Alegria (Chambers)
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General Info
Year: 2022
Duration: c. 3:30
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Aspinwood Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $85.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The word alegría, with varied spellings in several languages, means joy, happiness, and cheerfulness. The piece is fun, upbeat, high energy, and explores a range of emotions and a variety of time signatures and more than one tempo. At times humorous, sometimes quirky, beautifully melodic, this composition expresses joy with unique-sounding modes and an energetic groove that will make you want to get up and dance.
A variety of percussion instruments were included, most notably the tambourine(s) at the end. The use of the tambourine in all types of celebratory music elevates then to one of the most JOYFUL instruments that exist.
- Program Note by composer
Commissioned by the International Bandmasters Fraternity, Phi Beta Mu.
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. MIDI realization
- Video: Artie Henry Middle School (Cedar Park, Tx.) Band (Robert T. Herrings III, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Messiah University (Mechanicsburg, Penn.) Symphonic Winds (Travis Weller, conductor) - 17 November 2023
- William H. Taft High School 6A Symphonic All Region 29 Band (San Antonio, Tx.) (Charles Aguillon, conductor) - 27 February 2023
- Artie Henry Middle School (Cedar Park, Tx.) Band (Robert T. Herrings III, conductor) - 21 December 2022 (2022 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Byzantine Dances (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Carol of the Bells (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1914/2020)
- Rhythmania! (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2021)
All Wind Works
- Alegría (2022)
- All for One, One for All (2019)
- All That We Are (2023)
- Beautiful River (as arranger) (1864/2011)
- The Bold Brigade (2020)
- Bright Light in the World (2022)
- Byzantine Dances (2018)
- Byzantine Dances (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Carol of the Bells (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1914/2020)
- Cedar Canyon Sketches (2014)
- Clear Creek Canyon
- ConnectUS
- Cruisin' Bluesin' (2016)
- Dances for the Muse, Terpsichore (2022)
- Danza de España (2015)
- Down on the Delta (2022)
- Embark (2022)
- Energy Ball (2022)
- Fandango (2023)
- Fanfare Esprit (2022)
- Fearless (2022)
- The Great Green Kazoo (2019)
- Jumpstart! (2014)
- Kalos Eidos (2020)
- La Terre Sacrée (2021)
- Land of Enchantment (2022)
- March of the Freedom Fighters (2016)
- Moon Song and Tribal Dance (2014)
- Night Fury (2016/2017)
- Noble Procession (2014)
- Pipe and Thistle (2019)
- Rainbow in the Clouds (2017/2018)
- Rhythmania! (2021)
- Rhythmania! (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2021)
- Ridgeview Overture (2020)
- Rock Attack (2015)
- The Rusty Bucket (2015)
- So Wondrous Bright (2015)
- Softly Speaks the Night (2016)
- Song of the Fjords (2021)
- Squirrel Chase (2021)
- Summer Glen (2020)
- Sunchaser (2017)
- Tarantella (2022)
- To Create a Voice (2018)
- Where the Waters Meet (2021)
Resources
- Carol Brittin Chambers, Aspenwood Music Accessed 15 December 2022