Fantasy on Mr Hyde's Song
General Info
Year: 1998
Duration: c. 7:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Piquant Press
Cost: Score and Parts - $300.00 (rental) | Score Only - $45.00
Instrumentation
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Bongos
- Conga
- Flexitone
- Guiro
- Maracas (2)
- Orchestra Chimes
- Ratchet
- Siren Whistle
- Suspended Cymbal (small, medium, large)
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Temple Blocks
- Timbales (3)
- Trap Set (with Cowbell)
- Triangle (very small)
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes, Metal
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by the United States Navy Band.
- Program Note from publisher
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Donald Grantham was inspired to compose this work by a line he read in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: "Hyde had a song upon his lips as he made the drugs, and as he drank it, toasted the dead man." Grantham wondered what sort of music the monster would be singing, and so he composed music that he thought might represent that moment. He wanted to be jaunty, yet sinister, with a bit of a cinematic flare -- think Spencer Tracy stalking the foggy streets of London in the 1941 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
- Program Note from live interview with Donald Grantham by Jerry Junkin, October 2015
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Voice of Change (Jo Boatwright, conductor) - 2000
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Texas Wind Ensemble (Jerry Junkin, conductor) – 25 October 2015
- Dallas (Tx.) Wind Symphony (Jerry Junkin, conductor) – 20 February 2001 (CBDNA 2001 National Conference, Denton, Tx.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- After Hafiz (2016)
- Amber Sky
- Baron Cimetiere's Mambo (2004)
- Baron Piquant on Pointe (2011)
- Baron La Croix's Shuffle (2007)
- Baron Samedi's Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) (2005)
- Bum's Rush (1994)
- Chant and Hymn for Our Lady
- Circa 1600 (2018)
- Cloudless Day, Bitter Sky (2002)
- "Come Memory..." (2002)
- Concerto in One Movement for Bass Trombone (1979)
- Court Music (2005)
- Don't You See? (2001)
- Effulgent Light (2017)
- Exhilaration and Cry (2008)
- Fantasy on "In Dulci Jubilo" (2015)
- Fantasy on "La Golondrina" (2003)
- Fantasy on Mr. Hyde's Song (1998)
- Fantasy Variations (1927/1998)
- Farewell to Gray (2001)
- Fayetteville Bop (2002)
- From "An Alabama Songbook" (2007)
- Honey in the Rock (2008)
- JS Dances (2003)
- J'ai été au bal (1999)
- Kentucky Harmony (2000)
- Let Evening Come (Grantham) (2014)
- Lone Star Twister (2008)
- Music for the Blanton (2006)
- Northern Celebration (2001)
- Phantasticke Spirites (2002)
- Shenandoah (2017)
- Southern Harmony (1998)
- Wondrous Love (2008)
- Sol y Sombra (2014)
- Spangled Heavens (2010)
- Starry Crown (2007)
- Symphony for Winds and Percussion (2009)
- Stomp (Grantham) (2009)
- Summer of 2008 (2008)
- Thunderbird
- Trumpet Gloria (2006)
- Tuba Concerto (Grantham) (2012)
- An Uneasy Mrch
- Variations on an American Cavalry Song (2001)
- What Comes Around... (2017)
- A Winter Sky (2022)
Resources
- Grantham, D. (1998). Fantasy on Mr. Hyde's Song [score]. Piquant Press: Austin, Tex.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Wikipedia