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Symphony IV (Boysen)
Subtitle: For Winds and Percussion
General Info
Year: 2006
Duration: c. 11:10
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts - $70.00 | Score Only - $7.00
Movements
1. Fast - 3:45
2. Smooth and Flowing - 1:35
3. Scherzo and Trio - 1:35
4. Fast - 4:35
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra Alto 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
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Chimes
- Claves
- Finger Cymbals
- Guiro
- Marimba
- Orchestra Bell
- Ratchet
- Sandpaper Blocks
- Slapstick
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
Players vocalizing
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Symphony No. 4 follows a traditional form. However, the entire work is based on the octatonic scale, an alternation of half-steps and whole-steps. By using this scale, the Symphony includes both great dissonance as well as great consonance in sounds and colors, and creates a unique work for band.
- Program Note from the University of North Dakota University Band concert program, 13 October 2020
Symphony No. 4 for Winds and Percussion was commissioned by and dedicated to the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band (Skokie, Illinois). It was premiered at the 2004 Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Conference on January 30, 2004, with the composer conducting.
Written in four movements, Symphony No. 4 derives most of its motivic material from its opening two measures. Several extended techniques and contemporary compositional methods are used throughout the work. These include bowed percussion, dissonance, aleatoric music, unmetered measures, singing, and extended use of the octatonic scale.
- Program Note from McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band concert program, 22 December 2006
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band (Chip De Stefano, conductor) - 2006
State Ratings
- Georgia: V
- Wisconsin: Event 3000 Concert Band.Class B
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Westminster College (New Wilmington, Penn.) Symphonic Band (R. Tad Greig, conductor) - 30 April 2021
- University of South Alabama (Mobile) Symphony Band (Jason Rinehart, conductor) - 29 April 2021
- University of North Dakota (Grand Forks) University Band (James Popejoy, conductor) - 13 October 2020
- California All-State Junior High School Symphonic Band (Timothy Harris, conductor) - 23 February 2020 (2020 CASMEC Conference, Fresno)
- University of Illinois (Champaign) Campus Concert Band (Barry L. Houser, conductor) - 25 April 2019
- University of California, Los Angeles, Symphonic Band (Ian Richard, conductor) - 27 May 2015
- Perkiomen Valley High School Band (Collegeville, Pa.) (2013)
- University of Nevada (Reno) Symphonic Band (Chris Chapman and Alan Sullivan, conductors) – 20 March 2008 (CBDNA 2008 Western/Northwestern Division Conference, Reno, Nev.)
- McCracken Middle School (Skokie, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Chip De Stefano, conductor) – 22 December 2006 (2006 Midwest Clinic)
- McCracken Middle School (Skokie, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Andrew Boysen Jr., conductor) - 30 January 2004 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alchemy (2008/2013)
- All the Pretty Little Horses. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Ancient Runes (2017)
- Apples (2018)
- Branden's Rainbow (1997/2002)
- Bright Sunny Days (2013)
- By My Side (2018)
- Casus Belli
- Celebration In Brass
- Concerto for Percussion (as transcriber) (1994/1997)
- Conversations with the Night (1994)
- Dance, from All Hail the Power
- December Dance (2005)
- Diamond Jubilee Suite (2018)
- Distorted Images: A Jazzman's Nightmare
- Fallen Leaf, A
- Fantasy on a Theme of Sousa (2003)
- Frenzy
- The Four Horsemen
- A Glimpse through the Trees
- Grant Them Eternal Rest
- Havener Fanfare (2012)
- Heirloom
- I Am (1990)
- John Henry
- Joyride
- Kinetic Energy (1994)
- Kirkpatrick Fanfare (1999)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2006)
- Metamorphosis (2013)
- Old Ben's Farm (2016/2019)
- On the Merrimack (2010)
- Ovations
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Relentless
- Scarborough Fair. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Scherzo
- Scherzo No 2 (2013)
- Shades of Ivory
- Simple Song
- Snowflakes Dancing (2012/2016)
- A Song for Lyndsay (2005)
- Song for My Children (2013)
- Song of Loudest Praise, A (2010)
- Song of the Sea Maidens
- Stamp, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
- Star-Crossed (2013)
- Symphony No. 1 for Winds and Percussion (1997)
- Symphony No. 3 (1999)
- Symphony No. 4 (2006)
- Symphony No. 6
- Symphony No. 8 (2015-2016)
- Symphony No. 10 (2019)
- This Is the Drum (2013)
- Thoughts of You
- Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger (2007/2012)
- All the Pretty Little Horses (as arranger) (2014)
- Scarborough Fair (as arranger) (2013)
- Time Streams (After Tricycle) (2011)
- To Break Earth's Sleep (2015)
- Tricycle (1997)
- Twilight of the Gods (2010)
- An Uncommon Man
- Unraveling
- Urban Scenes
- The Vikings (2015)
- Winter of the World
Resources
- Boysen, Jr., Andrew (2006). Symphony No. 4 for Winds and Percussion [score]. N.A. Kjos Co.: San Diego, Calif.
- Pease, Andy. "Symphony no. 4." The Widn Band Symphony Archive. Web. Accessed 30 April 2021