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Black Rainbow
Subtitle: For 6 Percussionists & Symphonic Band
Contents
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 8:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan
Cost: Score and Parts - $140.00 | Score Only - $28.00
Movements
1. Red: activity, energy, passion
2. Orange: creativity, playfulness, equilibrium
3. Yellow: wisdom, clarity of thought, orderliness
4. Green: harmony, sympathy, growth, expansion
5. Blue: peace & understanding, calm, relaxation
6. Indigo: infinity, bridge between the finite & the infinite
7. Violet: combination of red and blue energies; viewed as both an ending and a beginning
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe (optional)
Bassoon (optional)
Eb Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Eb Alto Saxophone I-II
Bb Tenor Saxophone
Eb Baritone Saxophone
Bb Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium (Bass Clef & Treble Clef)
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Bongos
- China Cymbals
- Conga
- Crotales
- Egg Shaker
- Marimba
- Ocean Drum
- Sizzle Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimesx
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by the Coventry High School Band, Ned F. Smith, Director.
- Program Note from score
Commissioned by the Coventry High School band (Ned F. Smith, director), Black Rainbow explores the elusive and mystical moonbow – a rainbow produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon. Because it is dark when a moonbow appears, the human eye cannot detect the full spectrum of colors that are present, making the moonbow appear to lack color, thus the name black rainbow. Using the spectrum of seven colors found in all rainbows – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet or R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. – I derived a pitch set that is used as the thematic material throughout: B-flat, G, F, C-flat, G-flat, D-flat, D-natural.
Additionally, Black Rainbow divides into seven sections, traveling through the colors, each with its own unique energy.
Red: activity, energy, passion
Orange: creativity, playfulness, equilibrium
Yellow: wisdom, clarity of thought, orderliness
Green: harmony, sympathy, growth, expansion
Blue: peace & understanding, calm, relaxation
Indigo: infinity, bridge between the finite & the infinite
Violet: combination of red and blue energies; viewed as both an ending and a beginning
- Program Note by publisher
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Audio Links
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Lone Star Wind Orchestra (Dallas, Tex.) (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) – 26 March 2017
- University of North Texas Symphonic Band (Dennis W. Fisher, conductor) - 30 April 2015
- Vandercook College of Music (Chicago) Symphonic Band (Charles T. Menghini, conductor) - 19 December 2014 (2014 Midwest Clinic)
- Sydney University Wind Orchestra - 2014
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Dark Matter (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Downtown Dash (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Such Small Things (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Ye Merry Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Black Rainbow (2014)
- Bounce (2015)
- Chasing Infinity (2018)
- Dark Matter (2016)
- Dark Matter (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Downtown Dash (2009)
- Downtown Dash (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Ellipsis (2010)
- Fidget (2015)
- From the Ashes (2017)
- Gate City Snapshot (2012)
- Imagining World (2010)
- Immortal Dream (2009)
- Irish Washerwoman (2006)
- Legend of the Sword (Daughtrey) (2007)
- Limerick Daydreams (2006)
- Mercury Rising (2005)
- Point of Reckoning (as arranger) (2015)
- Power Struggle (2009)
- Sensus Vitae (2013)
- Shine On! (2017)
- Silver Moon (2007)
- Spiraling Light (2016)
- StarCatchers (2016)
- Such Small Things (2017)
- Such Small Things (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Through the Horizon (2007)
- True Things (2017)
- Twitch (2016)
- Water Spirits (2019)
- Ye Merry Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
References
- Daughtrey, N. (2014). Black Rainbow: For 6 Percussionists and Symphonic Band [score]. C. Alan Publications: Greensboro, N.C.
- Payne, Phillip D. "Gate City Snapshot." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 9, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 155-163. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2013.
