Starfire Fanfare

Randall Standridge

Randall Standridge

Subtitle: FLEX BAND: For Adaptable Instrumentation

General Info

Year: 2020
Duration: c. 1:40
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Randall Standridge
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00; (digital) - $50.00

Instrumentation (Flexible)

Full Score
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Piano (optional)
Timpani (optional)
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

• Bass Drum
• Crash Cymbal (optional)
• Drum Set (optional)
• Snare Drum
• Tambourine (optional)
• Tam-Tam (optional)
• Wind Chimes (wind chimes)
• Wood Block

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Recently, at the Texas Music Educators Association convention, I had an interesting conversation with a director. She said that she wished there was more beginning band repertoire that taught 6/8, and that most of what she had found was too hard. I put this conversation in the back of my brain and let it cook for a while. It occurred to me that the reason most young musicians struggle with 6/8 is that most pieces introduce ALL iterations of 6/8 rhythms (or a least, quite a few) immediately with no middle step. Therefore, I decided to write a piece that would use no more than five iterations of 6/8 time but still be a fun concert work. The result was Starfire Fanfare.

Starfire Fanfare is intended to evoke the feel and sound of cinematic scores for space opera films and games, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, and others. The 6/8 time gives the music a feeling of adventure and boldness that is particular to that meter. The orchestration of the work was designed to simultaneously double lines to increase the confidence of young musicians, but to still have color-specific moments to sound more mature than the typical developing band work.

Starfire Fanfare is the first in a series of works that will comprise a larger piece entitled The Galactic Empire, all for Grade 1 ensembles, depicting my own “space opera” for young band.

I hope you and your performers enjoy your trip into the world of 6/8 and into the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

Peace, Love, and Music

- Program Note by composer

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. MIDI realization

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

• Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
• Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Circuit Breaker (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
• Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Fanfare for the 16th Empire (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Groovy-8 (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Hillside March (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Kinetic Dances (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2021)
• The Lake of Sorrows (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Mechanical Monsters (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Metrodance (Reduced instrumentation) (2012/2021)
• Pacifica (Reduced instrumentation) (2019/2021)
• Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Shadow Cove March (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Siege (Reduced instrumentation) (2020/2021)
• Snake Charmer (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
• Spero (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)

All Wind Works

• Adrenaline Engines (2010)
• Affirmation (2021)
• Afterburn (2009)
• Aggressivo (2013)
• Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
• Alarm (2019)
• Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Angelic Celebrations (2014)
• Argentum (2015)
• Armory (2015)
• Art(isms)
  • Pointallism
  • Surrealism
  • Abstract Expressionism
• Battlesong (2012)
• Bazaar (2017)
• Bees. See: The Garden Suite
• Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• The Black Cat (2021)
• Blue Sky Horizon (2022)
• The Boom Boom Galop (2017)
• Brave Spirit (2015)
• Brighton Camp March (2012)
• Buffalo Island March
• C-141 Starlifter (2015)
• A Carmen Christmas (as arranger) (2015)
• Celebration (2016)
• Celebration Tribalesque (2011)
• Celebrations for Christmas (as arranger) (2020)
• Cha'la (2018)
• Choose Joy (2022)
• A Christmas Bell Carol (as arranger) (2018)
• A Christmas Carol (2022)
• A Christmas Fanfare (2011)
• A Christmas Flourish (2017)
• A Christmas Gathering (2022)
• A Christmas Tale (2016)
• Christmas Village (2021)
• Christmas at the Circus (as arranger) (2014)
• Circuit Breaker (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• The Clapping Song (2022)
• Columbia (2022)
• Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (2014)
• Companion of My Voice (2015)
• Creer (2021)
• Dancing Lights (2020)
• Danse Bohémien (2010)
• Danse Carnivale (2013)
• Dark Ride (2018)
• Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Darklands Symphony
  • Darklands March (2014)
  • Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
  • Darklands Legends (2017)
  • DarkHeart (2016)
• Daybreak March
• Deus Ex Machina (2019)
• Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• Dominion (2021)
• The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
• El Zorro Rojo (2019)
• Extremis (2015)
• Fanfare for the 16th Empire (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Fantasia on a Theme of Camille Saint Saens (2022)
• A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Fiat Lux (2021)
• Fields of Clover (2000/2005)
• Flowers. See: The Garden Suite
• Folk Suite for Beginning Band
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2020)
• Four (2017)
• Fragile (2022)
• Frogs. See: The Garden Suite
• Gadget (2012)
• Galactic Fanfare (2018)
• Gallowglass (2021)
• The Garden Suite (2018-2020)
  • Frogs (2018)
  • March of the Arachnids (2019)
  • Flowers (2020)
  • Bees (2020)
• Gently Blows the Summer Wind (2008)
• Gestures (2019)
• A Ghost Story. See: Symphony No. 1
• Grace (2007)
• Groovy-8 (2021)
• Groovy-8 (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Half-Past One
• Half-Past Two (2016)
• Havana Nights (2020)
• Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Her Majesty's Brigade (2011)
• High Voltage (2017)
• Hillside March (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• A Holiday Galop (as arranger) (2013)
• Imaginarium (2015)
• Impact (2018)
• In Endless Song (2014)
• In Late November (2009)
• In Paths of Truth and Grace (2015)
• In Quiet Hours (2019)
• In Simple Faith (as arranger) (2018)
• In These Last Days of Autumn (2016)
• In the Court of the King (2013)
• Iron and Ice (2017)
• IronHeart (2014)
• The Joyful Rose of Winter (as arranger) (2018)
• A Joyous Christmas (2015)
• Kinetic Dances (2015)
• Kinetic Dances (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2021)
• The Lake of Sorrows. See: Tales from the Darklands
• Legacy Overture (2019)
• Life's Railway (2018)
• Little Suite for Band (2014)
• Lullabye (Waltz for Band) (2009)
• Lux Spiritus (2018)
• A Maid of Bedlam (as arranger) (2020)
• March of the Arachnids. See: The Garden Suite
• March of the Winter Elves (2016)
• March Wunderbar (2022)
• Marzo Zingaro (2017)
• Mechanical Monsters (2021)
• Mechanical Monsters (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Metalheads (2016)
• Metrodance (2012)
• Metrodance (Reduced instrumentation) (2012/2021)
• Morpheus (2016)
• Nebula (2021)
• New Era Fanfare (2013)
• The Nine (2018)
• (Not) Alone (2022)
• Ode to Joy
• Of Monsters and Men (2019)
• On a Catalonian Carol (as arranger) (2016)
• On an Olde English Carol (as arranger) (2021)
• Pacifica (2019)
• Pacifica (Reduced instrumentation) (2019/2021)
• Pandora (2007)
• The Photo Album (2020)
• Portent (2008)
• A Prayer Before Nightfall
• Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Providence (2021)
• Pulse (2014)
• Rage (2011)
• The Rains of Scarborough Fair (as arranger) (2017)
• Relentless (2016)
• Ridge Spirit Fanfare
• A Rollicking Hannukah (2018)
• The Rowan Tree (as arranger) (2010)
• Ruckus (2014)
• Santa the Barbarian (2021)
• Shadow Cove March (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Siege (2020)
• Siege (Reduced instrumentation) (2020/2021)
• Skygazer Fanfare (2015)
• Snake Charmer (2009)
• Snake Charmer (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
• Snow Angels (2014/2017)
• The Soft-Shoe Rag (2012)
• Spero (2021)
• Spero (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Spring (2021)
• Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Steel (2011)
• Still, Still, Still (as arranger) (2011)
• Stonewall: 1969 (2019)
• Sultana: 1865 (2020)
• Summer Song (2016)
• Symphony No. 1
• Taiko (2020)
• Tales from the Darklands
  • The Lake of Sorrows (2021)
  • The Lake of Sorrows (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
• Taiko (2020)
• Tanchōzuru (2016)
• That Old Hound Dog Rag (2009)
• Thrash (2019)
• Tiger: The Shadow Hunter (2018)
• Timepiece (2015)
• To Horizons Unseen (2019)
• Tomorrow's Celebration (2013)
• Too Much Percussion!
• Towercrest March
• unBroken (2021)
• Undecim (2015)
• Under the Cherry Blossoms (2018)
• Union Street March
• Utopia (2021)
• Vanishing Point (2019)
• Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Venom (2017)
• Victory Parade March
• Warriors of the 16th Empire (2022)
• We Wish You a Scary Christmas! (2020)
• The Western Journey (2020)
• When Summer's in the Meadow (as arranger) (2019)
• When the Spring Rain Begins to Fall (2013)
• Where Words End... (2019)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Winds of Change (2016)
• The Witching Hour (2014)
• With Every Winter's Breath (2012)
• Wolverine Summer (2018)
• A Yuletide Festival (2012)
• Zooveniers (2011)

Resources

• Creative Repertoire Initiative
• Perusal score
• Randall Standridge website Accessed 3 July 2020