Suite Euphonious
General Info
Year: 2018 / 2020
Duration: c. 4:10
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Tuba quartet
Publisher: Robert Spittal
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $50.00
Movements
1. Heavy Fanfare
2. Dance Chants
3. 3 Before 5
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Trumpet
- Violin
Part 2
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Violin
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- Horn in F
- Viola
Part 4
- Bassoon
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Horn in F
- Cello
Part 5
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- String Bass
Piano (optional)
Timpani
Percussion (optional), including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Drum Set
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A small postmodernist suite composed for flexible combinations of winds and strings with optional piano and percussion. Three tuneful movements, featuring a heavy funk fanfare, a dance tune in an ancient style, and an energetic finale.
Based on the tuba quartet Euphonious IV commissioned in 2018 by Jeff Held and Concordia University in Irvine, Calif.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Pacem (Adaptable Band) (2005/2020)
- Suite Euphonious (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Winsome Variations (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
All Wind Works
- Arise (2021)
- Blue Allusions (2020)
- Celestial Song (2014)
- Chinook Sketches
- Consort for Ten Winds (2005)
- Diversions (2018)
- Euphonious IV (2018)
- Tarantella Forsennato (2010)
- Lament (for a Fallen Friend)
- Mockingbird Rag
- Pacem (2005)
- Pacem (Adaptable Band) (2005/2020)
- Pacem (Brass Choir)
- Pineapple Frippery
- Prelude and Flight for Violin and Band (2014)
- Prelude and Scherzo
- Tarantella Forsennato (2005/2009)
- Scherzo: Cat and Mouse (2012)
- St George's Fanfare
- Suite Euphonious (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Winsome Variations (2019)
- Winsome Variations (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Winter Dreams
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- Perusal score
- Robert Spittal website Accessed 13 August 2020