Viva Mexico!
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 5:40
Difficulty: III+ (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Grand Mesa
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
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
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Bongos
- Castanets
- Claves
- Cowbell
- Guiro
- Maracas
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Timbales, High
- Wood Block
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Take your band and audience on a musical vacation to spicy-hot Mexico! This flavorful medley of four famous Mexican songs includes La Cucaracha; Cielito Lindo; Carmen Carmela and Mexican Hat Dance, each of which contributes a different tempo and flavor for additional color and contrast.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Allan Hancock College (Santa Maria, Calif.) Concert Band (Greg Stoll, conductor) – 13 May 2017
- Osceola County (Fla.) Middle School Symphonic Band Extravaganza - 28 April 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Caribbean Carnival (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (Flex instrumentation)(as arranger) (2004/2020)
All Wind Works
- All Trails Lead West (2007)
- Allegro from "Symphony No. 10" (as arranger) (c. 1770/2015)
- American Gothic (2009)
- American Ramble (2016)
- Balfour Castle (2009)
- Caribbean Carnival (2007)
- Caribbean Carnival (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
- A Chanukah Celebration (arr. Soper) (1995)
- Chanukah: The Festival of Lights Overture (1996)
- City of Glass and Steel (2006)
- Clowns! Clowns! Clowns! (2009)
- The Comic (2012)
- A Concert Fanfare (2016)
- Diamond Falls (2013)
- Divertimento for Tuba and Band (2013)
- Fantasy on "March Slav" (as arranger) (1876/2019)
- Festival at Camelot (2017)
- Finale from Brahms Symphony No. 1 (as arranger) (1862-76/2019)
- Grand Central Station (2016)
- The Iron Horse Across America (2009)
- The Iron Pagoda (2016)
- Irish Fantasy (2013)
- Luminosity and Other Colorations (1995)
- The Mall of America (2009)
- March of the Trolls (2007)
- Midnight Fair (2018)
- Mission: Explore Strange New Worlds (2010)
- Mozart: Symphony No. 29, First Movement (as arranger) (1774/2013)
- A New Orleans Moment (2012)
- A Night in Budapest (2016)
- Of Demons, Spirits, and Creatures of the Night (2001)
- Oceanic Scenes (2004)
- Procession at Bayham Old Abbey (2017)
- Ragtimeout (2017)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (as arranger) (2004)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2004/2020)
- Sonidos de Sevilla (2009)
- Symphony No. 1: Finale (as arranger). See: Finale from Brahms Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 29: First Movement (as arranger). See: Mozart: Symphony No. 29, First Movement
- Theme and Variations for the Chanukah Festival
- The Traffic Circle (2017)
- Variations on "Russian Sailor's Dance" (as arranger)
- The Visionary (2006)
- Viva Mexico! (2015)
- Wheels (2016)
- Whodunit? (2004)
Resources
- Bobrowitz, D. (2015). Viva Mexico! [score]. Grand Mesa Music Publishers: Grand Junction, Colo.
- David Bobrowitz website Accessed 23 June 2021
- Perusal score