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Snarl
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: II+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Osti Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $119.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
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
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Assorted Cymbals
- Assorted Percussion
- Bass Drum
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In March 2016, I attended a rehearsal featuring students from the United Sound mentoring program -- a program to encourage musicians with special needs to play side by side with general education musicians in the same ensemble. The empathy I experienced in that room was overwhelming. I cried, regained my composure, and asked if I could write a piece for United Sound. The result is Snarl.
Everyone gets picked on at some point -- I know I did, especially in gym class. It’s a horrible feeling. Snarl refuses to be bullied, from the opening saxophone section multiphonic, to the flutter-tongued winds and the crashes of cymbals.
Snarl is a gift to United Sound in thanks for making those mentored students feel not only special, but strong.
- Program Note by composer
Snarl adds to the growing amount of repertoire composed in responses to social and/or cultural issues. The piece reaches out to a typically unrepresented population in the concert band: those students with disabilities. Not only does the piece reflect the experience of being bullied, a common experience for students with disabilities, but it welcomes them into the ensemble.
- Program Note from Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 12
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Patrick Henry High School (Roanoke, Va.) Wind Symphony (Alexander Schmitt, conductor) - 20 December 2022
- University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) White Concert Band (Jamal Duncan, conductor) – 4 March 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Antique Violences (2017)
- Asphalt Cocktail (2009)
- Aurora Awakes (2009)
- Clocking (2007)
- Concerto for Soprano Sax and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Damn (1998)
- A deep reverberation fills with stars (2022)
- Divine Mischief (2022)
- Drum Music: Concerto for Percussion (2011)
- Fanfare for Full Fathom Five (2015)
- Foundry (2011)
- The Frozen Cathedral (2012)
- Harvest: Concerto for Trombone (2009)
- High Wire (2012)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (2010)
- Hymn to a Blue Hour (arr. Wallace) (2010/2021)
- Kingfishers Catch Fire (2007)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (2020/2021)
- Let Me Be Frank with You (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Lightning Field (2015)
- Liminal (2016)
- Mom Song
- The Night Garden (2017)
- Night on Fire. See: The Soul Has Many Motions
- Places we can no longer go (2018)
- (redacted) (2013)
- Redline Tango (2004)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (2017/2018)
- The Rumor of a Secret King (arr. Blegen) (2017/2018/2020)
- Sacred Spaces (2019)
- Sasparilla (2005)
- Sheltering Sky (2012)
- Sheltering Sky (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Dunnigan) (2012/2020)
- Snarl (2018)
- Some treasures are heavy with human tears (2021)
- Songs from the End of the World (2015)
- The Soul Has Many Motions (2013)
- Night on Fire (2013)
- Night on Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2013/2021)
- Strange Humors (2006)
- Strange Humors (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
- Strange Humors (saxophone ensemble) (2006/2021)
- This Cruel Moon (2014/2017)
- This Cruel Moon (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Turbine (2006)
- Turning (2007)
- Undertow (2008)
- Until the Scars (2014/2019)
- Wine-Dark Sea (2014)
- Xerxes (2010)
Resources
- Perusal Score
- Prendergast, Curran. "Snarl." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 12, Compiled and edited by Andrew Trachsel, 278-282. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2021.