While I Watch the Yellow Wheat
General Info
Year: 2002
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daehn Publications, through C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $48.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
- Bells
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The bittersweet theme of love and longing from the 18th Century Welsh folksong Gwenith Gwyn translates beautifully for concert band. The title is taken from the opening line of the song's text, with the graceful melody placed in comfortable ranges This is a lovely, mellow adaptation that can assist in developing expressive playing.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Grove City High School Symphonic Band (Thomas Traini, conductor) – 2002
- Audio CD: Kennesaw Mountain High School Wind Symphony (Donald Starnes, conductor) - 2006
State Ratings
- Georgia: II
- Louisiana: I
- Texas: I. Complete
- West Virginia: I
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Traughber Junior High School Band (Oswego, Ill.) (Rachel Maxwell, conductor) – 5 May 2017 (2017 Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival)
- Farmington (Mo.) Middle School Intermediate Band (Elliot Naes, conductor) - 25 November 2014
- John M. Folks Middle School Helotes, Tx.) Band (Carolyn Ireland, conductor) - 16 April 2014
- Kennesaw Mountain High School (Kennesaw, Ga.) Wind Symphony (Donald Starnes, conductor) – 20 December 2006 (2006 Midwest Clinic)
- Grove City (Ohio) High School Symphonic Band (Thomas Traini, conductor) – 20 December 2002 (2002 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- A Song for Friends (Flex instrumentation) (1997/2020)
All Wind Works
- 633 Squadron (as arranger) (1964/2003)
- Adagio Cantabile (as arranger) (1798/2009)
- Adagio for Winds (2004)
- Allegro: From Brandenburg Concerto #3 (as arranger) (1721/1980)
- Aria (as arranger)
- As Summer Was Just Beginning (1994)
- British Isles Suite (1999)
- Chaconne (2011)
- Chaconne and Festive Aria (as arranger)
- Chaconne in D Minor (as arranger)
- Chorale and Fugue in F Major (as arranger)
- Christmas Day (as arranger)
- Concerto for Prince Johann (as arranger) (c. 1713 / 2011)
- Country Wildflowers (1998)
- Die Meistersinger Themes (as arranger) (18684/2009)
- Highland Echoes (1995)
- Fa Una Canzona (as arranger) (c. 1590/1990)
- Farewell, Dear Voyager (2000)
- Fugue in B-flat Major (as arranger) (1722/1988)
- I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (as transcriber) (1905-12/1987)
- Irish Trilogy (as arranger) (1961/2003)
- Nottingham Castle (1997)
- Old Irish Tune (2002)
- Passacaglia from "Cantata No. 12" (as arranger)
- Pioneer Songs (2003)
- Remembrance (2014)
- Romany Life (as arranger)
- The Running Set (as arranger) (1933/2007)
- Sarabande (as arranger) (1703-1706/1733/2004)
- Song for Friends, A (1997)
- A Song for Friends (Flex instrumentation) (1997/2020)
- Symphony No. 6: Third Movement Finale (as arranger) (1893/2007)
- Symphony No. 11: Second Movement Excerpts (as arranger) (1957/1989)
- Tchaikovskyana (as arranger) (1979/2015)
- Themes from "Green Bushes" (as arranger) (1906/1987)
- Trieste Overture (as arranger) (2006)
- Walking Tune (as arranger) (1900/1940/1988)
- West Point Bicentennial March (2002)
- Where Eagles Dare (as arranger) (1968/2011)
- While I Watch the Yellow Wheat (2002)
- With Quiet Courage (1995)
Resources
- Daehn, L. (2002). While I Watch the Yellow Wheat [score]. Daehn Publications: New Glarus, Wisc.
- Perusal score