Cowboy Symphony, A
General Info
Year: 2008
Duration: c. 9:20
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daehn Publications, through C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $86.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Movements
1. Chisholm Trail - 2:15
2. The Cowboy - 4:05
3. At a Cowboy Dance - 2:55
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Temple Blocks
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Git along little dogies! Head out to the open range with this three-movement work of well-known cowboy tunes. The first movement, Chisolm Trail, is based on the famous song and The Girl I Left Behind Me. A slow, mournful rendition of The Cowboy makes up the second movement. The piece concludes with a real hootenanny of a medley called At a Cowboy Dance, which includes: Buffalo Gals; Golden Slippers; Soldier's Joy and Skip to My Lou. This work offers serious music with quite a bit of fun.
- Program Note adapted from publisher
Media
State Ratings
- Florida: IV
- Michigan: Senior High C
- North Carolina: V
- Oregon: 4A
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Tremper High School (Kenosha, Wisc.) Concert Band (Kathryn Ripley, conductor) - 10 November 2021
- University of Wisconsin Concert Band (Pierre LaPlante, conductor) – 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- All Ye Young Sailors (as arranger) (2005)
- American Riversongs (1991)
- American Sketches (2014)
- As I Walked Through the Meadow (2019)
- At the Old Camp Ground (2017)
- The Band in the Square (2006)
- The Cat's Pajamas (2018)
- Caribbean Rondo (2009)
- Come to the Fair!
- A Cowboy Symphony (2008)
- Early One Morning (as arranger) (2005)
- English Country Settings (1997)
- Fantasy on a Fiddle Tune (2005)
- Great American West Suite, The (2013)
- In the Forest of the King (2000)
- La Bonne Aventure (2010)
- Legends and Heroes (2003)
- Minka's Sleigh Ride (2007)
- Music for the King's Delight (2007)
- Overture on a Minstrel Tune (1979)
- Prairie Songs (1998)
- Prospect (1983)
- Red River Valley, The (as arranger) (2001)
- Song of the Mountain Horn (as arranger) (2013)
- Songs of the Plains (2015)
- Suite of English Country Dances (2022)
- Suite of Old French Songs (2015)
- The Thunder and the Roar (2004)
- Travelin' Music (2018)
- The Voyageurs (2002)
- A Walk in the Morning Sun (2010)
- Winds A' "Whispering" (as arranger) (1920/2009)
- Yorkshire Folk Song Suite (2016)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Pierre La Plante website Accessed 10 November 2021