Stomp Igor

From Wind Repertory Project
Robert Patterson

Robert Patterson


General Info

Year: 1998
Duration: c. 8:45
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Great River Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00   |   Score Only (print) – Free


Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Bongos
  • Castanets
  • Claves
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Dumbeg, large
  • Glockenspiel
  • Marimba
  • Metal Slab
  • Ratchet
  • Tam-Tam, large
  • Tom-Tom, 3
  • Trap Set
  • Wood Block
  • Xylophone


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

For Sue Creasap and the Band of the Mountains at Morehead State University.

- Program Note from score


Stomp Igor is an attempt to expunge Igor Stravinsky’s style from my music, paradoxically by deliberately stealing from him. Snatches of Rite of Spring and Petroushka provided an opportunity to seek imaginative counterparts for Stravinsky’s orchestrations within the palette of a wind band. Hopefully the wind palette and the somewhat irreverent settings cause the excerpts to be heard in a fresh way. This seems only fair, given Stravinsky’s penchant for tinkering with his own forebears.

The conflict between my style and Stravinsky’s is most overt as two different direct quotations from the Rite of Spring engulf and overwhelm a gradually building texture with a quasi-salsa beat. I imagine the quotes as a sudden movie shot of Godzilla’s jaws snapping menacingly while the world falls apart at his feet. A few bars later the brass (led by the trombones) arrive like St. George and banish Stravinsky forever to his own music -- or at least out of my music. Of course, the hero’s music suspiciously resembles Shostakovich, but we’ll slay that dragon another day.

- Program Note by composer


Media


State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer


Resources

  • Byrd, Josh. "Stomp Igor." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 1015-1023. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2015.
  • Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Robert G. Patterson." Accessed 8 March 2017
  • Patterson, R. (1998). Stomp Igor: For Symphonic Wind Band [score]. Great River Music: Memphis, Tenn.
  • Perusal score