Engines of Change
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 2:00
Difficulty: 1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $46.00; (digital) - $46.00 | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone/Baritone/Bassoon
Tuba
Timpani (optional)
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Snare Drum
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This engaging work uses the language of music to convey the concept of change as a necessary fact of life. With an introductory passage that begins simply as one note, then two, and then three, a bold melodic phrase using no more than four pitches soon emerges, moving the piece forward with a sense of conviction and determination until “change” has been achieved,
- Program Note from The Instrumentalist
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
All Wind Works
- American Salute (as arranger)
- Annabel Lee (2000)
- And All the Bells on Earth Shall Ring
- Appalachian Tapestry (2009)
- Baba Yetu (as arranger) (2005/2015)
- Beetlejuice (as arranger) (1988/2015)
- Brother James' Air (as arranger) (1915/1995)
- Canticle (1996)
- Carols from the British Isles (as arranger) (2013)
- A Celtic Christmas
- Children's March (as arranger) (1919/2000)
- Christmas Bells Overture (2010)
- Christmas from the '50s (2009)
- A Classic Christmas
- Cole Porter Classics (as arranger) (2004)
- Colonial Song (as arranger) (1919/2014)
- The Dam Busters March (as arranger) (2004)
- Doctor Who (as arranger) (1963/2015)
- Down in Some Lonesome Valley (2002)
- Ellan Vannin Suite
- Engines of Change (2015)
- Festivo (as arranger) (1968/2008
- From Sea to Shining Sea (as scorer; arr. Whitney) (1882/1963/2017))
- Glory! (2016)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (as arranger) (1944/2006)
- Hymn for Those Who Serve (2015)
- I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (as arranger)
- I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (as arranger) (1905-12/1999)
- Irish Suite: The Last Rose of Summer (as arranger) (1950/2010)
- Irish Suite: The Wearing of the Green (as arranger) (1947/2009)
- Japanese (as arranger) (2006)
- March for a Norwegian Penguin
- March On, America! (as arranger) (2014)
- Morris Dance Tunes (as arranger) (1910/2010)
- On a Tune of William Billings (2015)
- Over the Sea to Skye (as arranger) (2014)
- Promenade (as arranger) (1945/2017)
- A Quiet Music (2007)
- A Ralph Vaughan Williams Portrait (as arranger) (2018)
- Santa in the Mix (as arranger) (2021)
- Screamers! (as arranger) (2013)
- Selections from Leroy Anderson's "Irish Suite" (as arranger) (2011)
- Slane (as arranger) (1994)
- Three Movements from "Water Music" (as arranger) (1715/2014)
- To Reap the Blessings of Freedom (2002/2005)
- Two Variants on Dives and Lazarus (2014)
- United States Armed Forces Salute (as arranger) (2020)
- U.S. Field Artillery March (as arranger)
- A Vaughan Williams Christmas (as arranger) (1999)
- We Will Remember Them (2021)
- Welcome Christmas (as arranger) (1997/2013)
- Windforce (2016)
- You'll Be Back (as arranger) (2015/2020)
- You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)
Resources
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist 70.9 (2016): 28. Print