Blues Factory
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: De Haske
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €168.21 | Score Only (print) - €28.03
Movements
1. Bleker's Blues
2. Rock Shuffle
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
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
Bass Guitar (optional)
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Congas (optional)
- Drum Set
- Glockenspiel
- Ride Cymbal
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Tom-tom
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This imaginative new work portrays the rich history of the textile industry through music. The decline of the industry is expressed in the opening slow movement with an authentic 12-bar blues. The second movement uses a jazzy rock style blues to show the optimism and solidarity of the mill workers
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by De Muzunklup in memory of the declining textile industry in Eilbergen (The Netherlands).
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Amador County (Sutter Creek, Calif.) Concert Band (Steve Chambers, conductor) - 10 June 2023
- Harmonie Royale Sainte Cécile de Saint-Léger (Belgium) (Jonathan Dévière, conductor) – 31 March 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Blue March and Boogie (Flex instrumentation) (2011)
- Europa (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2009)
- Norwegian Songs (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1999)
- Orlando Suite (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1989)
All Wind Works
- Ammerland (2001)
- Arioso (as arranger) (1729/2000)
- Blue March and Boogie (Flex instrumentation) (2011)
- Blues Factory (2003)
- Call of the Valley (2013)
- Concerto D'Amore (1995)
- Contrasto Grosso (1998)
- Elegy I: Jealousy (2009)
- Europa (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2009)
- Fanfare for Korea (2011)
- Festa Paesana (2000)
- Kraftwerk (2006)
- Legend of a Mountain (2008)
- Let Me Weep (as arranger) (1711/2004)
- Monterosi (2009)
- Norwegian Songs (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1999)
- Odelia (2013)
- Oregon (1989)
- Orlando Suite (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1989)
- Pasadena
- Queen's Park Melody (1989/1997)
- Ross Roy (1997)
- River City (2015)
- Sa Música (2012)
- The Saint and the City (2003)
- Salamander Symphony
- Spring Song (2013)
- Susato Variations (2009)
- Virginia (2001)
- Yellow Mountains (1998)
Resources
- Haan, J. (2003). The Blues Factory [score]. De Haske Publications: Heerenveen, Neth.
- Jacob de Haan website Accessed 10 June 2023
- Perusal score (in Attachments)