Little Tango Music, A (flex)
Subtitle: For Flexible Wind Band with Adaptable Parts
General Info
Year: 2007 / 2020
Duration: c. 5:00
Difficulty: II+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: G & M Brand through C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - Available January 2021
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Flute
- 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
- B-flat Trumpet
- 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
Percussion I-II, including:
- Castanets (or Woodblock)
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Tom-tom
- Triangle
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A Little Tango Music (2007) is a short sequence of melodies inspired by the curvaceous, melancholic and dangerous dance from Argentina that is the tango. I have always been greatly inspired by the tango in all its guises, ranging from the Habanera in Bizet’s Carmen, through its more mysterious deployment in the music of Debussy and Ravel, and a more satirical approach adopted by Stravinsky and Kurt Weill, and perhaps most vividly conveyed in the seductively violent music of Astor Piazzolla. This miniature suite of three movements attempts to show in a trio of snapshots the varied moods and colors of the tango.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Dubuque (Iowa) Wind Ensemble (Nolan Hauta, conductor) - 13 October 2023
- California State University, Stanislaus, Wind Ensemble (Stuart Sims, conductor) - 7 December 2021
- Saginaw Valley State University (University Center, Mich.) Wind Ensemble (Norm Wika, conductor) - 7 October 2021
- Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) Symphonic Band (Joseph Higgins, conductor) - 4 March 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- A Little Tango Music (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
All Wind Works
- Adrenaline City (2006)
- African Samba (2006)
- Ascent (1996/2004)
- Awayday (1996)
- Awayday (arr. Wintringham) (1999/2015)
- Battle Symphony (1999)
- Bells Across the Atlantic (2013)
- Bermuda Triangle (1994)
- Bohemian Revelry (2013)
- Bohemian Revelry: For Chamber Ensemble (2013/2021)
- Bohemian Revelry (tr. Holland) (2013/2017)
- Bridgewater Breeze (1996)
- Candlelight Procession (2001)
- Concerto for Violin, Viola and Wind Ensemble (2022)
- Dances from Crete (2003)
- Downtown Diversions (2000)
- Eine Kleine Walzermusik (2009)
- Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (2003)
- Elements (1998)
- Euphonium Concerto 1997
- Farewell (2008)
- French Dances Revisited (2004)
- A Little Salsa Music
- A Little Tango Music (2007)
- Love Transforming (2013)
- Metropolis (1992)
- Midnight in Buenos Aires (2007)
- Out of the Darkness (2023)
- Parade of the Wooden Warriors (1999)
- Pikes Peak (2017)
- Repercussions (2011)
- Scenes from an English Landscape
- Scenes from Bruegel (1994)
- Suite for Winds (1993)
- Summer Dances (2012)
- Sunrise and Safari (2006)
- Symphony No. 1 in C (2000)
- Three Way Suite
- Towards Nirvana (2002)
- Tranquility (2009)
- Viderunt Omnes (2014)
- Yiddish Dances (1997)
- Yiddish Dances (Chamber) (1997/2020)
Resources
- Adam Gorb website Accessed 14 December 2020
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- Dunker, Amy. Analysis of A Little Tango Music
- Gorb, A. (2007). A Little Tango Music [score]. G&M Brand: Wingrave, Eng.