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Epic Venture
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 2:20
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Fuquay-Varina Middle School Bands (North Carolina), Epic Venture is a vibrant and colorful fanfare for young bands. While primarily based around a single melodic idea, the textures consistently change and grow in complexity. Beginning with a declarative fanfare, this work takes the listener on a musical journey across the Atlantic Ocean along with the early European settlers on their way to North America. The work gradually builds to the climactic ending to celebrate the settlers' long voyage to their new land.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Stiles Middle School (Leander, Tx.) Honors Band (Darcy Vogt Williams, conductor) - 17 December 2021 (2021 Midwest Clinic)
- West Fresno (Calif.) Middle School Honor Band (Jeff Jacox, conductor) - 13 April 2018 (2018 San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) Concert Band Invitational)
- Mississippi All State Middle School Band – Spring 2016
- Fuquay-Varina Middle School Band (Raleigh, N.C.) (Tyler Grant, conductor) – 2015 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Downtown Strut (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Epic Venture (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2020)
All Wind Works
- Along the Beaches of Normandy (2009)
- Anthem of an Era (2013)
- Ash & Stone (2019)
- at Twilight (2014)
- Banner of the Sky (2018)
- Banshee of the Badlands (2019)
- The Best of Rooms (as arranger) (1963/2017)
- Castle Gate, 1924 (2012)
- Chant and Fire Ritual (2011)
- Downtown Strut (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Epic Venture (2015)
- Epic Venture (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2020)
- Fanfare for 'Our Time' (2020)
- Fanfare for Athena (2020)
- From the Concord Chronicles (2016)
- Ghosts of the Lost Ship (2014)
- Housetop Holiday Jam! (as arranger) (2011)
- Illustrations (2013)
- Miles in the Sky (2015)
- Mission: Apollo (2015)
- Paceline (2018)
- Pacific Grooves (2022)
- Panoramic Fanfare (2014)
- Panoramic Landscapes (2015)
- Resplendent Light (2016)
- River Poem (2019)
- The Sacred Spheres (2021)
- Shimmering Joy (2018)
- Solace in the Equinox (2017)
- Terminal Velocity (2014)
- Winds of Celebration (2012)
Resources
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist 71.1 (2016): 40. Print.
- Perusal score
- Tyler Grant website Accessed 11 September 2020