Gambol
Subtitle: For Flexible Wind Band with Adaptable Parts
General Info
Year: 2020
Duration: c. 4:25
Difficulty: IV+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Piccolo (optional)
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
Part 2
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Horn in F
Part 4
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- Horn in F
Part 5
- Bassoon
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Horn in F
- Trombone
- Euphonium
Part 6
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- String Bass
Keyboard (any)
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes (optional)
- Claves (or Woodblock)
- Crash Cymbals
- Tambourine
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
During this time of the COVID-19 pandemic (summer, 2020) many of my composition colleagues have successfully created flex band instrumentations/transcriptions of previously composed band works. Since orchestration is part of my compositional process, especially in more difficult works, I found it futile to try and transcribe one of my pre-existing works for flex band. Therefore, I was delighted when Nathan Daughtrey, new president of C. Alan Publications, requested a grade 4-5 level work for flex band from me. The result was Gambol.
The term “gambol” means “a skipping or leaping about in play”. The work is in 6 parts (plus 4 percussion) and its original conception was based on the opening three 7/8 bars, which offer all three 7/8 subdivisions. The work incorporates canonic and fugal elements along with Copland-esque harmonies in sections.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- West Valley High School (Yakima, Wash.) Wind Ensemble (Kirk Knight, conductor) - 8 March 2023
- Modesto (Calif.) Junior College Symphonic Band (Erik Maki, conductor) - 29 November 2021
- University of Rhode Island (Kingston) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Roger Cichy, conductor) - 24 october 2021
- High Point (N.C.) University Wind Ensemble (Brian Meixner, conductor) - 27 April 2021
- Penn State University (University Park) Campus Band (Tristan Blankenship, conductor) - 27 April 2021
- University of North Texas (Denton) Concert Band 1 (Robert Truan, conductor) - 24 February 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
All Wind Works
- AirLink (2009)
- Aloft! (1997)
- Antithigram (1977/1988)
- As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
- Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
- Bandancing (2004)
- Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
- The Beltway Jam (2006)
- Border Dance (2021)
- Cage Dance (2020)
- Capriccio (2023)
- Cenotaph (1992)
- Cheers! (1995)
- Chorale and Toccata (1993)
- Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
- Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
- Claw's Clause
- Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
- Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
- Divertimento in F (1995)
- Down East Fanfare (2003)
- Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
- Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
- Ellacombe Variations
- Encomium (2022)
- Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
- Escapade (2007)
- Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
- Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
- Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
- Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
- Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
- Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
- The Final Beguine (2018)
- Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
- Forefathers
- Four Maryland Songs (2000)
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
- Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
- I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
- In Final Obedience (1994)
- In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
- In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
- Infamy
- Iridium
- Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
- Jigsaw for Tenor Saxophone and Band
- Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
- Miniature Overture (2010)
- Nagrobek
- Navigating Cresson
- No Brief Candle (2019)
- Panhandle Prelude (2013)
- Parkway Jam Fanfare
- Past the Equinox
- Pastime (1999)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
- Prayer and Jubilation
- Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
- Psalm 150 (2013)
- Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
- Repetend
- Ricercare (2001)
- Rondeau
- Rondo alla BCP (2023)
- San Luis Snapshots (2016)
- Scenes from Terezin (2009)
- Skyline
- A Song of Hope (2013)
- Southpaw (2014)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
- Stranger at My Door (2021)
- Symphony No. 1 (2006)
- Three Places in England
- Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
- Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
- Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
- With Trump and Wing
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- Jack Stamp website Accessed 22 August 2020