Open the Door!
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 2:00
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $48.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone/Euphonium/Bassoon
Tuba
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Temple Blocks
- Tom-Tom (2)
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Composed as a decidedly descriptive piece, Open the Door! contains an insistent percussion part that imitates a knock on a door that gets louder and louder as the piece progresses and grows in intensity.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Little Acorns (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- The Mouse King (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pursuit (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Shell Game (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Takin' It Easy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Alone Yet Not Alone (arr. Graham) (2013)
- American Hero (2001)
- A Celebration Overture (2014)
- Concerto for Tuba and Winds (1987)
- Concerto for Piccolo and Wind Ensemble (orch. Bass) (1992/2005)
- Concerto for Trumpet, Euphonium, and Band
- Dinosaurs (Broughton) (1992)
- Excursions for Trumpet and Band (1995)
- Fanfare for 16 Horns (2015)
- Fanfares, Marches, Hymns & Finale (2003)
- Flourishes (2022)
- From Sea to Shining Sea
- Frontier Overture, A (1982)
- Goin' for the Gold (2020)
- Grimm Tales (2023)
- Harlequin (1984)
- Heliotrope Bouquet
- Hornworks
- In the World of Spirits (2012)
- Jag: Theme (2002)
- Little Acorns (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Masters of Space and Time
- The Mouse King (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- New Era (2010)
- Oliver's Birthday (1998/2008)
- Open the Door! (2018)
- Overture to "Miracle on 34th Street" (arr. Vinson) (2007)
- Pursuit (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Quaternity (2019)
- Shell Game (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Silverado (1985)
- A Southern Jubilee (2019)
- Spacious Skies (2017)
- Takin' It Easy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Tent Meeting Revival (2014)
- Terry Takes a Walk (2022)
- Themes from "Silverado" (arr. Morsch) (1985)
- Turbulence (2013/2016)
Resources
- Bruce Broughton website Accessed 20 August 2018
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist. August 2018, 24.
- Perusal score