Arizona
Subtitle: Overture on an Indian Folk Melody. Opus 46.
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 7:15
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Mitropa Music, through De Haske
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €123.83 | Score Only (print) - €30.37
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo (optional)
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
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 Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass (optional)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Sandpaper Blocks
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Temple Blocks
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Arizona is written in a typical three-part overture form. The composition is not strictly descriptive as such, but rather conveys moods and emotions, inspired by impressions of the American desert state of Arizona: the endless, cactus-studded desert landscape, a lone Indian on horseback, the legendary Grand Canyon Railroad, the Petrified Forest and the famous Monument Valley.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the "Federazione Bandistica Ticinese" (Fe.Ba.Ti) Switzerland.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Oregon State University (Corvallis) University Campus Band (Erik Kar Jun Leung, conductor) – 18 November 2021
- Banda de Música Conservatorio de Lalín (Spain) (Isabel María Rubio Molina, conductor) – 2018
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)