Divertimento for Band (Hearshen)
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General Info
Year: 2000
Duration: c. 14:25
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ludwig-Masters Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $150.00 | Score Only (print) - $30.00
Movements
1. Ragtime – 2:35
2. Blues – 2:15
3. Mambo Loco – 2:50
4. Susan's Song – 3:25
5. March of the Little People – 2:35
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
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-IV-V
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Cast in five movements, Hearshen's divertimento is the quintessential reflection of the multicultural American experience, melding popular and traditional musical styles indigenous to the United States, Europe and Cuba.
- Program Note from publisher
Hearshen's Divertimento was written using American composer Vincent Persichetti's Divertimento for Band, Op. 42, as a model. Hearshen employs traditional American compositional and harmonic devices in this five-movement work, but he did so with a twist: modern be-bop harmony pervades the Ragtime and Blues movements. The third movement, Mambo Loco, is based on a rhythmic structure designed to make the concert band swing in the manner of Leonard Bernstein. Susan's Song is named for and dedicated to Hearshen's wife, and the final movement, Children's Dance, exploits the universally recognized (minor third) interval used by children all over the world -- the "naa-naa" interval.
- Program Note from Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
To Colonel Lowell Graham and the USAF Heritage of America Band.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band (Lowell Graham, conductor) - 2013
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class AA
- Georgia: VI
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP I
- Louisiana: IV
- Maryland: VI
- North Carolina: VI
- Oklahoma: V-A
- South Carolina: VI
- Tennessee: V
- Virginia: VI
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of North Texas (Denton) Symphonic Band (Dennis W. Fisher, conductor) – 29 March 2018
- Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (James Osborn, conductor) – 25 February 2018
- Blackburn High School (Victoria, Aus.) Symphonic Band (Jemima Bunn, conductor) - 20 December 2017 (2017 Midwest Clinic)
- University of Louisville (Ky.) Wind Ensemble (Jamie Nix, conductor) - 9 March 2017 (82nd Annual ABA National Convention)
- Bläserphilharmonie Aargau (Switzerland) – 19 April 2015
- United States Air Force Band I (Washington, D.C.) (Lowell Graham, conductor) – 20 December 2000 (2000 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Abbey Road (as arranger)
- Aragon 1945-1952 (2017)
- Band Jive (2009)
- Danish Bouquet (2005)
- Divertimento for Band (2000)
- Fantasia on Aura Lee
- Forged in Fire (as transcriber) (2008)
- March from "Strike Up the Band" (as arranger)
- No Biz Like Show Biz (as arranger)
- Patriotic Overture, A
- Reveille (2017)
- Symphonic Dances from "Fiddler on the Roof" (as arranger)
- Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa
Resources
- Hearshen, I. (2000). Divertimento for Band [score]. Ludwig: Cleveland, Ohio.
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. 2002. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 4. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 628-635.