Alpina Fanfare
General Info
Year: 1997
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: De Haske
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €88.00 | Score Only (print) - $23.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
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 Cornet/Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbal
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam
- Tenor Drum
- Tom-tom (3)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Alpina Fanfare was composed for Kurt Brogli and the Swiss-Loss-Band. The work includes fanfare-like elements at the beginning -- and again at the end -- that bookend a solemn middle section.
- Program Note from Baylor University Concert Band concert program, 18 February 2018
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Baylor University (Waco, Texas) Concert Band (Steve Dailey, conductor) – 18 February 2018
- Arkansas Tech (Russellville) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Daniel A. Belongia, conductor) – 4 February 2018
- Orchestre d'Harmonie de Sainte Savine (Patrice Koludzki, conductor) – 19 November 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Aida: Grand Finale (as arranger) (1871/2000)
- Triumphal March (as arranger) (1871/2005)
- Alpina Fanfare (1997)
- Antiche Danza ed Arie per Liuto (as arranger) (1917/1999)
- Arizona (2014)
- Blue Horizons (2002)
- Bulgarian Dances (2011)
- Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (2013)
- Ceresio (2002)
- Colorado (2016)
- Convergents (1991)
- Cossack Folk Dances (2004)
- Ernani (as arranger) (1844/2000)
- Greek Folk Song Suite (2002)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1995)
- Huckleberry Finn Suite (2005)
- Huntingtower (as arranger) (1932/1987)
- Interlude for Band (1987)
- I Vespri Siciliani (as arranger) (1855/2000)
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia (as arranger) (1816/2011)
- Il Trovatore: Coro dei Gitani (as arranger) (1853/2000)
- A Joyful Fanfare (2007)
- Jubilee Fanfare (1997)
- La Forza del Destino (as transcriber) (1862/1995)
- Le Cortège du Roi Renaud (1999/2021)
- Mexican Pictures (1990)
- MGB March (2005)
- Mosaici Bizantini (1993)
- Norma (as arranger) (1831/2002)
- Poema Alpestre (1999)
- Mountain Majesty (1999/2005)
- Piccola Suite Italiana (2005)
- Puss in Boots (2013)
- Renaissance Suite (2008)
- Solemnitas (2002)
- Symphonic Fanfare (2009)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Symphony No. 2 (2018)
- Symphony No. 3 (2021)
- Tom Sawyer Suite (2002)
- Un Ballo en Maschera (as arranger) (1859/2000)
- Variations on a French Folk Song (2000)
Resources
- Cesarini, F. (1997). Alpina Fanfare [score]. De Haske: Heerenveen, Holland.
- Diller, Brian. "Alpina Fanfare." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 359-367. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2015.