Time to Take Back the Knights!

Stephen Melillo

Subtitle: The Chosen

General Info

Year: 1999
Duration: c. 8:15
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stormworks
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $150.00; (digital) - $135.00 | Score Only (print) - $40.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass 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
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
PAD Bass
Piano
Harp
Timpani
Percussion, including:

Bass Drum
Chimes
Claves
Congas
Crash Cymbals
Finger Cymbals
Orchestra Bells
Ride Cymbal
Snare Drum (Piccolo)
Suspended Cymbal
Tam-Tam (large)
Triangle
Wind Chimes

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Time to Take Back the Knights! ... or as titled by conductor Maurice Hamers, The Chosen!, appears on the STORMWORKS... Chapter THREE CD. What makes this piece challenging is the interplay of component forces, and the need to move seamlessly between, and sometimes merge differing styles of music. The piece begins with a bluesy, airy sax solo, reminiscent of Harlem Nocturne. But when the brass come in, we are in a world of Tchaikovsky-like military calls mixed with jazz. The varied ghost-like voices of knights distant and past call to us in these brass figures.

Contrasting sections depict a blending of Americana with Middle Eastern, with serenity and triumphal nobility.

Commissioned by the Rancho Buena Vista High School Wind Ensemble, Mr. Larry R. White, conductor. Dedicated to those parents, family and friends who in the noble support and promotion of school music programs throughout this country and the world, inspire the next generation of heroes ... by being heroes themselves.

- Program Note from score

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy
Audio CD: Lakota West Symphonic Winds (Gregory Snyder, conductor) – 2000

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Adelaide Wind Orchestra (David Polain, conductor) – 1 October 2915
Lakota West Symphonic Winds (West Chester, Ohio) (Gregory Snyder, conductor) – 21 December 2000 (2000 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by this Composer

America the Brave (1981)
Aurora (1998)
Ben Hur (as arranger) (1959/2008)
Concerto for Violin and Band (2000)
David (1995)
The Defenders of Truefire! (1996)
Escape from Plato's Cave (1993)
Festival of Light! (1995)
Finest Hour! (2000)
Forbidden Fortress (1997)
Giving!
Godspeed! (1997)
HAJJ (2000)
Honor, Courage...Commitment (1996/1998)
I Shall Hear in Heaven
In a Cause Called "Glorious" (2001)
In the Beginning (1992)
Millennium (1997)
O Come Holy Night! (1993)
Once More Unto the Breach (2004)
The Shoemaker (1999/2006)
The Speech of Angels (1998)
Stormworks
Three Musical Haikus for Band (1984)
Time to Take Back the Knights! (1999)
Triumph at CHO-SIN! (1996)
Under the Cover of Night ... Into the Light of Day! (1993)
The Universe Below
A Walk in Jurassic Park. See: In the Beginning
Without Warning (1996)
WU (2008)

Resources

Melillo, S. (1999). Time to Take Back the Knights [score]. S. Melillo: [Smithfield, Va.]
Perusal score