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Transient Luminous Events
General Info
Year: 2020
Duration: c. 4:35
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Composerose Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.0 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Flute/Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- Violin
Part 2
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet/B-flat Trumpet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- Violin
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet/B-flat Trumpet/B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- F Horn
- Viola
Part 4
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- F Horn
- Trombone/Baritone/Bassoon/Cello
Part 5
- Trombone/Baritone/Bassoon/Cello
- Baritone Saxophone/Tuba/Bass
Timpani
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Concert Toms (3)
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Sometimes called upper atmospheric lightning or ionospheric lightning, transient luminous events (TLEs) are short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena/electrically induced forms of luminous plasma, that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and Cumulonimbus clouds. Different types of TLEs include Sprites, Halos, Blue Jets, Gigantic Jets, and ELVES.
In the 1920s, the Scottish physicist C.T.R. Wilson predicted that electrical breakdown should occur in the atmosphere high above large thunderstorms. In ensuing decades, high-altitude electrical discharges were reported by aircraft pilots, but there was not visual evidence of these events until scientists at the University of Minnesota were able to photograph a sprite on July 6, 1989.
- Program Note from score
Performance Notes
This flex arrangement will work with as few as 11 players (five winds and/or strings and six percussionists). However with that few winds/strings, I recommend amplifying the winds/strings as the percussionists will easily overpower them.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School Symphonic Band (Jason Noble, conductor) - 7 December 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- The Aerialist (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Bitscapes (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Celestial Rise (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Imminent Danger (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- In the Distance (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- MacFarlane's Lantern (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Metaphysical Travels (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Mystic Embers (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Transient Luminous Events (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Twisted (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- The Aerialist (2017)
- The Aerialist (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Bitscapes (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Celestial Rise (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Imminent Danger (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- In the Distance (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- MacFarlane's Lantern (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Metaphysical Travels (Adaptable Band) (2018/2020)
- Mystic Embers (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- The Oath (2017)
- Pegasus in Flight
- Skeleton Scherzo (2017)
- Transient Luminous Events (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Twisted (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- The Veil Nebula
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- Jennifer Rose, personal correspondence, June 2020
- Jennifer Rose website Accessed 28 June 2020
- Perusal score