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Urban Scenes
General Info
Year: 1993
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A Kjos Music
Cost: Score & Parts - $80.00 | Score Only - $8.00
Movements
1. Skyline at Sunrise
2. The Business Day
3. Church Steeples
4. Rush Hour
5. Skyline at Sunset
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Bassoon
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass 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 I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Gong (Tam-Tam)
- Marimba
- Metal Garbage Can Lid (2)
- Slapstick
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tenor Drum
- Tubular Bells
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Urban Scenes was commissioned by R. J. Metteer and the Lenox (Iowa) Junior High School Honor Band and received its premiere in 1993.
The work is in five movements, each depicting a contrasting episode of daily life in the city. It is meant to be very programmatic and suggestive of images that might be connected with each of the titles. It is also meant to be a teaching piece and contains large contrasts in the use of harmonic language as well as an introduction to extended techniques such as singing and aleatory. Thematically and stylistically, movements I (Skyline at Sunrise), III (Church Steeples), and V (Skyline at Sunset) are connected and movements II (The Business Day) and IV (Rush Hour) are connected.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Snider Concert Band (Matt Smoot, conductor) - 25 April 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
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- 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 (2018)
- Celebration In Brass (1995)
- 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 (1989)
- A Fallen Leaf (2004)
- Fanfare: In Memoriam (2015)
- Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa (2003)
- Frenzy (2010)
- The Four Horsemen (1989)
- A Glimpse through the Trees (2014)
- Grant Them Eternal Rest (2003)
- Havener Fanfare (2012)
- Heirloom (2009)
- I Am (1990)
- John Henry (1990)
- Joyride (2003/2008)
- 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 (1995)
- Phoenix (2020)
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Relentless (2000)
- Scarborough Fair. See: Three Folk Song Settings for Band
- Scherzo (1995)
- Scherzo No 2 (2013)
- Shades of Ivory (1996)
- Simple Song (1995)
- Snowflakes Dancing (2012/2016)
- Song for Lyndsay (2005)
- Song for My Children (2013)
- Song for My Parents (2020)
- Song of Loudest Praise, A (2010)
- Song of the Sea Maidens (1994)
- 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 (2012)
- Symphony No. 8 (2015-2016)
- Symphony No. 10 (2019)
- This Is the Drum (2013)
- Thoughts of You (1998)
- 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 (1993)
- Unraveling (2006)
- Urban Scenes (1993)
- The Vikings (2015)