Entrances of the Porteuses
William Grant Still (adapt. Dana Paul Perna; ed. Thomas Lloyd)
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General Info
Year: 1927 /
Duration: c. 2:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Ballet
Publisher: William Grant Still Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $92.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
La Guiablesse is a 1927 ballet composition in nine movements by American composer William Grant Still. The ballet was first performed in 1933 by Howard Hanson and Thelma Biracree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and Ruth Page in Chicago, Illinois. La Guiablesse (a patois word meaning female devil) is based on a scenario by Ruth Page. which in turn was based on a legend of Martinique.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Jacksonville (Ala.) State University Honor Band Wind Ensemble (Reginald A. McDonald, conductor) - 2017
- Columbus (Ohio) Community College Concert Band (Thomas Lloyd, conductor) - 29 May 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Africa: Land of Superstition (arr. Tam)
- Afro-American Symphony for Band (arr. West Point Military Academy) (1930/1970)
- Afro-American Symphony. See also: Symphony No. 1
- Scherzo from "The Afro-American Symphony" (1930/1970)
- The American Scene (1957)
- Choreographic Prelude (arr. Lloyd) (1970)
- Dances in the Canebrakes (as orchestrator; arr. Brown) (1953/)
- Entrances of the Porteuses (arr. Perna; ed. Lloyd)
- Fanfare for American War Heroes (arr. Lloyd) (1942 / )
- Fanfare for the 99th Fighter Squadron
- Folk Suite for Band (1966)
- Frisco Jazz Band Blues (1919)
- From the Delta (1945)
- The Hesitating Blues (as arranger) (1916)
- Kaintuck' (tr. Perna) (1935)
- Land of Peace
- Little Folk Suite from the Western Hemisphere
- Little Red Schoolhouse (arr. Steele) (1957/1977)
- Miniatures (1963)
- Old California
- Rising Tide. See: Victory Tide
- "Scherzo" for Band. See: Afro-American Symphony for Band
- Song of the City. See: Victory Tide
- Summerland: From Three Visions (arr. Teter) (1937/2013)
- Summerland: For Wind Ensemble (arr. Teter) (1937/2013)
- Symphony No. 1 (1931/1946)
- Symphony No. 1. See also: Afro-American Symphony for Band
- To You, America! (1952/1956)
- Victory Tide (1939/1942/1945)
- Wood Notes (arr. Mauldin) (1948/1959/2022)
Resources
- La Guiablesse (ballet), Wikipedia. Accessed 6 April 2021