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Chorale in Blue
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 7:05
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stephenson Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00; (digital) $100.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass 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-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-VI, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals (2)
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam
- Tom-toms (4)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Chorale in Blue was inspired by nothing other than the thought of a dark street at night, perhaps lit up by a solitary street lamp, and the thoughts that might occur in one’s mind in such a spot.
It is also an exercise in the blues scale, in several keys, so that the players might have an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the constructs of such an important musical root of our American history.
The music is sometimes thoughtful, or sometimes animated, and sometimes gritty, but should always hopefully be fun to play.
- Program Note by composer
Commissioned by the South East Iowa Bandmasters Association for the High School Honor Band 2019
- Program Note from publisher
Media
(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Stetson University (Deland, Fla.) Symphonic Band (Doug Phillips, conductor)- 19 November 2021
- Iowa City (Iowa) West High School Band (James Stephenson, conductor) – 13 February 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Fanfare for an Angel (Adaptable Band) (2010/2018/2021)
- Fiesta! (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Holiday Carol Medley (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Loop-D-Loop (Adaptable Band) (2017/2020)
- May the Road Rise to Meet You (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- No Thing Can Die as Others Do (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Reflections (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- 2/2 Tango (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- Ubi Caritas (Adaptable Band) (2019/2021)
All Wind Works
- American Embers (2017)
- American Fanfare (2009)
- as the fireflies watched (2020)
- August in York (2008)
- BasSOON It will be Christmas (2007/2013)
- Celebration Overture (1999/2018)
- Chorale in Blue (2018)
- Christmas Charleston (as arranger) (2012)
- Code of Conduct (2023)
- Concerto Braziliano
- Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble
- Concerto for Cell Phone
- Concerto for Hope (2016/2017)
- Concerto for Piccolo Trumpet (2016)
- Concerto for Winds (2023)
- Concerto Grosso (2016)
- Concerto No 1 for Trumpet (2007)
- Concerto No. 2 for Trumpet (2010)
- Concerto No. 3 for Trumpet. See: Concerto for Hope
- Deep Dish (2016)
- The Devil's Tale (2013)
- A Dialogue for Self and Soul (2013)
- Dodecafecta (2010)
- Duels and Dances (2011)
- Duo Fantastique (2007)
- Exhale! (2021)
- Eyes on the Bison (2021)
- Fanfare for an Angel (2010/2018)
- Fanfare for an Angel (Adaptable Band) (2010/2018/2021)
- Fanfare for Democracy (2021)
- Fiesta! (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- ...Forward (2021)
- Glissin' Up (2016)
- Hanging by a Thread (2014)
- Heritage of Freedom Fanfare
- Holiday Carol Medley (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Holiday Fanfare Medley (2010)
- Homage and Farewell (2010)
- In the Moment (2018)
- In the Moment Too (2018)
- Intrepid Promise
- It's About Time (2014)
- Just B. See: Symphony for Brass
- Kentucky Run (2019)
- Kleiner Walzer (as transcriber) (1896/2022)
- L'esprit de la trompette (2012/2014)
- Lonesome Valley Folk Suite (2022)
- Loop-D-Loop (Adaptable Band) (2017/2020)
- Luther: In Canon (2017)
- May the Road Rise to Meet You (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Möbius Trip (2017)
- No Thing Can Die as Others Do (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Octet (2021)
- Overture to a Winter Celebration (2010)
- Perpetual Notion (2020)
- Reflections (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- Requiem Dances (2018)
- Rhythms of the Spirit (2006)
- Saints Fantasy (2017)
- Scram! (2018)
- Second Thoughts (2014)
- Smitty's Aweigh Overture
- Sonata Rhapsody "The Arch" (2009/2014)
- Sounds Awakened (2013)
- Stars and Stripes Fanfare (2007/2018)
- The Storyteller (2013/2017)
- Sunburst Fanfare (2023)
- Symphony for Brass (2014)
- Just B (2020)
- Symphony No 1 for Concert Band (2008)
- Symphony No 2 (2016)
- Taps (2017)
- there are no words (2015)
- this is most certainly true (2017)
- Three Bones Concerto (2013)
- To the Sky (2011)
- 2/2 Tango (Adaptable Band) (2010/2020)
- Twisted Shout (2021)
- Ubi Caritas (Adaptable Band) (2019/2021)
- Unfettered (2020)
- Variations on Chinese Folk Songs (2006)
- Vast and Curious (2014/2017)
- Walk Slowly (arr. M. Stephenson) (1997/2009/2020)
- Wildcat Run (2019)
- Wooden Dimes (2021/2022)
- Zodiac Concerto II (2022)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Stephenson Music Accessed 25 November 2021