3 O'Clock Mix

Jonathan Newman

Subtitle: For School Ensemble

General Info

Year: 2012
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: OK Feel Good Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $68.00; (digital) - $49.00 | Score Only (print) - $19.00

Instrumentation

3 O'Clock Mix uses a flexible instrumentation. All that is required is a large ensemble of student players. While any pitched instrument may play any non-percussion part, it works best to arrange players into categories of high, mid and low-range instruments.

High, Parts One-Four. Oboes, clarinets, soprano saxophones, trumpets or violins. Parts One and Two require the ability to play slightly more complicated syncopated patterns.

Mids, Parts Five-Seven. Any combination of clarinets, English horn, alto and tenor saxophones, trumpets horns and violas.

Lows, Parts Eight-Ten. Any combination of bass clarinets, bassoons, baritone saxophones, horns, trombones, baritones, tubas, cellos and basses.

Ringers. Percussion or keyboard instruments with slow decay: including any combination of glockenspiel, crotales, tubular bells, vibraphone, handbells, harp, celesta, or piano.

Pulse. Instruments requiring no breath: including any combination of xylophone, marimba, piano, keyboard or pizzicato strings.

Percussion.
- Desk. School desk struck with drumsticks
- Chair. Plastic or wood school chair; two pitches required
- Book. Large textbook
- Chalkboard. Stuck with an eraser and drawn upon
- Bass drum/Tam-Tam

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Commissioned by the Bowling Green State University National Band Association Student Chapter, Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School, Elmwood Local Schools, and Mona Shore Middle School.

- Program Note from score

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Granite Ridge Intermediate School (Fresno, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Jose Vargas, conductor) - 15 February 2019 (2019 CASMEC Conference, Fresno)

Works for Winds by This Composer

3 O'Clock Mix (2012)
1861 (2004)
As the scent of spring rain (2003)
Avenue X (2005)
Blow It Up, Start Again (2012)
Climbing Parnassus (2008)
Concertino (flute solo, chamber winds, and piano)
Chunk
De Profundis
Moon by Night (2001)
Novel Romance (2018)
OK Feel Good
Pi’ilani and Ko’olau (2019)
The Rivers of Bowery (2005)
Single (2013)
Sowing Useful Truths
Symphony No. 1 (2009)
Tender Hearts (2019)
Uncle Sid

Resources

Jonathan Newman website Accessed 18 February 2019
Perusal score