Voyageurs, The

Pierre La Plante

General Info

Year: 2002
Duration: c. 5:35
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daehn Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $76.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00

Movements

1. En Roulant
2. A La Claire Fontaine
3. "Rendezvous"

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:

Bass Drum
Bells
Cowbell
Crash Cymbals
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle
Wood Block
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This masterwork is a combination of paddling songs, love songs and songs of celebration describing the hearty French Canadian fur traders of Canada and the upper Midwest in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

- Program Note from publisher

Media

Audio CD: VanderCook College of Music Band (Charles T. Menghini, conductor) – 2002

State Ratings

Georgia: III
Louisiana: II
Maryland: III
North Carolina: III
Oregon: II-A

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Northeast Community College (Norfolk, Neb.) Community Band (Kevin McLouth, conductor) – 20 October 2019
Ohio University (Athens) Symphonic Band (David Mehlhope, conductor) – 27 March 2018
Worthington Kilbourne High School (Columbus, Ohio) Symphonic Band – 14 October 2014
VanderCook College of Music Band (Chicago, Ill.) (Charles T. Menghini, conductor) – 20 December 2002 (2002 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

All Ye Young Sailors (as arranger) (2005)
American Riversongs (1991)
American Sketches (2014)
As I Walked Through the Meadow (2019)
At the Old Camp Ground (2017)
The Band in the Square (2006)
The Cat's Pajamas (2018)
Caribbean Rondo (2009)
Come to the Fair!
A Cowboy Symphony (2008)
Early One Morning (as arranger) (2005)
English Country Settings (1997)
Fantasy on a Fiddle Tune (2005)
Great American West Suite, The (2013)
In the Forest of the King (2000)
La Bonne Aventure (2010)
Legends and Heroes (2003)
Minka's Sleigh Ride (2007)
Music for the King's Delight (2007)
Overture on a Minstrel Tune (1979)
Prairie Songs (1998)
Prospect (1983)
Red River Valley, The (as arranger) (2001)
Song of the Mountain Horn (as arranger) (2013)
Songs of the Plains (2015)
Suite of English Country Dances (2022)
Suite of Old French Songs (2015)
The Thunder and the Roar (2004)
Travelin' Music (2018)
The Voyageurs (2002)
A Walk in the Morning Sun (2010)
Winds A' "Whispering" (as arranger) (1920/2009)
Yorkshire Folk Song Suite (2016)

Resources

Pierre La Plante website – Accessed 28 March 2018