Divertimento in F
General Info
Year: 1995
Duration: c. 15:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil a Kjos Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts - $125.00 | Score Only - $13.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Eb 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-IV
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass (Electric Bass Guitar)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (Tam-tam)
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Tenor Drum
- Tom-toms
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Divertimento in F was commissioned by the Louisiana State University Wind Ensemble, Frank Wickes, director. A work in five contrasting movements, each was written to illustrate a different compositional style and to portray a different emotion.
Fanfare is a grand announcement using quartal and quintal harmonies, imitative counterpoint and some minimalist techniques. It is dedicated to the composer's composition teacher, Fisher Tull. Fate is a musical tribute to the great American composer William Schuman, employing many of Schuman's techniques, especially the use of polychords. It contains a brief quote from Schuman's Third Symphony. Fury, a dissonant, angular and harmonically thick movement, was influenced greatly by American composer, Joan Tower with who the composer studied at the time of its creation. Mixed meter is used to convey the illusion of accelerando. Dedicated to four of the composer's closest friends, all of whom are clergy, Faith weaves the composer's feelings of friendship, love of hymns, and sense of personal faith into this five variation set on the Scottish hymn tune "Dundee". The final movement, Frolic, is the most lighthearted of the movements and completes the work by quoting material from the first movement. This movement is dedicated to the American composer, David Diamond.
Program Note by Jack Stamp
Commercial Discography
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Orange County Wind Symphony (Andrew Mazzaferro, conductor) - 23 November 2014
- Sacramento State Wind Ensemble (Robert Halseth, conductor) - 28 November 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
All Wind Works
- AirLink (2009)
- Aloft! (1997)
- Antithigram (1977/1988)
- As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
- Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
- Bandancing (2004)
- Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
- The Beltway Jam (2006)
- Border Dance (2021)
- Cage Dance (2020)
- Capriccio (2023)
- Cenotaph (1992)
- Cheers! (1995)
- Chorale and Toccata (1993)
- Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
- Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
- Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
- Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
- Divertimento in F (1995)
- Down East Fanfare (2003)
- Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
- Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
- Encomium (2022)
- Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
- Escapade (2007)
- Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
- Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
- Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
- Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
- Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
- Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
- The Final Beguine (2018)
- Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
- Forefathers
- Four Maryland Songs (2000)
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
- Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
- I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
- In Final Obedience (1994)
- In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
- In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
- Iridium
- Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
- Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
- Miniature Overture (2010)
- No Brief Candle (2019)
- Panhandle Prelude (2013)
- Parkway Jam Fanfare
- Past the Equinox
- Pastime (1999)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
- Prayer and Jubilation
- Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
- Psalm 150 (2013)
- Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
- Repetend
- Ricercare (2001)
- Rondeau
- Rondo alla BCP (2023)
- San Luis Snapshots (2016)
- Scenes from Terezin (2009)
- Skyline
- A Song of Hope (2013)
- Southpaw (2014)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
- Stranger at My Door (2021)
- Symphony No. 1 (2006)
- Three Places in England
- Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
- Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
- Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
- With Trump and Wing