Octeto para Vientos

Roberto Sierra

Subtitle: Octet for Winds

General Info

Year: 2003
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Subito Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00

Movements

1. Obertura
2. Salseado
3. Ecos
4. Danzante
5. Tonos
6. Columnas
7. Colores
8. Escaleas y algunos arpegios
9. Finale

Instrumentation

Full Score
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Octeto is very representative of Sierra’s style “fresh and personal melodic lines with sparkling harmonies and striking rhythms”, according to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

- Program Note from WASBE

Media

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.) Wind Ensemble (Mark Scatterday, conductor) – 18 February 2019

Works for Winds by This Composer

Alegría (tr. Scatterday) (2010)
Carnaval (tr. Scatterday) (2012)
Concerto for Saxophones (arr. Scatterday) (2000/2018)
Diferencias (1997)
Fandangos (tr. Scatterday) (2001)
Fanfarría (2002)
Montuno (arr. Spinazzola) (2013/2015)
Octeto para Vientos (2003)
Poema y Danza (2018)
Rapsodia (1996)
Sinfonía No. 3 (tr. Scatterday)

Resources

"OCTETO by Robert Sierra (Puerto Rico)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 28 December 2020). Accessed 14 January 2023
Roberto Sierra website Accessed 17 September 2017
Sierra, R. (2003). Octeto: Para Vientos (2003) [score]. Subito Music Corporation: Verona, N.J.