Storyville
General Info
Year: 1996
Duration: c. 16:10
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: James Syler
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – Rental ($350.00) | Score Only (print) - $40.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II (II doubling Alto Flute)
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-IX
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Flugelhorn
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Euphonium
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bell Tree
- Cowbell
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Field Drum
- Flexatone
- Floor Tom
- Gong (large)
- Marimba
- Police Whistle
- Siren
- Sizzle Cymbal
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal (suspended)
- Suspended Cymbals (2: small and thin, and large)
- Tam-tams (2: small and medium)
- Tom-tom (medium)
- Trash Can Lid (large metal)
- Vibraphone
- Whip
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Storyville is a one movement “Third Stream”-type symphonic poem. Early jazz styles and contemporary devices are used in a modern setting to intensify the realities of Storyville – the infamous New Orleans prostitution district. The work is dramatic with a sense of sadness and spaciousness.
- Program Note from publisher
Three of James Syler's works – Congo Square, Storyville, Minton's Playhouse – can be performed independently or as a larger trilogy titled Three Pieces in Jazz.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of South Florida (Tampa) Wind Ensemble (Matthew McCutcheon, conductor) – 16 February 2020
- Eastman Wind Ensemble (Rochester, N.Y.) (Donald Hunsberger, conductor; Nicole Cabell, soprano) – 21 December 2000 (2000 Midwest Clinic)
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 (2010)
- Cantique (2012)
- Congo Square (2016)
- Country Bandstand (2002)
- Fantasia on Brother James' Air (2023)
- Fantasia on "Silent Night" (2011)
- 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)
- Seasons (2022)
- Silent Shadows to the Last (2017)
- Sinfonietta (2012)
- Storyville (1996)
- Suite Argentine (2020)
- Suite Louisiane (2018)
- Symphony No. 1, “Blue” (1999)
- Symphony No. 2 (2019)
- Tattoo (2005)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (2014)
- Wu Xing (2016)
Resources
- James Syler website Accessed 16 February 2020
- Syler, J. (1996). Storyville [score]. J. Ballerbach: Boca Raton, Fla.