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Velvet Blue
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Peter Meechan
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $60.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Tuba
Organ
Timpani
Percussion (optional)
- Drum Set
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In an email to Rodney Holmes, the commissioner of Velvet Blue, the composer noted:
Okay -- so the piece … essentially, it is a blues lick -- in keeping with a Fleetwood Mac/Pink Floyd/Clapton etc. idea -- but a bit more edgy. Didn’t want the keyboard to be any more of a soloist than anyone else in the ensemble, although inevitably they get some of the more tricky lines! But then whilst I was conceiving this piece I figured,’ no, this is an unusual line up -- it needs a cadenza!’ Hence the opening passages.
As it winds in to the slower section, the plunger/flutter effects in the brass almost imitate a ride cymbal -- giving it a little pace, rather than anything specific in terms of effects. That kind of slow blues tends to be really dirty -- which is exactly the way the work should be performed!”
Velvet Blue was commissioned by Rodney Holmes for Chicago’s Gargoyle Brass Quintet to be performed with Hammond Organ. Throughout the commissioning and recording process it became apparent that it would work equally well with pipe organ, and an ad lib drum set could be added in performance.
- Program Note from publisher
Commercial Discography
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble (Rodney Holmes, coordinator) - 2015
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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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)
- Meditations (2023)
- Origins (2012)
- Perpetua (2019)
- Plaza Fanfare (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Renaissance of Wonder (2016)
- Shine (2011)
- A Short Blast (2023)
- 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
- Peter Meechan website Accessed 7 September 2020