Marche Écossaise (tr. Onodera) (octet)
Claude Debussy (arr. Makato Onodera)
Subtitle: Sur un thème populaire
General Info
Year: 1891 / 1908 / 2012
Duration: c. 7:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano four-hands
Publisher: Bravo Music
Cost: Score and Parts – (Print) $36.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III (I doubling E-flat Soprano Clarinet)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In 1891, Claude Debussy accepted an odd commission from a Scottish general named Meredith Reid, a descendant of the 'Lords of Ross'. He asked him to write a march using a traditional melody associated with the Ross clan. Debussy complied with a piece for piano four-hands. In 1908 he made an orchestral version.
The result is hardly an ordinary march. The main melody fits that description, but Debussy subjects it to constant transformation. The music very gradually reassembles and builds intensity, leading to a rousing conclusion, probably the only part of the composition that met General Reid's expectations.
- Program Note from Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music
This arrangement for woodwind octet was commissioned by Shiba Higashi Junior High School Band in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture (director: Mr. Sankichi Tozaki), and was arranged for performance in the 2011 ensemble contest.
- Program Note by composer, translated with DeepL Translator
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Symphony Band Chamber Players (David Thornton, conductor) - 26 March 2021
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette Chamber Ensemble (Trent Gaspard, conductor) - 8 April 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Danse (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa)
- Golliwog's Cakewalk (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1908)
All Wind Works
- The Afternoon of a Faun (arr. Walters) (1894/1950/1999?)
- The Afternoon of a Faun. See also: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
- Beau Soir (arr. Warner) (1880/1971)
- Children's Corner Suite (arr. Winterbottom) (1908)
- Clair de Lune (orch. Blair) (1890/1905/2021)
- Clair de Lune (arr. Hautvast) (1890/1905/2011)
- Clair de lune (arr. De Meij) (1890/1905/2017)
- Clair de Lune (arr. Wallace) (1890/1905/1995)
- Danse (arr. Boyd) (1890/1983)
- Danse (arr. Scheiwiller) (1890/2019)
- Danse (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa)
- Danses Sacrée et Profane (arr. Odom) (1904/2019)
- Danses Sacrée et Profane (tr. J. Lloyd) (1904)
- Debussy: Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Akey) (1910/1995)
- The Engulfed Cathedral (tr. Longfield) (1910/1987)
- The Engulfed Cathedral (arr. Miller) (1910/1986)
- The Engulfed Cathedral (tr. Patterson) (1910/1993)
- The Engulfed Cathedral. See also: La Cathédrale Engloutie
- Fêtes from "Nocturnes" (arr. Patterson) (c. 1899/2007)
- Fêtes from "Three Nocturnes" (arr. Schaefer) (c.1899/1959)
- Fêtes from "Three Nocturnes" (tr. Tatebe) (c.1899/1999)
- Four Debussy Songs (trans. Anderson) (2018)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (tr. Beyrent) (1910/2013)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (tr. Brand) (1910)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (tr. Bernotas) (1910)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Moss) (1910/2007)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Sparke) (1910/2007)
- Golliwogg's Cakewalk (arr. Lewis) (1908/2004)
- Golliwog's Cakewalk (arr. Curnow) (1908/1985)
- Golliwog's Cakewalk (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1908)
- Hommage à Rameau (arr. Hunsberger) (1905/2009)
- La Cathédrale Engloutie (arr. Mortimer) (1910/2016)
- La Cathédrale Engloutie. See also: The Engulfed Cathedral
- La Mer (trans. Odom) (1905/)
- Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (1911)
- L’isle joyeuse (arr. Mashima) (1904/2005)
- L'isle joyeuse (arr. Volans) (1904/1995)
- Marche Écossaise (tr. Onodera) (1891/1908/2015(?))
- Marche Écossaise (tr. Onodera) (Octet) (1891/1908/2015(?))
- Marche Écossaise (tr. Schaefer) (1891/1908/1964)
- Marche Écossaise (tr. Scatterday) (1891/1908)
- 'Menuet' from Suite Bergamasque (arr. Southard) (1890/2012)
- Minstrels (tr. Scarbrough) (1910/2016)
- Pagodes from "Estampes" (arr. Grainger) (1996)
- Petite Suite (arr. Brakkee) (1889/1999?)
- Petite Suite (tr. Winterbottom) (1889/1927)
- Petite Suite (arr. Kimura) (1889/1998)
- Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (tr. Sousa) (1894)
- Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune. See also: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and The Afternoon of a Faun
- Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (arr. Stalmeieir) (1894/1992)
- Prelude from "Suite Bergamasque" (arr. St. Louis)
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (tr. Hindsley) (1894/1973)
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. See also: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
- Premiere Arabesque (1891)
- Première Rhapsodie (arr. Yodo)
- Première Rhapsody (tr. Baars) (1910/12016)
- Première Rhapsody (arr. Walker; ed. Pappas) (1910/1963/2004)
- Reverie (arr. Boo) (1890/)
- Rêverie (tr. Thompson) (1890/2011)
- Sarabande (tr. Bennefield) (1894/1901/2020)
- Sarabande (tr. Erickson) (1894/1967)
- Sarabande (arr. Howland; ed. Gregory) (1894/2018)
- Suite Bergamasque Mvt 2 Menuet (arr. Thompson)
- Three Debussy Pieces (arr. Singletary)
- Three Pieces from "Children's Corner" (orch. Sheen) (1908/1988)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Claude Debussy." Accessed 26 July 2019
- Perusal score