Ricercare (Stamp)
General Info
Year: 1999 / 2003
Duration: C. 6:25
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00 | Score Only (print) - $9.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Bongos
- Chimes
- Claves
- Cowbell
- Crash Cymbals
- Marimba
- Ratchet
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A ricercare originally referred to a composition of an introductory nature. It later meant a "free" composition resembling a fugue. This work is a series of imitative episodes based on the opening English horn motive and features syncopation and meter changes.
- Program Note from publisher
Ricercare displays several of Stamp's characteristic compositional techniques and in many ways is microcosm of his oeuvre. The piece displays the composer's harmonic vocabulary, rhythmic energy, and thematic efficiency. In this case, Ricercare has historical significance.
- Program Note from Teaching Music through Performance in Band
In memory of Robert Linn.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Leesville Road High School Symphonic Band (Jack Stamp, conductor) – 2001
- Audio CD: North Texas Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) – 2009
State Ratings
- Indiana: ISSMA SENIOR BAND GROUP II
- Kansas: IV
- Louisiana: IV
- Michigan: Senior High AA
- North Carolina: VI
- Texas: IV. Complete
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of North Texas (Denton) University Band (Brett Penshorn, conductor) – 14 November 2018
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, Penn.) Symphony Band (Jason Worzbyt, conductor) – 4 March 2017
- Leesville Road High School (Raleigh, N.C.) Symphonic Band (Jack Stamp, conductor) – 21 December 2001 (2001 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
All Wind Works
- AirLink (2009)
- Aloft! (1997)
- Antithigram (1977/1988)
- As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
- Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
- Bandancing (2004)
- Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
- The Beltway Jam (2006)
- Border Dance (2021)
- Cage Dance (2020)
- Capriccio (2023)
- Cenotaph (1992)
- Cheers! (1995)
- Chorale and Toccata (1993)
- Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
- Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
- Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
- Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
- Divertimento in F (1995)
- Down East Fanfare (2003)
- Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
- Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
- Encomium (2022)
- Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
- Escapade (2007)
- Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
- Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
- Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
- Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
- Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
- Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
- Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
- The Final Beguine (2018)
- Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
- Forefathers
- Four Maryland Songs (2000)
- Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
- Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
- I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
- In Final Obedience (1994)
- In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
- In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
- Iridium
- Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
- Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
- Miniature Overture (2010)
- No Brief Candle (2019)
- Panhandle Prelude (2013)
- Parkway Jam Fanfare
- Past the Equinox
- Pastime (1999)
- Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
- Prayer and Jubilation
- Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
- Psalm 150 (2013)
- Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
- Repetend
- Ricercare (2001)
- Rondeau
- Rondo alla BCP (2023)
- San Luis Snapshots (2016)
- Scenes from Terezin (2009)
- Skyline
- A Song of Hope (2013)
- Southpaw (2014)
- The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
- Stranger at My Door (2021)
- Symphony No. 1 (2006)
- Three Places in England
- Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
- Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
- Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
- With Trump and Wing
Resources
- Jack Stamp website
- Stamp, J. (2003). Ricercare [score]. Kjos: San Diego, Calif.
- Stowman, William. "Ricercare." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 541-548. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.