|
Please DONATE to help with maintenance and upkeep of the Wind Repertory Project!
|
Taking the Fifth (2021)
General Info
Year: 2020 / 2022
Duration: c. 5:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Adaptable band
Publisher: Meechan Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $80.00 | Score Only (print) - $40.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Percussion (6 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tom-Toms
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Written during the Covid-19 pandemic, originally as an adaptable chart, Taking the Fifth takes its title from both the primary interval of the work as well as from a general British expression that when something is outrageous, remarkable, or the worse of its kind that it “takes the biscuit”. Given that the piece was written during the Covid-19, and that even more unpredictable news that followed every day during the pandemic, it seemed an apt title!
Upbeat, occasionally dark, but always with drive and a sense of fun, Taking the Fifth was the piece that got my creative juices flowing again, having initially found myself pretty lost for inspiration during the early stages of pandemic.
Taking the Fifth is dedicated to my dear friend, Robert Ambrose.
- Program Note by composer
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Kansas (Lawrence) Symphonic Band (Matthew O. Smith, conductor) – 21 March 2023
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Forgotten Children (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Letters from Home (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2014/2020)
- Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Lullaby. See also: Suite Treats
- Plaza Fanfare (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Song of Hope (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Taking the Fifth (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Zenith (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Apex
- Athabasca (2018)
- Autumn Falling
- Bang 2 (2007)
- Carnival (2006)
- Chorales (on Brecht) (2017)
- Close to the Sun (2018)
- Crazy Diamonds Shining
- Devil's Duel
- Dreams Unseen (2021)
- Each Life Converges (2022)
- Episodes and Echoes
- Eternal Light (2008)
- Fanfare for a Festival (Meechan)
- Forgotten Children (Adaptable Band) (2014/2020)
- Fragile Oasis (2013/14)
- ISS Flyover (2012)
- Korn Symphony (2015)
- Lament (from Macbeth) (2008/2014)
- Land of the Living Skies (2018)
- let this place (2019)
- Letters for Home (2014)
- Letters from Home (arr. Ambrose) (2014/2020)
- Lift Off (2006)
- Loss Verses (2021)
- Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Lullaby. See also: Suite Treats
- Macbeth (Meechan)
- Machines (2020)
- Match Day (2006)
- Origins (2012)
- Perpetua (2019)
- Plaza Fanfare (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Renaissance of Wonder (2016)
- Shine (2011)
- Soliloquies from a Quiet Place (2019)
- Song of Hope (with trumpet solo) (2013/2015)
- Song of Hope (band) (2013/2015)
- Song of Hope (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Soul Divine (2017)
- Taking the Fifth (2020/2021)
- Taking the Fifth (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- These Mist Covered Mountains
- Three Stories, Three Worlds (2004)
- Through Clouds and Sunshine (2021)
- Velvet Blue (2013)
- Waves Toward the Pebbled Shore (2018)
- Zenith (Adaptable Band) (2020)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Peter Meechan website Accessed 13 January 2023