Variation V
Kevin Day (arr. Harrison J Collins)
General Info
Year: 2020 / 2022
Duration: c. 2:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: String Quartet
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $150.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- C Piccolo
- Flute I-II
- Oboe
- English Horn
- Bassoon I-II
- E-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Saxophone
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
- Horn in F I-II-III-IV
- Trombone I-II
- Bass Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Contra-Bass
- Piano
- Timpani
- Percussion, including:
- *Bass Drum
- *China Cymbals
- *Djembe
- *Marimba
- *Shakers
- *Snare Drum
- *Splash Cymbal
- *Suspended Cymbal
- *Tom-toms (4)
- *Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
I have had the privilege of working with my friend and colleague Kevin Day in various scenarios for many years. We work together as board members for the Millennium Composers Initiative, and we are founding members of the Aurora Tapestry Collective. Although he graduated long before my appearance there, we have even studied at the same school for our undergrad, Texas Christian University, with the same teacher, Dr. Neil Amderson-Himmelspach. I have loved Kevin's music dearly ever since I first heard it, and I admire Kevin himself to no end for his wisdom, compassion, brilliance, humor and ambition. So, I'm always glad for new opportunities to work with him!
In 2020, Kevin was commissioned by the Tesla Quartet to compose Variation V for string quartet. It was commissioned as a part of the "Alternating Currents" Quarantunes Project, and is based on the fifth variation of the Andante Cantabile from Beethoven's String Quartet in A Major, Op. 19, No. 5. This work happens to be one of my favorites of Kevins, and it occurred to me that it could work as an excellent concert opener or encore. I called Kevin and proposed the idea, and he enthusiastically allowed me to create this arrangement. I worked quickly and with determination: the result is a colorful arrangement that I consciously attempted to imbue with Kevin's musical voice and that, inevitably, is also imbued with my own voice.
- Program Note by arranger
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
- Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- All the Day Long (2017)
- Aurora (arr. Trentadue) (2021/2023)
- Christmas in Spain (2016)
- Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2021)
- Dancing Fire (2016)
- Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
- Deep Blue (2022)
- Dual Strides (2022)
- Ecstatic Samba (arr. Trentadue) (2017/2022)
- Ember Skies (2021)
- Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- enter data sequence (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- The Essence of Being (arr. Trentadue) (2021/2022)
- Fantasia for Alto Sax and Marimba (2016)
- Fireworks (2015)
- Flash Fury (2023)
- Galactic Voyage (2018)
- Ignition (2018/2020)
- Havana (2018)
- Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- A Hymn for Peace (2017)
- A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- J.R. (2017)
- Lightning Round (2022)
- Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- Metallic Figures
- More than Words... (2020)
- MOTO. See: Symphony Basquiat
- Night Sketches I (2016)
- Nitrous (2020)
- On Shores of Endless Sea (2022)
- Pyrotechnics (2019)
- Requiem for the Unarmed (2020/2022)
- River Memoria (2022)
- Rocketship! (2017)
- Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Sangre Royal (2023)
- Shimmering Sunshine (2019). See also: Of Day and Night
- Solace in the Wind (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2023)
- A Song for Tomorrow (2019)
- Summit (2020)
- Symphony Basquiat (2023)
- Tango Oscuro (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- Unquiet Waters (2020/2023)
- Variation V (arr. Collins) (2020/2022)
- Windborne (2022)
Resources
- Kevin Day website Accessed 31 March 2023
- Perusal score