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March Tumbao
General Info
Year: 2020
Duration: c. 3:25
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Piccolo (optional)
- 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
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bongos
- Cabasa
- China Cymbals
- Claves
- Guiro
- Maracas
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Timbales
- Triangle
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
March Tumbao is an amalgam of the rhythmic styles of the Afro-Cuban tradition with the American march forms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The “tumbao” is the principal bass rhythm found in Afro-Cuban dance music and is also a term roughly similar to “swing” in jazz (i.e., the ineffable rhythmic sense of satisfying motion). This cross-cultural combination is far from new as the incomparable Jelly Roll Morton would incorporate Afro-Latin rhythms that he called “the Spanish tinge” into his works which used traditional march or ragtime form.
Besides the tumbao, the cascara, son clave, montuno, and other characteristic rhythms are utilized throughout my composition. The form incorporates all of the typical elements of American marches and rags including a boisterous introduction, a syncopated binary first section, a tuneful trio section, the break strain or dogfight, and a virtuosic woodwind obbligato in the final trio statement.
This work is dedicated to Bob Margolis whose Fantasia Nova inspired me as well as Dr. Richard Mayne (University of Northern Colorado, retired) who always loves a good march.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Otterbein University (Westerville, Ohio) Wind Ensemble (Michael S. Yonchak, conductor) - 12 October 2022
- University of Iowa (Iowa City) University Band (Myron Peterson, conductor) - 2 May 2022
- Penn State University (University Park) Campus Band (Michquelena Potlunas Ferguson, conductor) - 27 April 2021
- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Concert Band Chamber Players (Arris Golden, conductor) - 21 April 2021
- Ball State University (Muncie, Ind.) Wind Symphony (Adam Friedrich, conductor) - 20 April 2021
- McClellan College (Waco, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Jon Conrad, conductor) - 4 March 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Lookfar (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- March Tumbao (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Menlo Park, 1879 (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Zephyrus (Flex instrumentation) (2019)
All Wind Works
- All Dark Is Now No More (2014)
- Auto '66 (2011)
- Big Four on the River (2014)
- Bright Window (2005)
- Codex Gigas. See: Symphony No. 1
- Dymaxion (2021)
- Flying Jewels (2021)
- From the Shaken Tower: Symphony for Percussion and Winds (2014)
- Ghosts of the Old Year (2016)
- Heartland Verses (2019)
- I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (2017)
- Lookfar (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- March Tumbao (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Menlo Park, 1879 (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Message from Arecibo (2023)
- Octarine Spark (2009)
- Pavillons en L'Air (2009)
- Sinfonietta No 1 (2004)
- Sinfonietta No 3: "Strange and Mysterious Waters" (2010)
- Swing Landscape (2018)
- Symphony No. 1 (2020)
- Troublesome Fire (2022)
- Two-Lane Blacktop (2013)
- Urban Light (2021)
- With Soul Serene (2019)
- Zephyrus (Flex instrumentation) (2019)
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- James M. David website Accessed 16 December 2020
- Perusal score