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High Voltage
Contents
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 2:15
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00; (digital) - $50.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00
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
Euphonium
Tuba
Synthesizer
Sound FX
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- China Cymbals
- Cowbell
- Crash Cymbals
- Marimba
- Ride Cymbal
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Block (2)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Stun your students and audience with this electrifying work that uses vivid sound effects to create a thundering soundscape. You'll harness the raw power of electricity with the exciting rhythms, clever percussion writing, a very approachable synthesizer part, and a myriad of thunder and electrical sounds that will add a new dimension to your program. Batteries not required!
- Program Note by publisher
We live in an electric world. Our homes, our phones, our televisions, our games, our music, and our lives are all tied to this source of energy. It has the power to create and destroy. It is truly one of the most awesome forces in our universe. High Voltage attempts to convey the energy and excitement of electricity racing across the sky, across wires, and across the world.
When conceiving this piece, I knew that I wanted to incorporate electronic effects to enhance the meaning and programmatic nature of the work. This work uses both a synthesizer and a set of sound effects to help create the aural experience for both the audience and the player. The work may be successfully performed without either of these effects, but it will definitely lose some of its, if you will pardon the pun, “spark”.
This work was commissioned by the Lake Hamilton band program (Pearcy, Ark.) and the Sheridan band program (Sheridan, Ark.) for a joint performance of their beginning bands.
- Program Note from Arbor Creek Middle School Honors Band concert program, 22 December 2017
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Arbor Creek Middle School (Carrollton, Tx.) Honors Band (Rylon Guidry, conductor) - 22 December 2017 (2017 Midwest Clinic)
- Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Concert Band – 14 December 2017
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
- Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Fanfare for the 16th Empire (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Hillside March (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
- Shadow Cove March (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Snake Charmer (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Adrenaline Engines (2010)
- Afterburn (2009)
- Aggressivo (2013)
- Aggressivo (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Alarm (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Angelic Celebrations (2014)
- Argentum (2015)
- Armory (2016)
- Art(isms) I: Pointallism
- Art(isms) II: Surrealism
- Art(isms) III: Abstract Expressionism
- Battlesong
- Bazaar (2017)
- Beginners Rock! (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- The Boom Boom Galop (2017)
- Brave Spirit (2015)
- Brighton Camp March (2012)
- Buffalo Island March
- Celebration (2016)
- Celebration Tribalesque (2011)
- Celebrations for Christmas (as arranger) (2020)
- A Christmas Bell Carol (2018)
- A Christmas Fanfare
- A Christmas Flourish (2017)
- A Christmas Tale (2016)
- Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (2014)
- Companion of My Voice (2015)
- Danse Bohemien (2010)
- Danse Carnivale (2013)
- Dark Ride (2018)
- Dark Ride (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Darklands Symphony
- Darklands March (2014)
- Darklands March (Flex instrumentation) (2014/2020)
- Darklands Legends (2017)
- DarkHeart (2016)
- Daybreak March
- Deus Ex Machina (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- The Dragon Lord (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Earthdawn (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- El Zorro Rojo (2019)
- Extremis (2015)
- Fanfare for the 16th Empire (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- A Festival of Carols (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Fields of Clover
- Folk Suite for Beginning Band
- Four (2017)
- Frogs (2018)
- Gadget (2012)
- Galactic Fanfare (2018)
- Gently Blows the Summer Wind (2008)
- Gestures (2019)
- Grace
- Half-Past One
- Havana Nights (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Her Majesty's Brigade
- High Voltage (2017)
- Hillside March (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Holiday Galop, A (as arranger) (2013)
- Imaginarium (2015)
- In Late November
- In Simple Faith (as arranger) (2018)
- In the Paths of Truth and Grace (2015)
- In These Last Days of Autumn (2016)
- Iron and Ice (2017)
- IronHeart (2014)
- Kinetic Dances (2015)
- Life's Railway (2018)
- Little Suite for Band (2014)
- Lullabye (Waltz for Band)
- Lux Spiritus (2018)
- Metalheads (2016)
- Metrodance (2012)
- Morpheus (2016)
- New Era Fanfare (2013)
- The Nine (2018)
- Ode to Joy
- On a Catalonian Carol (as arranger) (2016)
- Pandora
- Portent
- A Prayer Before Nightfall
- Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
- Rage
- Ridge Spirit Fanfare
- A Rollicking Hannukah (2018)
- Rowan Tree, The (as arranger) (2010)
- Ruckus (2014)
- Shadow Cove March (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Skygazer Fanfare (2015)
- Snake Charmer (2009)
- Snake Charmer (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Snow Angels (2014/2017)
- Starfire Fanfare (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Stonewall: 1969 (2019)
- Steel (2011)
- Still, Still, Still (as arranger) (2011)
- Tanchōzuru (2016)
- That Old Hound Dog Rag (2009)
- To Horizons Unseen (2019)
- Towercrest March
- Undecim (2015)
- Under the Cherry Blossoms (2018)
- Union Street March
- Vanishing Point (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Victory Parade March
- When the Spring Rain Begins to Fall (2013)
- Whiplash (2014)
- Winds of Change (2016)
- The Witching Hour (2014)
- With Every Winter's Breath (2012)
- Wolverine Summer (2018)
- A Yuletide Festival
- Zooveniers
Resources
- Perusal score
- Randall Standridge website Accessed 8 August 2017