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Overture on a Minstrel Tune
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Contents
General Info
Year: 1979
Duration: c. 4:05
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bourne Co.
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $61.50 | Score Only (print) - $16.00
For availability information, see Discussion tab, above.
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
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
Cornets I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II
(percussion detail needed)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
De Boatmen's Dance, on which this overture is based, is a minstrel tune written in 1843 for the Virginia Minstrels by Daniel Decatur Emmett. It is a single-movement work with three distinct sections.
- Program Note from Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class C
- Florida: III
- Louisiana: II
- North Carolina: III
- Tennessee: III
- Texas: II. Complete
- Wisconsin: Event 3000 Concert Band Grade C
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by this Composer
- American Riversongs (1991)
- American Sketches (2014)
- At the Old Camp Ground (2017)
- Caribbean Rondo (2009)
- Come to the Fair!
- Early One Morning (as arranger) (2005)
- English Country Settings (1997)
- Great American West Suite, The (2013)
- In the Forest of the King (2000)
- Legends and Heroes (2003)
- Music for the King's Delight (2007)
- Overture on a Minstrel Tune (1979)
- Prairie Songs (1998)
- Prospect (1983)
- Red River Valley, The (as arranger) (2001)
- Song of the Mountain Horn (as arranger) (2013)
- Songs of the Plains (2015)
- Suite of Old French Songs (2015)
- The Thunder and the Roar (2004)
- The Voyageurs (2002)
- Walk in the Morning Sun, A (2010)
- Winds A' "Whispering" (as arranger) (1920/2009)
- Yorkshire Folk Song Suite (2016)
Resources
- La Plante, P. (1979). Overture on a Minstrel Tune [score]. Bourne Co.: New York.
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. 2002. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 4. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 187-192.
