Air and Variations
General Info
Year: 2005 / 2006
Duration: c. 3:15
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $58.00; (digital) - $58.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
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
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (4 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Air and Variations was composed in June of 2005. It is designed to expose students to the “theme and variation” compositional form through the use of contrasting styles, tempi and meters. The work opens with a statement of the theme, which is presented by flute, clarinet and trumpet in a legato, lyrical style. Variation 1 provides a rhythmic version of the theme in a toccata that features marcato eighth notes. Variation 2 is a romance that presents the theme in a slow, expressive setting. Variation 3 is a gently lilting waltz in which the theme appears once again in the flute and trumpet parts. Variation 4 is a stately, triumphant processional-style march which concludes the work.
Written and dedicated to Laura Singletary for her dedication to music education and devotion to her students.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Lincoln High School Symphonic Winds (Joseph Kreines, conductor) - 2005
State Ratings
- Louisiana: II
- Michigan: Junior High C
- Texas: II. Complete
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Lincoln High School (Tallahassee, Fla.) Symphonic Winds (Joseph Kreines, conductor) – 15 December 2005 (2005 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Air and Variations (2005/2006)
- Air from County Derry (as arranger)
- Allegro con Brio (as transcriber) (1804-1808/)
- American Song-Set
- Ave Maria (as transcriber) (1882/2006)
- Ave Verum Corpus (as arranger)
- Concertino for Flute (as transcriber) (1902/)
- Danish Folk Music Settings (as arranger) (1926-41/1950/)
- Donde Lieta from "La Bohème (as arranger) (1896)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 3 (as transcriber) (1850/)
- Five Bagatelles (as arranger) (1943/)
- Four Sea Interludes (as transcriber) (1945/2015)
- Harvest Hymn (as transcriber) (1940/1983)
- The Immovable Do (as editor) (1940/2006)
- Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" (as transcriber) (1890)
- Irish Tune from County Derry (as arranger) (1918/1996)
- La Valse (as transcriber)
- Lads of Wamphray March (as editor) (1905/1937)
- Make Our Garden Grow (as arranger) (1956/2017)
- March and Cortege of Bacchus (as transcriber) (1878/2005)
- Mock Morris (as arranger) (1910/1991)
- Nightingale and the Two Sisters, The (as arranger) (1931)
- O Mio Babbino Caro from "Gianni Schicchi" (as arranger) (1918)
- Passacaglia from the Opera "Peter Grimes" (as transcriber) (1945/2016)
- Percy Grainger Suite (as arranger) (1983)
- Prelude to Act I of "Die Meistersinger" (as transcriber) (1862/2012)
- Roman Carnival Overture (as transcriber) (1838/1844/)
- Saxophone Concerto in E-Flat Major (as arranger)
- Short Suite No. 4 (2003)
- Suite from "Romeo and Juliet" (as arranger) (1935/199-?)
- Three Songs (as arranger) (1885-1894)
- Tragic Overture (as transcriber) (1880/)
- Two Grainger Melodies (as transcriber) (1912/1988)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (as transcriber; ed. Johnson) (1862)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Joseph Kreines." Accessed 3 July 2021
- "Joseph Kreines." Aeolus Music. Web. Accessed 3 July 2021
- Perusal score