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Quicksilver (Owens)
Contents
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 1:55
Difficulty: III+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00; (digital) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Snare Drum
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Reminiscent of the classic circus march, Quicksilver takes us back to the wild, unbridled early twentieth century circus times. This traditionally styled work in quite rollicking in nature, offering straightforward melodic content and sweeping technical passages from all sections of the ensemble.
The piece immediately demands attention with its audacious introduction and continues with great boldness. Becoming softer at the trio section, the music still maintains drive and intensity before once again assuming its original intrepid style and driving to a dashing finish.
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Clinic Honor Band III (Troy Bennefield, conductor) – 2 February 2020
- Lone Star Youth Winds (Dallas, Tx.) (Amanda Drinkwater, conductor) – 12 May 2019
- Ronald Reagan High School (San Antonio, Tex.) Wind Ensemble (Tom Bennett, conductor) - 21 December 2018 (2018 Midwest Clinic)
- Danny Jones Middle School (Mansfield, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Williams Owens, conductor) – 17 May 2018
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
All Wind Works
- Across the Great Plains (2017)
- Battle Command
- The Blue Orchid (2005)
- But Joy Comes... (2010)
- Captain Dane (2003)
- Carnegie Anthem (2012)
- Caverns of Sonora (2019)
- Chisholm
- Congolese (2017)
- Credo (2012)
- Curtain Up!
- Declaration and Dance (Owens) (2010)
- Destined to Fly (2018)
- El Pato Loco (2010)
- El Vaquero! (2017)
- Every Day New (2018)
- Excelsior! (2008)
- Festive Proclamation (2015)
- Flourishes!
- Great Wall (2016)
- Hark! (A Holiday Celebration) (As arranger)
- Heavenwards (2015)
- Heroes Triumphant (2012)
- Hopak! (2014)
- Ironclads (The Monitor and the Merrimack) (2012)
- Journey of the Bonfire (2017)
- Kitty Hawk, 1903 (2010)
- Maesong (2004)
- The Mighty 97th (2008)
- New Horizons March (2016)
- Paintings (2011)
- Paradise Awaiting (2017)
- Quicksilver (2018)
- Resplendence (2017)
- The Southern Dawn (1998/2002)
- Spit-Fire (2013)
- The Tahoka Galop (2004)
- Tambora! ((2013)
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Three Scottish Vistas (2007)
- Tudor Sketches (2013)
- Tundra (2018)
- Wings of Mercury, The
- With Valor and Brave Heart (2011)
- Zia (2014)
Resources
- Perusal score
- William Owens website Accessed 16 December 2018