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General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 4:55
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00; (digital) - $75.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The term footsteps can have different meanings. It can suggest everything from gently walking, to mysterious uncertainty, to massive marching. This evocative work by Dana Wilson moves progressively through a spectrum of images and textures, gradually gaining in power and drama throughout. Much like Ravel’s Bolero, Footsteps is based on simple, repeated themes with the intrigue provided by the colorful orchestration.
Footsteps was commissioned by the supporters of the Clarkston Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Clarkston, Mich.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
- Kansas: IV
- Michigan: Senior High A
- Tennessee: IV
Performances
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- University of Iowa (Iowa City) Concert Band (Kara Metzger, conductor) - 6 April 2022
- State University of New York, Fredonia, All College Band (Daryl Warren, conductor) – 4 March 2020
- Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Penn.) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Brian Norcross, conductor) – 8 November 2019
- Nazareth College (Rochester, N.Y.) Symphonic Band (Steven Zugelder, conductor) – 18 October 2019
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Concert Band (Christine Lundahl, conductor) – 11 February 2019
- Austin (Texas) Symphonic Band (Richard Floyd, conductor) - 2 April 2018
- Ithaca (N.Y.) College Concert Band (Greg Harris, conductor) – 14 December 2017
- Austin (Tx.) Symphonic Band (Richard Floyd, conductor) – 2 April 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
A complete list of Dana Wilson's compositions may be found here:
- Avatar, The (2005)
- Awakening... (2011)
- The Banquet (2017)
- Black Nightshade (2004)
- Calling, Ever Calling (1990)
- Clarion Call (1988)
- Colorado Peaks (2009)
- Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble (2010)
- Concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble (2021)
- Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1997)
- Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble (2019)
- Concerto for Trombone (2015)
- Concerto for Tuba (Wilson) (2012)
- Conjurer, The (2015)
- Dance of the New World (1992)
- Day Dreams (2006)
- Evolution (1999)
- Fanfare for a New Center (2011)
- Fanfare for Karel (2017)
- Footsteps (2010)
- Front Burner (2020)
- How Very Close (2012)
- Io Rising
- Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
- Last Ride to Solutré (1998)
- Leader Lieder (1993)
- Liquid Ebony (2006)
- Liquid Gold (2005)
- May the Road Rise Up to Meet You (2013/2019)
- Odysseus and the Sirens (2008)
- Of my dream before me... (2021)
- Old Number One (2017)
- On Fire! (2017)
- The One-Lady Band from Owego (2021)
- Piece of Mind (1987)
- Primal Worlds (2000)
- Quintessence (2019)
- Sang! (1993)
- Searching for Lost Dreams (2013)
- Shakata: Singing the World into Existence (1989)
- Shortcut Home (2003)
- Speak to Me (2010)
- ...the harder they fall (2004)
- the most sacred of times (2022)
- Time Cries, Hoping Otherwise (1991)
- To Set the Darkness Echoing (2005)
- Uprising (1995)
- Vortex (1999)
- When I Am Gone Away (2006)
- Winds on the Steppes (1994)
Resources
- Dana Wilson website Accessed 31 December 2017
- Wilson, D. (2010). Footsteps [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: New York.