Sinfonietta (Syler)

James Syler

James Syler

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General Info

Year: 2012
Duration: c. 13:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: James Syler
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $300.00   |   Score Only (print) - $30.00

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This one-movement abstract work is in three sections and begins with a timpani motive containing the intervallic and rhythmic ideas to be developed -- most notably the m3rd and m6th. A lyrical 12-tone theme follows and is developed by way of a fugue where each entrance is at the m7th, not the P5th, creating a perpetual spiral fugue. It grows in volume, complexity, and weight to its culmination in the brass. The B section is slower and features oboe and bassoon solos developed from the original 12-tone theme. Static woodwinds and keyboard percussion provide background to simple melodic lines. The final C section is Allegro and begins with a traditional fugal treatment in 7/4 of the opening theme. The music develops and restates the opening as it grows in intensity, power, and weight to the end. The work was commissioned by a consortium of 20 university wind ensembles, and completed in 2012.

- Program Note by publisher

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• University of Miami (Coral Gables) Frost Symphonic Winds (Chee Weng Yim, conductor) – 21 February 2018

Works for Winds by this Composer

Adaptable Music

• Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
• Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
• The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
• Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)

All Wind Works

• Blue-Bop (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• A Blue Streak
• Cantique (2012)
• Congo Square (2016)
• Country Bandstand (2002)
• Fantasia on "Silent Night"
• Fields (1994)
• Galop (as transcriber) (c. 1909/2013)
• Gearbox (2009)
• Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1854/2020)
• The Harmonious Blacksmith (as arranger) (1720/2020)
• Hocus Pocus (2013)
• The Hound of Heaven (1988)
• Hymn for Emmanuel (2015)
• Love Among the Ruins (2016)
• Mam-Blu (Flex instrumentation) (2006/2020)
• Minton's Playhouse (1994)
• O Magnum Mysterium (1996)
• The Road Not Taken (Flex instrumentation) (1993/2020)
• Scintilla (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
• Silent Shadows to the Last (2017)
• Sinfonietta (2012)
• Storyville (1996)
• Suite Louisiane (2018)
• Symphony No. 1, “Blue” (1999)
• Symphony No. 2 (2019)
• Tattoo (2005)
• The Temptation of St. Anthony (2014)
• Suite Argentine (2020)
• Wu Xing (2016)

Resources

• James Syler website Accessed 20 February 2018