Fourth Suite for Band

Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed

Subtitle: City of Music

General Info

Year: 1993
Duration: c. 11:45
Difficulty: IV-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score & Parts - $160.00   |   Score Only - $15.00

Movements

1. Intrada
2. Aria
3. March

Instrumentation

Full Score

Brass Choir
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III

Band
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon (optional)
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
B-flat Cornet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

• Bass Drum
• Bells
• Crash Cymbals
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Triangle
• Tubular Bells
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Subtitled City of Music, this impressive three-movement suite was commissioned by the City of Takasaki, Japan. The movements: Intrada, Aria, and March, all are written to challenge mature bands and this work displays why Alfred Reed’s music is a favorite of upper level groups around the world.

Fourth Suite for Band was commissioned by the City of Tahasaki, Japan, for its annual Festival of the Arts, and is dedicated to the Karasugawa Wind Orchestra, Kenichi Kodama, conductor.

- Program Note from publisher

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (James Osborn, conductor) – 23 February 2020
• Banda de Lalín (Spain) (Isabel Maria Rubio Molina, conductor) - 2017

Works for Winds by this Composer

• Alleluia! Laudamus Te (1973)
• Arioso (as arranger)
• Armenian Dances (1972-1978)
  • Armenian Dances, Part One (1972)
  • Armenian Dances, Part Two (1978)
• Autumn Leaves (as arranger) (1947/2017)
• Ballade (1956/1999)
• Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Suite (as arranger) (1965)
• Canto e Camdombe
• Celebration Fanfare, A (1989)
• Ceremony of Flourishes (1964)
• Chanson Triste (1989)
• Chorale Prelude in E minor (1953/1966)
• Christmas Celebration, A (1987)
• Christmas Intrada, A (1980)
• Clear Track Polka (2000)
• Come, Sweet Death (as arranger) (1736/1976)
• Concertino for Marimba and Winds (1993)
• Curtain Up! (1991)
• Danza Caribe
• Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness (as arranger) (1653/1724/1990)
• Divertimento for Flute and Concert Band (1998)
• Double Wind Quintet (1975)
• El Camino Real (1985)
• El Camino Real (arr. Longfield) (1985/2013)
• Enchanted Island, The (1980)
• Fanfare and Processional (2005)
• The Fantasticks (as arranger) (1966)
• Fantasy on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (as arranger) (1973)
• A Festival Prelude (1962)
• A Festive Overture (1963)
• Fifth Suite for Band (1995)
• Finlandia (as editor)
• First Suite for Band (1975)
• Forget Me Not, O Lord (as arranger) (c. 1736/1985)
• Fourth Suite for Band (1994)
• Funiculi Funicula (as arranger)
• Giligia (A Song of Remembrance)
• Golden Year, The
• Greensleeves (1993/2011)
• Gypsy Dance (as arranger) (1872/1997)
• Huldigungsmarsch (as editor) (1864/2002)
• Highlights from "Exodus" (as arranger) (1960/1962)
• Highlights from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" (as arranger)
• The Hounds of Spring (1981)
• Hymn Variants
• I Left my Heart in San Francisco (as transcriber; ed. Rogers) (1954/1963)
• Imperatrix
• In Dulci Jubilo (as arranger)
• Intrada Drammatica (1968/1992)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (as arranger) (1723/1981)
• Jidai (2001)
• Joyeux Noël (2002)
• A Jubilant Overture (1970)
• A Jubilant Overture (arr. Conaway) (1970/2011)
• King of Love My Shepherd Is, The (1995)
• L’Arlésienne Suite No 2 (as editor, with McAlister) (1872/2002)
• Little Concert Suite, A (1984)
• Mancini! (as arranger)
• March Grandioso (as arranger) (1901/1969)
• Mary Poppins (as arranger) (1964/2006)
• Millennium III
• Mr. Music
• Music for Hamlet (1973/2018)
• The Music-Makers (1968)
• Music Man, The: Highlights (as arranger)
• My Heart is Filled With Longing (as arranger) (c. 1710/1986)
• Nimrod (as arranger) (1899/1965)
• Northern Legend, A
• Ode for Trumpet (1956)
• Othello (1977)
• Our Father Who Art in Heaven (as arranger)
• Pilgrim's Chorus (as arranger) (1845/1991)
• The Pledge of Allegiance (1970)
• Praise Jerusalem! (1986)
• Prelude IV (as arranger) (1983)
• Prelude and Capriccio (1978)
• Presentation of the Silver Rose (as arranger)
• Punchinello (1974)
• Radetzky March (as arranger) (1993)
• Rahoon (1965)
• Ramparts of Courage, The
• Rosalind in the Forest of Arden (2005)
• Rushmore (1981)
• Russian Christmas Music (1944)
• Russian Christmas Music (arr. Curnow) (1944/1990)
• Seascape: A Dramatic Intermezzo for Solo Baritone (Trombone) and Band
• Second Century
• Second Suite for Band (1980)
• Serenade (1966)
• The Severn Suite (1973)
• Siciliana Notturno (1977)
• Silver Shadow (Concert March)
• Sine Nomine (as arranger) (1906/1976)
• Sixth Suite for Band
• Slavonic Folk Suite
• Springtime Celebration, A
• Symphonic Prelude (1963)
• Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1967)
• Symphony No. 3 (1988)
  • Variations on the Porazzi Theme of Wagner
• Symphony No. 4
• Sumus Futuro
• Tarantella (1996)
• Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" (as arranger) (1963)
• Third Suite For Band
• Three Chorales (as arranger; ed. McAlister) (?/2013)
• Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra (1984)
• Thunder and Lightning
• The Tsar's Farewell (as arranger) (2001)
• Twelfth Night (2003)
• Two Bagatelles (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1983/1997/2010)
• Two Bagatelles for Brass Ensemble and Percussion (1995)
• Two Bagatelles for Concert Band
• Two Bagatelles for Four Trombones
• Vilia
• Viva Musica! (1984)
• With Trumpets And Drums

Resources

• Perusal score
• Reed, A. (1993). Fourth Suite: (City of Music) [score]. C.L. Barnhouse: Oskaloosa, Iowa