Three Sketches for Winds
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This work bears the designation QMB Journal 359.
General Info
Year: 1969
Duration: c. 7:45
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts - $105.00 | Score Only - $9.95
Movements
1. Carousel
2. Charade
3. Callithump
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This original composition for wind ensemble or symphonic band is in three movements:
1..Carousel – suggests the festive, tongue-in-cheek abandon of an amusement park
2..Charade – the quiet contemplation of a sad clown
3..Callithump – a boisterous parade or street celebration
The movements are linked together by a triangle solo.
- Program Note from Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music
Media
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State Ratings
- Alabama: Class CC
- Florida: V
- Maryland: V
- Michigan: Senior High C
- Minnesota: II
- South Carolina: IV
- Virginia: V
- West Virginia: III
Performances
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- NorthWinds Symphonic Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (John Bell, conductor) - 24 February 2019
- University of North Dakota (Grand Forks) University Band (James Popejoy, conductor) – 9 October 2018
- San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) Band (Leonard Lutz, conductor) – 17 April 2016
- California State University, Fresno, Symphonic Band (Steven M. McKeithen, conductor) - 20 March 2015 (2015 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- Western University (of Ontario) Symphonic Band (Gary McCumber, conductor) - 4 April 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1954/2006/2017)
All Wind Works
- American Folk Rhapsody No. 1 (1948)
- American Folk Rhapsody No. 2. See: Second American Folk Rhapsody
- American Folk Rhapsody No. 3 (1970)
- American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 (1977)
- A Bernstein Tribute (as arranger) (1991)
- The Black Knight (1956)
- The Blue and the Gray (1961)
- The Blue and the Gray (arr. Longfield) (1961/2013)
- The Blue-Tail Fly (1951)
- Burlesque for Band (1967)
- Caprice for Clarinets (1961)
- Chessboard Suite (1964)
- Chorale from "Concord" (arr. Longfield) (1988/2018)
- Concord (1987)
- Concertante for Alto Sax and Band (1973)
- A Copland Portrait (as adapter) (1986)
- A Copland Tribute (as arranger) (1986)
- Joy to the World (as arranger) (1970)
- An English Christmas (1982)
- English Suite (1968)
- Fantasy on American Sailing Songs (1952)
- Fantasy on English Hunting Songs (1985)
- Flutation (1961)
- The Green Domino (1951)
- Hebrides Suite (1962)
- An Irish Rhapsody (1971)
- Japanese Rhapsody (1969)
- Kentucky 1800 (1954/1987)
- Kentucky 1800 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1954/2006/2017)
- Little English Suite (1968)
- Little Suite for Band (1957)
- March Processional (1950)
- A Medieval Story (1966)
- Music for a Carnival (1957)
- Nocturne for Harp and Band (1975)
- Quiet Christmas (1959)
- A Scottish Rhapsody (1981)
- Second American Folk Rhapsody (1959)
- Señor, Señor (1963) (as Carlos Guermo)
- Slava! (as transcriber) (1977/1978)
- A Somerset Rhapsody (as transcriber) (1906/1927/1980)
- Spirit of '76 (1964)
- Three Sketches for Winds (1969)
- Two Moods (1947)
- Tuba Rhapsody
- A Welsh Rhapsody (1968)
- Western Dance (1968)
Resources
- Grundman, C. (1969). Three Sketches for Winds [score]. Boosey & Hawkes: New York.
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Clare Grundman." Accessed 6 April 2015.
- Miles, Richard B. 2000. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 3. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 289-295.