Whirling Novas
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 1:50
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) -$40.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Concert Tom
- Crash Cymbals
- Sleigh Bells
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Whirling Novas imagines a flight through interstellar space into the heart of a nebula. Within the nebula, dust and gas spin and collide to form planets and stars.
- Program Note from score
Buckle up for a flight into the turbulent heart of a nebula! Booming percussion and sparkling woodwind lines conjure images of celestial bodies spinning and crashing together in the chaos of an interstellar star factory.
- Program Note adapted from Cockrill Middle School Honors Band concert program, 14 December 2016
Media
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Capital University New Concert Band Reading Clinic (Kent White, conductor)
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class D
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Cockrill Middle School (McKinney, Texas) Honors Band (Matthew Harp, conductor) - 14 December 2016 (2016 Midwest Clinic)
- Roosevelt Middle School 6th Grade Band (Monticello, Ind.) – Spring 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Across the Serengeti (2016)
- And Sail Away (2017)
- Bold
- Bravado Tango (2015)
- Cassini's Dive (2021)
- Christus Factus Est (as transcriber) (1884/2018)
- Circle of Wagons (2013)
- Come Down Rain (2018)
- Crowns of Glory (2020)
- Dance Slav (2018)
- Everybody Sang (2019)
- Foiled Again! (2014)
- The Jester's Galop (2023)
- Laniakea (2016)
- Leading Light (2022)
- Legacy Fanfare (2016)
- Liber Illuminare (2023)
- Monumental Triumph
- Moon Over Half Dome (2019/2021)
- On the Kerry Shore (2017)
- On the Wing (2014)
- Palo Duro Sunrise (2015)
- Passage of Arms (2013)
- Queen Anne’s Revenge (2013)
- Ripple Effect (2023)
- Ruins of Tulum (2013)
- Scenes from the American West (2018)
- Solstice Dance (2015)
- The Spirit of Cashel (2019)
- Spellbound (2016)
- A Swashbuckling Christmas (2017)
- Symphony No.1 (2022)
- ¡Viva! (2017)
- Wellspring (2020)
- Whirling Novas (2015)
Resources
- Jack Wilds Music Accessed 2 August 2021
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist 71.1 (2016): 40. Print
- Perusal score