Solar Eclipse

David P. Miller

David P. Miller

General Info

Year: 2017
Duration:
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Silver Clef Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe br /> Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass 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
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bass Drum
• Bells
• Crash Cymbals
• Snare Drum

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

On August 21, 2017, all of North America was treated to its first total solar eclipse since 1979 (touching only the Northwest United States and Canada), and the last one until 2024 (going from Mexico, from Texas to Maine, and into Canada's Maritime provinces). The path of totality in 2017 stretched from Oregon to South Carolina, but people as far away as Canada and Mexico were able to see 50-75% of the eclipse.

In an email conversation with the former director of the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Community Band, the composer discovered that no march or other piece of music had been written to commemorate this or any other solar eclipse.

The composing muse immediately struck, and the result was this march, written and scored in a period of three days, printed and ready to play in six.

After offering this march to the band community, we wound up with eight bands across the U.S. and Canada scheduling this march to be performed in public within a week of the total solar eclipse of 2017.

- Program Note from publisher

Media

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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• Second Winds (McMinnville, Ore.) (Mark Williams, conductor) – 19 August 2017
• Mississippi Community (Jackson) Symphonic Band (David P. Miller, conductor) – 19 August 2017 *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Alamo March (arr. Miller) (1916/2016)
• Amazing Grace (as arranger)
• The American Frontier Suites Series (as editor)
  • The Revolutionaries (AFS #1)
  • The Seafarers (AFS #2)
  • The Appalachian Frontier (AFS #3)
  • River Valley Suite (AFS #4)
  • The Builders (AFS #5)
  • Pushing Westward (AFS #6)
  • Gold Rush Days (AFS #7)
  • Brother Against Brother (AFS #8)
  • A Nation Divided (AFS #9)
  • The War to End All Wars (AFS #21)
• Association of Concert Bands March, The
• Birthday of a King
• Bombasto March (as arranger)
• Camp Town Bash
• Cedar Key Calypso
• Celebration of Liberty
• Centurions (original)
• Christmas Magic
• Downeaster March
• El Capitan (as editor)
• The Ensemble Concert Books - Volume 1
  • The Washington Post March -ECB1- (editor)
  • What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor? -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • How Great Thou Art -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • Bill Bailey -ECB1- (as editor)
  • Give My Regards to Broadway -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • Greensleeves -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • A Bicycle Built for Two -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • Grandfather's Clock -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • Onward, Christian Soldiers -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • You Tell Me Your Dreams -ECB1- (as arranger)
  • You're a Grand Old Flag -ECB1- (arr. Arnie Gross, ed. DMiller)
  • The Billboard March -ECB1- (as editor)
• The Ensemble Concert Books - CHILDREN'S VOLUME
  • Pop Goes the Weasel -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • The Farmer in the Dell -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • Are You Sleeping -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • Old MacDonald -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • Found a Peanut (My Darling Clementine) -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • Twinkle, Twinkle -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • A Baby Bumblebee -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • Jesus Loves Me -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • Polly Wolly Doodle -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • The Muffin Man -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • The Itsy Bitsy Spider -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • The Bear Went Over the Mountain -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • London Bridge -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • On Top of Old Smokey -ECBKids- (as arranger)
  • My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean -ECBKids- (as arranger)
• Fairgreen March
• For All The Saints (as arranger)
• Harold B. Bachman March, The
• Hydrophobia (as arranger)
• I’m An Angel (Just in Time for Christmas)
• Joyful, Joyful
• The Laughing Trombone
• Lexington Processional (formerly CCAF March)
• Liberty Bell March (as arranger)
• Moon Landing, USA (2019)
• Nebula (Concert March)
• O Holy Night (as arranger) (1847/2005)
• Panis Angelicus (for SSAA with band)
• Pathfinder of Panama (as arranger)
• A Patriot's Anthem
• Pearl River March
• The Pledge of Allegiance
• Rifle Regiment March (as editor)
• Rondo for Horns and Concert Band (2020)
• Semper Supra - Guardians We! (2022)
• Solar Eclipse (2017)
• Spanish Serenade
• The Star Spangled Banner Noble
• Swingle Bells
• Symphonic Suite for Band
• Touching Basses
• Trident, The
• US Hooray!
• The Vanished Army (as arranger)
• Washington Post March (as editor)
• Xylo Lagniappe

Resources

• David Miller, personal correspondence, August 2017