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Force Field
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: II+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00; (digital) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The teenage composer writes that this piece, written in overture form, signifies “strength and durability.” The bold statements at the beginning and end represent the power with which a force field stands, while the middle lyrical section depicts protection.
- Program Note from publisher
Selected as a winner in the 2018 Make Music Young Composers Contest.
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class C
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Champions Rising (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Energy! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Beyond Reach (2021)
- A Builder's Dream (2021)
- Champions Rising (2020)
- Champions Rising (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Contraption (2018)
- Energy! (2020)
- Energy! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Force Field (2019)
- Forgotten Tales of the West (2019)
- The Grid (2021)
- Incandescence
- Niagara Falls (2019)
- Tectonic Plates (2020)
Resources
- Adrian B. Sims website Accessed 18 March 2021
- The Horizon Leans Forward…, compiled and edited by Erik Kar Jun Leung, GIA Publications, 2021, p. 477.
- Perusal score