Train Heading West and Other Outdoor Scenes
General Info
Year: 1998
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manhattan Beach Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $105.00 | Score Only - $15.00
Movements
1. Prairie Ritual
2. Rain on the Mountains
3. Train Heading West
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
Bass Clarinet (Bassoon )
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone/Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Timpani
- Tom-tom
- Maracas
- Crash cymbals
- Xylophone
- Tambourine
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Triangle
- Suspended cymbals
- Snare drum
- Train whistle (opt.)
Errata
Flute (part only; the score is itself correct): Mvt. 2, m. 24, last note: E, not D
Program Notes
Each of the movements, Prairie Ritual; Rain On The Mountains and Train Heading West, has a unique, descriptive character with interesting compositional techniques to create the mood.
-Program Note from publisher
Begun in the mid-1970's as a set of three sketches for beginning band, the present work was expanded, rescored, and revised in early 1997. Although the difficulty level is somewhat higher in the revised score, the work still represents an opportunity for entry-level bands to become engaged in the concept of programmatic-descriptive music in a setting that makes limited technical demands upon the players.
The expressive demands are considerable, however, and the conductor and players will profit from careful study of the work's language and its compositional procedures.
The evocation of the great outdoors has always been a tradition in twentieth-century American music, with perhaps the best examples found in the music of Aaron Copland, particularly his great ballet score, Billy the Kid. The use of open intervals, sparse scoring, and powerful elemental tunes has become familiar, not only in symphonic music and band music, but also in film scoring.
-Program Note by composer, 27 May 1998
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class D
- Indiana: ISSMA JUNIOR BAND GROUP II
- Louisiana: I
- Michigan: Junior High C
- North Carolina: II
- South Carolina: II
- Wisconsin: Event 3000 Concert Band Class M
- West Virginia: II
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Halifax Intermediate Band (Barb Hopkin, conductor) - 25 May 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
- America Verses (1997)
- Bartok Variations (as arranger) (2003)
- Blue Alien Accumulation (2003)
- Blue Goose Rag (as arranger) (1916/1986)
- Burlesco for Band (2006)
- Charlotte Doyle's Voyage
- The Child and the Kings (1995)
- Children and Gentlemen (as arranger) (2010)
- Climbing Eagle Mountain (2009)
- Concert Piece for Trumpet and Band
- Concerto for Marimba
- Deep River (as arranger) (2006)
- Dreams and Fancies (1988)
- Dreams of the Blue River (2009)
- El Jardin de Esperanza (2008)
- Enumeration of the Actual
- Fable and Folk Tale (2005)
- Falling Water (2015)
- Forest Green (as arranger) (2007)
- Four Breton Dances (2007)
- Four in One (2015)
- Geneva (2006)
- Geography of the Dream (2001)
- Green Passacaglia (2005)
- Greensleeves (as arranger)
- Grizzly Bear Rag (1994)
- The Headless Horseman (1973/1980)
- Jody
- Kum Ba Yah (2004)
- Mysterian Landscapes (2001)
- No Sun, No Shadow, Elegy for Charles Mingus
- Old Welsh Reverie (2009)
- Partita for Band (2017)
- Peace Song (1990)
- Pilgrim Traveler (2005)
- Prelude and Fughetta (2005)
- Procession and Torch Dance (1999)
- Rhythm Games: The Waukesha Rondo (2010)
- Rhythm Machine (1986)
- Scale Plus Line (2009)
- Seneca Variations (2015)
- Serenade
- Serenata
- Sinfonia III: Hymns and Dances (1972/2009)
- Sinfonia IV: Suite for Winds and Percussion
- Sinfonia V: Symphonia Sacra et Profana (1990)
- Sinfonia VI: The Four Elements (1982)
- Sinfonia XII: Southern Heart, Sacred Harp
- Sinfonia XIII: Storm Variations
- Sinfonia XIV: Three Canzonas
- Sinfonia XV: Ursa Major
- Sinfonia XVI: Transcendental Vienna (1995)
- Sinfonia XVII: The Four Winds
- Sinfonia XVIII: Aurora (2009)
- Sinfonia XIX: Preludes and Grounds
- Sinfonia XXI (2000)
- Slow March with Celebration
- Sonata for Wind Band (1994)
- Song and Variations (2001)
- Southern Suite
- Streets and Inroads (1975/1980/1996)
- Surfboard Blues
- The Tango Disappearing (2010)
- Theme and Variations (1995)
- Three Pieces for American Band, Set I (1974)
- Three Pieces for American Band, Set II (1982)
- Three Preludes (as arranger)
- Three Scenes (2010)
- Toccata for Band (2015)
- Train Heading West and Other Outdoor Scenes (1998)
- The Water Is Wide, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Wicked Story (2008)
- Yuletide Dances
Resources
- Broege, T. (1998). Train Heading West and Other Outdoor Scenes [score]. Manhattan Beach Music: Brooklyn, N.Y.