Neoncore
Subtitle: For flex ensemble and fixed media
From Suite Treats
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 1:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Jennifer Jolley
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Piccolo/Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Trumpet
- Violin
Part 2
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Violin
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Horn in F
- Viola
Part 4
- Bassoon
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Horn in F
- Cello
Part 5
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- String Bass
Percussion:
- High (Tambourine, H-Hat, etc.)
- Medium (Snare Drum, etc.)
- Low (Bass Drum, etc.)
Funk track
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
I zoomed with Mitch Evett and Josh Murphy, the Rio Americano High School's directors in Sacramento, California, in December 2020 to discuss writing a flex piece for their students. After nine months of COVID isolation, I admitted to them that I just wanted to create something bright and sparkly, something that would have a glossy Instagram glow. I wanted to write something that the students would call a "bop."
Because the school was located in Northern California (the birthplace of Buchla synthesizers), I wanted the students to work with a simulated analog synthesizer. When we all zoomed together with the students the next month, I demonstrated the modular synthesizer and introduced them to a red-paneled 16-step sequencer. "You're going to pick sixteen notes together as a class," I instructed. "I'm going to include this in your piece." They, in turn, requested that I make the piece "crazy," just like their band room in pre-pandemic times. What you will hear is a piece that uses the students' sixteen-note sequence as a bass ostinato, which I tweaked to make it sound more "jazzy" and "funky."
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, O.) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Richard Edwards, conductor) - 12 February 2022
- Rio Band - 8 February 2022
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Ash (Adaptable Band) (arr. Dunnigan) (2018/2020)
- Last Stage to Red Rock (Adaptable Band) (2016/2020)
- Lichtweg/Lightway (Adaptable Band) (arr. Bove) (2017/2020)
- Neoncore (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Neoncore. See also: Suite Treats
- Sounds from the Grey Goo Sars CoV-2 (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Ash (2018)
- Ash (Adaptable Band) (arr. Dunnigan) (2018/2020)
- Blue Glacier Decoy (2018)
- Dust (2023)
- The Eyes of the World Are Upon You (2017)
- Last Stage to Red Rock (2016)
- Last Stage to Red Rock (Adaptable Band) (2016/2020)
- Lichtweg/Lightway (2017)
- Lichtweg/Lightway (Adaptable Band) (arr. Bove) (2017/2020)
- MARCH! (2021)
- Motordom (2009)
- Neoncore (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Neoncore. See also: Suite Treats
- Never Forget, Never Remember (2017)
- Questions to Heaven (2021)
- Son of a Gun (2019)
- Sounds from the Grey Goo Sars CoV-2 (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Think About It (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass Falls (2014)
- The Walkup (2018)
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- Perusal score
- Jennifer Jolley website Accessed 29 December 2018