|
Please DONATE to help with maintenance and upkeep of the Wind Repertory Project!
|
Masquerade (Sparke)
Contents
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Anglo Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $139.00 | Score Only - $28.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Synth Harp
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Masquerade was commissioned by Stadtmusik Willisau from Switzerland (Reto Güdel, conductor) to celebrate their 175th anniversary in 2003 and first performed by them in November that year.
1. Overture. The first movement opens with a fanfare-like figure, featuring the brass, before the main them is introduced over staccato chords. After a short, syncopated interlude a legato theme is introduced in the tenor register and material is developed until the music slows temporarily. The opening theme returns and the ‘tenor’ tune is taken up by the whole band until the opening fanfare returns to close the movement.
2. Elegy. The slow movement opens intensely with a bare two-part theme, which leads to a passionate chorale-style melody. A second theme is introduced and leads to a climax, a return of the chorale theme and a pianissimo repeat which again leads to a full-band climax. The two-part theme returns quietly to create a peaceful close.
3. Interlude. A short movement which changes the mood to introduce:
4. Finale. Three violent chords preface a lively syncopated opening theme. The trumpets introduce a second idea, which is treated fugally, and this in turn leads to the main melodic idea of the movement, over staccato chords. A contrasting subject is then introduced in the middle of the band, followed by echoes of the first movement fanfare. The opening theme returns and material is revisited until the opening fanfare returns in full to end the work triumphantly.
- Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Atlantic Odyssey (2010)
- Ballad for Benny (2001)
- Bandwagon
- Barn Dance and Cowboy Hymn (1982)
- Beethoven's Greeting
- Between the Two Rivers (2003)
- Big Sky Overture
- Blazon
- A Bluegrass Overture (2017)
- Bolero (as arranger) (1928/2011)
- Cambridge Intrada
- The Camelot Chronicles
- Carnival
- Carol of the Shepherds
- Celebration (1993)
- The Centurion (1988/2000)
- Chorale and Variations
- Clarinet Calypso
- Colorado Springs (2007)
- A Colour Symphony (2015)
- Concert Prelude (1976/2000)
- Concertino Classico (2010)
- Concerto for Clarinet
- Dance Movements (1995)
- Deserts (2008)
- Diamond Concerto (2012)
- Diversions - Variations on a Swiss Folk Song
- Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
- Earth, Water, Sun, Wind (2000)
- An English Sea Song Suite
- Euphonium Concerto No. 2
- Exultation (2010)
- Fanfare for Saint Cecilia (2008)
- Fanfare, Romance and Finale
- Fantasy for Euphonium
- A Festive Tribute (J.S. Bach)
- Fiesta! (1998)
- Fiesta de la Vida
- Five Festive Fanfares
- Flying the Breeze (2002/2004)
- Four Norfolk Dances (2001)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (as arranger) (1910/2007)
- Hail the Dragon! (2010)
- Harlequin (2004)
- Hanover Festival (2000)
- A Huntingdon Celebration (2003)
- Infinity and Beyond...
- Invictus
- Jubilee Overture (1983)
- A Klezmer Karnival (2004)
- The Land of the Long White Cloud (1980/1988)
- A Lindisfarne Rhapsody (1998)
- Madrigalum (2006)
- Marchissimo (2004)
- Mary's Boy Child (as arranger)
- Masquerade
- Merry-Go-Round (2002)
- Morning Song (2002)
- Music for a Festival (1985)
- Music of the Spheres (2004)
- Navigation Inn
- Once in Royal David’s City (as arranger)
- Orient Express (1987)
- Out of the Darkness, Into the Light
- Overture for Woodwinds (2000)
- Panis Angelicus (as arranger) (1872/2001)
- Pantomime (1988/1996)
- Pastime with Good Company (as arranger) (15--?/2005)
- Postcard from Singapore (2004)
- The Pioneers (2005)
- A Quiet Moment
- Reflections
- Reflections on an Old Japanese Folk Song (2015)
- The Roaring Forties (2008)
- Sailing with the Tall Ships (2012)
- Salute to a Hero (2009)
- Scenes from a Comedy
- The Seasons (2005)
- Shalom! (2001)
- Sierra Nevada (2006)
- Sinfonietta No. 1
- Sinfonietta No. 2
- Sinfonietta No. 3 (2001)
- Sleepers, Awake! (as transcriber)
- Song and Dance (1984)
- Sounds of the Saint Lawrence
- Spirit of the Sequoia (2004)
- Strathcarron (2002)
- Suite from Hymn of the Highlands
- The Sun Will Rise Again (2011)
- Sunrise at Angel's Gate (2001)
- Symphonic Metamorphosis (2007)
- Symphony No. 1. See: Earth, Water, Sun, Wind
- Symphony No. 3. See: A Colour Symphony
- Tales of the River Wye (2007)
- Tallis' Canon (arr. Sparke) (/2012)
- Tameside Overture
- Te Deum Prelude (as arranger)
- Ten Chorale Preludes (as arranger) (1914/2002)
- Theatre Music
- Three English Folk Song Miniatures (2013)
- Three Klezmer Miniatures (2009)
- Three Washington Statues (2015)
- To a New Dawn (2000)
- To a Wild Rose (as arranger)
- Tokyo Triptych
- Trombone Concerto (2007)
- Valerius Variations (2005)
- Victory Fanfare
- A Weekend in New York (2008)
- The White Rose (2002)
- Wilten Festival Overture
- A Winter's Tale (2010)
- Year of the Dragon (1984/1985)
- Year of the Dragon (2017 edition) (1984/1985/2017)
- A Yorkshire Overture (1991)
