Symphony for Band (Washburn)
General Info
Year: 1959 / 1967 / 1991
Duration: c. 17:45
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Edition Peters
Cost: Score and Parts – Rental.
Movements
1. Andante – allegro moderato – 6:30
2. Adagio non tanto – 5:55
3. Allegro ritmico – 5:15
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-VI
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-XII
E-flat Alto Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet I-II
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-IX
B-flat Trumpet I-VI
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-VII
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bells
- Field Drum
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This three-movement symphony [composed 1959, premiered 1964, published 1967] was dedicated to Willard Musser and the Crane Wind Ensemble. The first movement presents fragments of several theme in the slow introduction which later become fully present, expanded and combined in various contrapunctal manipulations. The second movement is in a large ABA design with a number of solo passages for the winds. The final movement employs asymmetric rhythmic groupings to some extent and again uses several contrapunctal devices to combine the various melodic and harmonic aspects of the movement.
- Program Note from Program Notes for Band
Symphony for Band is characteristic of Washburn's compositional style and can be fairly described as a neo-classical composition encompassing a twentieth-century reworking of the symphonic form. Some of Washburn's characteristic techniques found in the symphony include bitonality, quartal and quintal harmony, cluster chords, use of canon and fugue, simultaneous recapitulation, and modal writing.
- Program Note from Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Keystone Wind Ensemble (Jack Stamp,conductor) - 2010
State Ratings
- Arkansas: V
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
- Kansas: IV
- Louisiana: IV
- Tennessee: VI
- Virginia: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adirondack Excursion
- Brevard Overture
- Burlesk for Band
- Burlesk for Band II
- Ceremonial Music (Washburn)
- Chorale and Variants (Washburn)
- Climb to Glory - March for the 10th Mountain Division
- Concertino for Brass and Woodwind Quintets (Washburn) (1965)
- Connecticut Valley Festival Overture
- Crown and Scepter
- Epigon IV
- Fantasia on God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Washburn)
- Far Eastern Fantasy
- Hanukkah Holiday (Washburn)
- Hoosier Holiday
- Impressions of Cairo
- Intrada, Chorale and Toccata (Washburn) (1970)
- Kilimanjaro - An African Portrait (1993)
- March and Chorale (Washburn)
- March and Chorale II (Washburn)
- Marche Dynamique
- March, Opus '76 (1976)
- Martinique: Beguine for Band
- Ode for Band (Washburn)
- Ode for Band II (Washburn)
- Overture: Elkhart
- Overture: Sunmount (1970)
- Overture for a New Millenium
- Pageant Royale
- Pageantry (Washburn)
- Pageantry II (Washburn)
- Partita (1964)
- Partita II (Washburn)
- Prelude and Paragrams
- St Patrick's Parade
- Saturn V
- Song of Krishna
- Suite for Band (Washburn)
- Symphony for Band (1967)
- Temple of the Nile
- Three Diversions for Band (Washburn)
- Tidewater Festival Overture
- Toccatarantella
- Tower Bridge
- Trigon
- Variations on a Christmas Tune (Washburn)
Resources
- Kitelinger, Shannon. "Symphony for Band." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 9, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 800-808. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2013.
- Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 627.
- Washburn, R. (1967). Symphony for Band [score]. Oxford University Press: New York.
- Zembower, Christian. “Robert Washburn's Symphony for Band: A History and Analysis.” Journal of Band Research. Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring 2013). Web. Accessed 5 September 2017