Overture on a Minstrel Tune

Pierre La Plante

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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

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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
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II

(percussion detail desired)

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

Media

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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

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Merit School of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Wind Ensemble 2015

Works for Winds by This Composer

All Ye Young Sailors (as arranger) (2005)
American Riversongs (1991)
American Sketches (2014)
As I Walked Through the Meadow (2019)
At the Old Camp Ground (2017)
The Band in the Square (2006)
The Cat's Pajamas (2018)
Caribbean Rondo (2009)
Come to the Fair!
A Cowboy Symphony (2008)
Early One Morning (as arranger) (2005)
English Country Settings (1997)
Fantasy on a Fiddle Tune (2005)
Great American West Suite, The (2013)
In the Forest of the King (2000)
La Bonne Aventure (2010)
Legends and Heroes (2003)
Minka's Sleigh Ride (2007)
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)
Travelin' Music (2018)
The Voyageurs (2002)
A Walk in the Morning Sun (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.