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What Goes in the Night
Contents
General Info
Year: 2000
Duration: c. 5:40
Difficulty: III+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Musica Propria
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $80.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
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
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cabasa
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Gong
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A multitude of colors present themselves in What Goes in the Night, a both entertaining and challenging piece. The opportunity for expression is coupled with rhythmic intensity as the composer sets the stage with a somber, pulsating beginning, followed by an ever-intensifying pace to an exciting climax. Percussion enjoys an important role in adding subtlety to some passages and strength to others. Particular attention to the staccato of dotted eighth/sixteenth figures will help make that recurring motif speak clearly and add to the tension.
Under the cover of darkness, life goes on.
Sleep, work, passion, mischief, murder and mayhem.
Actually, the same things that go on during the day.
Yet, wrapped in a blanket of mystery and shadows
there is a certain power, a secretive nature that blurs the lines
between what is and what isn’t.
A trivial problem in the daytime becomes a tragic epic at night.
Love, seems more personal, almost magical. Work . . . endless.
Trouble has a cloak and Danger lurks behind every shadow.
Beauty. The moon and the stars.
Casting their light, hope and a promise of what could be.
A new day will come. Eventually.
But first, we must all deal with the night.
These notes, as well as the music, were written under the cover of darkness. While creating them both, I heard many "bumps" in the night. I investigated most of them. All but three made it into the music.
- Program Note by composer
Composed for the Quail Valley Middle School Honors Band, Missouri City, Texas, Greg Countryman, Director, The 54th Annual Midwest Clinic, Chicago, Illinois, 2000
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP II
- Louisiana: III
- Tennessee: III
- Texas: III. Complete
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Fredericksburg (Tx.) High School Symphonic Band (Jason Younts, conductor) – 2 April 2018
- Plano (Tx.) East High School Concert Band – 24 May 2011
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Af-free-kah! (2013)
- All Good Things
- All Through the Night (as arranger) (2011)
- Always (2019)
- Amaranthine
- Appalachian Portrait (2017)
- The Ash Grove (2019)
- Away in a Manger (as arranger)
- Before the Sun (2013)
- The Bench by the Sea (2017)
- Bonsai Tree, The (2010)
- Bookmarks from Japan (2013)
- Boston Liberties
- Carnaval! (2013)
- Chorale for Wind Band and Melodic Percussion (as arranger)
- Christmas and Sousa Forever (as arranger)
- Christmas Toons (2012)
- Christmas with Mozart (2007)
- Circus Franticus (2001)
- Cordoba (2013)
- Crown of Thorns (1998)
- Culloden I and II (2000)
- Culloden III (2000)
- Crown of Thorns
- Dragon Sky (2015)
- Dream Dancer
- The Elements
- Empire
- Fantasy in French (2012)
- Fields of Gold (2019)
- The First Noel (as arranger)
- Fort McHenry Suite (2000)
- Glenbury Grove (2009)
- Glorious Light
- The Grace in Being (2013)
- Greatest Generation, The
- Hands of Mercy
- HardDrive
- Hark! Those Bells Are Smokin’ (2011)
- HearthStone, The (2016)
- Husaria Cavalry Overture (2006)
- Hymn for the Innocent (2016)
- I Got Rhythm for Christmas
- Il Burlone
- I'll Be Home A'fore Ye
- Imbizo (2007)
- Impressions (2013)
- In My Father's Eyes (2017)
- In the Bleak Midwinter (as arranger) (1906/2018)
- Incantations
- Italian Rhapsody (2005)
- Jerusalem (as arranger)
- Jingle Them Bells (as arranger) (1857/2011)
- Journey Through Orion (2006)
- Just Flyin'! (2015)
- Kalanu
- Khan (2008)
- La Mezquita de Córdoba (2005)
- Let Your Spirit Sing
- Little Drummer Boy's Bolero, The
- Louisiana Parish Sketches (2001)
- Mambo Perro Loco (2008)
- March of the Sun Dried Tomatoes (2000)
- Medalist Fanfare (2013)
- Moonshine: See Shine
- Movin' On Down the Line
- My Soul to Keep (2019)
- Mystery on Mena Mountain (1985)
- Nature of the Beast, The
- No Finer Calling (2006)
- No Man's Land (2017)
- Nothing That Is (2000)
- Nutcracker Fantasia (2012)
- O Holy Night (arr. Giroux) (1847/2011)
- Of Blood and Stone (2015)
- One Life Beautiful (2010)
- One Torch, Two Women, Three Ships and Men Rejoicing (2011)
- Opa! (2018)
- Ouachita (1987)
- Our Cast Aways (2018)
- Overture in Five Flat (2010)
- Paprikash (2014)
- Peter Patapan (2011)
- Poseidon
- Primality!
- Radiant Shadows (2016)
- Riften Wed (2013)
- Shadow Falls
- Shine (2017)
- Space Symphony (1986/1991)
- Speed of Heat, The
- Stealing Home (2016)
- Stocking Full of Composers, A (2009)
- Symphony No. 5 (2017)
- Symphony of Fables, A (2006)
- Taboo for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble
- Three Fanfares (2003)
- Three Wise Guys (2011)
- Tiger Tail March (2000)
- A Time to Dance
- To Walk with Wings (2000)
- Twelve Days of Christmas, The (Giroux)
- The Twelve Gallon Hat (2013)
- Under the Willow (2015)
- A Very Merry Heart and Soul
- Vigils Keep (2005)
- Vortex (2015)
- Wagon Trail
- West Wind Overture (2012)
- What Child Is That Playing Carol of the Bells? (as arranger) (2011)
- What Goes in the Night (2000)
- When Country Comes to Town
- Where the Red Fern Grows (2016)
- Wild West Overture
- Without You
- Wolves in Moonlight (2019)
- Zephyr, Chorale and Dance (2012)
Resources
- Giroux, J. (2000). What Goes in the Night: Concert Band [score]. Musica Propria: San Antonio, Tx.
