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Fantasy in Earth Tones
Subtitle: For Band (Grade 3/4) and Fixed Media
Contents
General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c. 6:45
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Cautious Music
Cost: Score and Parts - unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
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
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Cowbell
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbals (3)
- Tam-Tam
- Tom-Toms (5)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
Stereo Electronic Tape
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Fantasy in Earth Tones takes its name from Earth Tones, a piece for fixed media written by the composer in 1978 on the Moog Mark IV and the Arp 2600 synthesizers. The sounds of the times were dominated by the warm pulsing of square wave pads and glissing lead lines. Groups like Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the Moody Blues fixed these sounds firmly in my ears when I was a high school student. So when Jay Gilbert and his 26 colleagues asked me to write a piece combining fixed media with high school band, my mind and my ears went immediately to those days, and those sounds. The opening runs in the synth and the last 30 seconds of the piece borrow from Earth Tones, but the remainder of the piece is pure fantasy.
I am delighted to have been asked to write this piece for them, and to bring a little of my own youthful musical experiences to the ears of the talented young players of a new decade.
- Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
- Audio: University of Missouri-Kansas City Wind Symphony (Steven D. Davis, conductor) – 18 September 2012
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 7 May 2017
- University of Missouri-Kansas City Wind Symphony (Steven D. Davis, conductor) – 18 September 2012 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Ascension (1988/2010)
- The Billion Man Fanfare (1995)
- Concerto for Marimba and Wind Ensemble (1998)
- A Crowd of Stars (2013)
- Edges (1999)
- EllenSong (2012)
- Fanfare: Many Voices, One Future (2000)
- Fantasy in Earth Tones (2012)
- Graduation (2019)
- Words of Love (2007)
Resources
- Mobberley, J. (2012). Fantasy in Earth Tones : For Band (Grade 3/4) and Fixed Media [score]. [Cautious Music] : [Liberty, Mo.]
- Perusal score
