Drum
Bells
Crash Cymbals
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Tambourine
Triangle
Wind Chimes

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Here's a superb first suite for young bands, with short movements and varied styles. This is a wonderful medium to teach part independence in a very musical setting. The movements include: Antiphon and March, notable for its fine trumpeting lines; Air, a colorful slower movement with effective layering of sections of the band; and Dance, with its rhythmic appeal and full band scoring.

- Program Note adapted by publisher

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
Audio CD: Sebastian River High School Wind Symphony (Joseph Kreines, conductor) – 2003

State Ratings

Florida: II
North Carolina: II

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Quakertown (Penn.) Community High School Freshman Band (Frank Parker, conductor) – 5 March 2019
Sebastian (Fla.) River High School Wind Symphony (Joseph Kreines, conductor) – 17 December 2003 (2003 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by this Composer

Air and Variations (2005/2006)
Air from County Derry (as arranger)
Allegro con Brio (as transcriber) (1804-1808/)
American Song-Set
Ave Maria (as transcriber) (1882/2006)
Ave Verum Corpus (as arranger)
Concertino for Flute (as transcriber) (1902/)
Danish Folk Music Settings (as arranger) (1926-41/1950/)
Donde Lieta from "La Bohème (as arranger) (1896)
Finale from "Symphony No. 3 (as transcriber) (1850/)
Five Bagatelles (as arranger) (1943/)
Four Sea Interludes (as transcriber) (1945/2015)
Harvest Hymn (as transcriber) (1940/1983)
The Immovable Do (as editor) (1940/2006)
Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" (as transcriber) (1890)
Irish Tune from County Derry (as arranger) (1918/1996)
La Valse (as transcriber)
Lads of Wamphray March (as editor) (1905/1937)
Make Our Garden Grow (as arranger) (1956/2017)
March and Cortege of Bacchus (as transcriber) (1878/2005)
Mock Morris (as arranger) (1910/1991)
Nightingale and the Two Sisters, The (as arranger) (1931)
O Mio Babbino Caro from "Gianni Schicchi" (as arranger) (1918)
Passacaglia from the Opera "Peter Grimes" (as transcriber) (1945/2016)
Prelude to Act I of "Die Meistersinger" (as transcriber) (1862/2012)
Roman Carnival Overture (as transcriber) (1838/1844/)
Saxophone Concerto in E-Flat Major (as arranger)
Short Suite No. 4 (2003)
Suite from "Romeo and Juliet" (as arranger) (1935/199-?)
Three Songs (as arranger) (1885-1894)
Tragic Overture (as transcriber) (1880/)
Two Grainger Melodies (as transcriber) (1912/1988)
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (as transcriber; ed. Johnson) (1862)

Resources

"Joseph Kreines." Aeolus Music. Web. Accessed 3 July 2021