Highbridge Excursions
General Info
Year: 1995
Duration: c. 4:55
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00; (digital) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
Movements
1. Song of the Lake
2. Festive Dance
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute I
Flute II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
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
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece was commissioned by the Fayetteville-Manilius (N.Y.) Education Foundation for the Wellwood and Eagle Hill Middle School Bands, and was first performed on March 14, 1995, with the composer conducting. Song of the Lake is in a British folk-song style. Festive Dance is a rollicking fun-filled bit of time travel. It progresses from the Medieval and Renaissance sounds of the opening to the juicy polychords of the finale.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class CC
- Georgia: III
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP III
- Louisiana: II
- Michigan: Senior High C
- North Carolina: III
- New York: Concert Band III
- Oklahoma: III-A
- South Carolina: IIII
- Tennessee: IV
- Virginia: III
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Tar River Community Band (Greenville, N.C.) (James E. Mauser, Jr., conductor) - 25 March 2023
- Highland Park High School Honor Band – 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- 1812 Overture (as arranger) (1880/1997)
- Ave Verum Corpus (as arranger) (1791/2006)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (as arranger, with Althouse) (1861/1997)
- Barber of Seville, The (as arranger)
- Beethoven's Fifth Christmas
- Capriccio Espagnol (as arranger) (1887/1993)
- Cardiff Castle (2000)
- Cascade Festival Overture (1994)
- Cedar Canyon Roundup (2002)
- Celebration Fanfare (1998)
- Colonel Bogey (as arranger) (1914/2001)
- Elizabethan Dance (2008)
- Fantasy on "Yankee Doodle" (1995)
- Finale from Symphony No. 1 (as arranger) (1862-76/2008)
- Finale from Symphony No. 2 (as arranger) (1872/1880/2002)
- Friday Harbor (2001)
- Grant County Celebration (1991)
- Greenwillow Portrait (1988)
- Hawkeye Festival Overture (2006)
- Highbridge Excursions (1995)
- Highland Park Overture (1991)
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (as arranger) (1853/2001)
- Korean Hill Song (2000)
- Largo from "New World Symphony" (as arranger) (1893/2007)
- The Last Rose of Summer (as arranger) (1813/2006)
- Mallet Maniacs (2003)
- March to the Big Top (1995)
- Nessun Dorma (as arranger) (1926/2000)
- Night in the Tropics (as arranger) (1859/2001)
- Night on Bald Mountain (as arranger) (1867/1991)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem (as arranger) (2007)
- Plaza de Toros (1997)
- Plaza Park Escapades (1994)
- Primordium (1999)
- Riverside Rag (1988)
- Russian Sailors' Dance (as arranger) (1927/1998)
- Santa at the Symphony (as arranger) (1990)
- Santa Meets Sousa (1992)
- Scenes of Wonder (1994)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/1998)
- Southgate Fantasy (1995)
- Tunbridge Meadows (1992)
- Twenty Carols in 2 Minutes (as arranger) (1998)
- Two Classic Miniatures (as arranger) (1991)
- Variants on a Nautical Hymn (1993)
- A Winter's Carol (as arranger) (1996)
- Zuni Legend (1993)
Resources
- "Mark Williams." Alfred Music. Web. Accessed 10 September 2021
- Miles, Richard B. 2000. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 3. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 230-233.
- Perusal score
- Williams, M. (1995). Highbridge Excursions [score]. Alfred Publishing: Van Nuys, Calif.