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Subtitle: Dog Sled Race
Contents
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 5:35
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00; (digital) - $75.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by the West Vancouver Youth Band, this energetic programmatic movement (the third movement of Portraits of the North) captures the adventurous excitement of the Alaskan Iditarod (a 1,000-mile dog sled race) through the icy Alaskan tundra. The work possesses a very positive, infectious energy akin to background music from a superb action movie.
- Program Note from The Instrumentalist
The annual Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race between the Alaskan cities of Anchorage and Nome covers over 1000 challenging miles of jagged mountain ranges, dense forests and windswept coastlines. In cinematic fashion, the musical point of view cuts back and forth between the dogs' view and an eagle's, constantly moving forward with a relentless pulse. With a brief respite, a majestic, sweeping theme is introduced and develops, and then, back to the race! With renewed energy, the dogs run the final stretch; the music building and intensifying to the very end.
- Program Note by publisher
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Parkland College (Champaign, Ill.) Wind Ensemble (Jonathan Beckett, conductor)– 28 April 2018
- North Toronto Collegiate Institute Symphonic Band 1 May 2014
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
All Wind Works
- Cathedral Grove
- Codebreaker
- Continuum (2011)
- December
- Doctor Who (as arranger) (2016)
- Eagle Song (as arranger) (2018)
- Echo Lake
- Echoes of the Silent (2018)
- Excerpts from "The Rite of Spring" (as arranger)
- Fantasy on the Huron Carol
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- Free Running (2012)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
- Hymn to Freedom (as arranger) (1962/2017)
- I Am the Doctor (as arranger)
- Jitterbug! (2018)
- LOL (2016)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
- Pacifica (Buckley)
- Portraits of the North
- Arctic Fire (2014)
- Land of the Midnight Sun
- Iditarod (2013)
- Postcard from England (2014)
- Postcard from Pittsburgh (2013)
- Prestidigitation (2016)
- Procession of the Sorcerers
- ReBoot
- Red Sky
- Rock It Science
- The Seas of the Moon
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Thunderbird
- Undercurrents (2016)
- Walking to the Sky (2016)
- Windjammer (2011)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Robert Buckley." Accessed 15 January 2016
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist 70.5 (2015): 50. Print
