Outsider
General Info
Year: 2006
Duration: c. 11:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Don Freund
Cost: Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $245.00 | Score Only (print) - $29.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra-Alto Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Piccolo B-flat Trumpet
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Flugelhorn (in Bb) I-II
French Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Trombone III (bass)
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Anvil
- Bass Drum
- Bongos (4)
- Brake Drum (2)
- Cymbals (2 chinese, 3 staccato, 1 small suspended, 1 large suspended)
- Glockenspiel
- Gong (pitched in C)
- Marimba
- Metal Plates (3)
- Ratchet (large)
- Slit Drum
- Tam-Tam (small, medium, large)
- Tom-Toms (4 high, 4 low)
- Temple Blocks (5)
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Wood Blocks (4)
- Wood Chimes
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The title Outsider suggests a character that is rough and outside the mainstream, unsheltered and ready to face the forces of nature head-on. This character is captured in music featuring insistent melodic figures articulated in relentless sixteenth notes. One tempo pervades the entire 11-minute work: "not fast, but always with a feeling of surging forward."
- Program Note by Don Freund
In addition to a large battery of percussion instruments, the instrumentation of “Outsider” calls for piano and harp, which are frequently paired to create unusual articulation mixtures. The trumpet section is divided between trumpets and flugelhorns that provide an additional rich, dark color for the brass section.
- Program Note from Indiana University Symphonic Band concert program, 3 April 2018
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Indiana University (Bloomington) Symphonic Band (Eric M. Smedley, conductor) – 3 April 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Beyond the Brass Gates (1998)
- Earthdance Concerto (2001)
- End of Summer (1990)
- Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks (2004)
- Five Elizabethan Dances (2011)
- Jug Blues and Fat Pickin' (1986)
- Life of the Party (2000)
- Nativitas! — Fantasy on Perotin's 12th Century Alleluia (1996)
- Outsider (2004)
- Radical Light (1990)
- Southwinds (1994)
- Spinning Rounds (1993)
- The Waste Land: Four Movements after T.S. Eliot (1972)
Resources
- Don Freund website Accessed 31 March 2018