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Ballad for Benny
Contents
General Info
Year: 2001
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: de haske
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $92.00 | Score Only (print) - $16.00
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
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Glockenspiel
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
You'll feel the warmth shine through in this gentle ballad dedicated to the composer's young son. Philip Sparke has a gift for creating expressive melodies and lush textures that build slowly, letting the listener savor each moment. In this, as with much of his music, it's difficult to say which is more musically rewarding, the climactic passage of the work, or the journey that got you there.
- Program Note by publisher
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Rutgers Wind Ensemble - 2012
Media
State Ratings
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP III
- Tennessee: III
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School (Union City, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Nelson Agregado, conductor) - 17 February 2017 (2017 CASMEC Conference, San Jose)
- Silverado High School (Las Vegas, Nev.) Wind Symphony – 8 April 2014
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Atlantic Odyssey (2010)
- Ballad for Benny (2001)
- Bandwagon
- Barn Dance and Cowboy Hymn (1982)
- Between the Two Rivers (2003)
- Big Sky Overture
- A Bluegrass Overture (2017)
- Cambridge Intrada
- Camelot Chronicles, The
- Carnival
- Carol of the Shepherds
- Celebration (1993)
- Centurion, The (1988/2000)
- Chorale and Variations
- Clarinet Calypso
- Colorado Springs
- Concert Prelude (1976/2000)
- Concerto for Clarinet
- Dance Movements (1995)
- Deserts (2008)
- Diamond Concerto (2012)
- Diversions - Variations on a Swiss Folk Song
- Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
- Earth, Water, Sun, Wind (2000)
- English Sea Song Suite, An
- Euphonium Concerto No. 2
- Exultation (2010)
- Fanfare for Saint Cecilia (2008)
- Fanfare, Romance and Finale
- Fantasy for Euphonium
- Festive Tribute, A (J.S. Bach)
- Fiesta! (1998)
- Fiesta de la Vida
- Five Festive Fanfares
- Flying the Breeze (2002/2004)
- Four Norfolk Dances (2001)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (as arranger) (1910/2007)
- Hail the Dragon! (2010)
- Harlequin (2004)
- Hanover Festival (2000)
- Huntingdon Celebration, A (2003)
- Infinity and Beyond...
- Invictus
- Jubilee Overture (1983)
- Klezmer Karnival, A (2004)
- Land of the Long White Cloud, The
- Lindisfarne Rhapsody, A (1998)
- Madrigalum (2006)
- Marchissimo (2004)
- Mary's Boy Child (as arranger)
- Masquerade
- Merry-Go-Round (2002)
- Morning Song (2002)
- Music of the Spheres (2004)
- Navigation Inn
- Once in Royal David’s City (as arranger)
- Orient Express (1987)
- Out of the Darkness, Into the Light
- Overture for Woodwinds (2000)
- Panis Angelicus (as arranger) (1872/2001)
- Pantomime (1988/1996)
- Pastime with Good Company (as arranger) (15--?/2005)
- Postcard from Singapore (2004)
- Pioneers, The (2005)
- Reflections on an Old Japanese Folk Song (2015)
- Roaring Forties, The (2008)
- Sailing with the Tall Ships (2012)
- Salute to a Hero (2009)
- Scenes from a Comedy
- Shalom! (2001)
- Sierra Nevada (2006)
- Sinfonietta No. 1
- Sinfonietta No. 2
- Sinfonietta No. 3 (2001)
- Sleepers, Awake! (as transcriber)
- Song and Dance (1984)
- Spirit of the Sequoia (2004)
- Strathcarron (2002)
- Suite from Hymn of the Highlands
- The Sun Will Rise Again (2011)
- Sunrise at Angel's Gate (2001)
- Symphonic Metamorphosis (2007)
- Symphony No. 1. See: Earth, Water, Sun, Wind
- Tales of the River Wye (2007)
- Tameside Overture
- Te Deum Prelude (as arranger)
- Ten Chorale Preludes (as arranger) (1914/2002)
- Theatre Music
- Three English Folk Song Miniatures (2013)
- Three Klezmer Miniatures (2009)
- Three Washington Statues (2015)
- To a New Dawn (2000)
- To a Wild Rose (as arranger)
- Trombone Concerto (2007)
- Valerius Variations (2005)
- Victory Fanfare
- A Weekend in New York (2008)
- White Rose, The (2002)
- Wilten Festival Overture
- Winter's Tale, A (2010)
- Year of the Dragon (1984/1985)
- Year of the Dragon (2017 edition) (1984/1985/2017)
- A Yorkshire Overture (1991)
