Woodscapes
General Info
Year: 1998 / 1999
Duration: c. 15:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maecenas Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £53.00 | Score Only (print) - £15.00
Movements
1. Allegretto – 4:25
2. Adagio – 5:15
3. Allegretto – 5:20
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II (II doubling Piccolo)
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by a consortium of American high schools and tailored to the needs and abilities of their young players, Woodscapes is performable by as few as 16 players. Its ever-changing moods abound with McAlister’s delicious felicities of scoring, atmosphere and colour.
- Program Note from publisher
Clark McAlister wrote Woodscapes as a commission honoring Jim Cochran, who through his work with Shattinger Music served as a wonderful resource for the wind band community throughout the world.
The Allegretto is the opening movement of the work. Its germinal rhythmic motive of an eighth-two sixteenths-eighth, governs the contrapuntal development of the music. Composed with an attribute of textural clarity, all players function as chamber players or soloists at one time or another in the work.
- Program Note from University of Louisville Wind Ensemble concert program, 22 November 2020
To Jim Cochran.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Atlantic Chamber Winds (Russell McCutcheon, conductor)
- Audio CD: Atlantic Chamber Winds (Russell McCutcheon, conductor) - 2012
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Louisville (Ky.) Wind Ensemble (Frederick Speck, conductor) - 22 November 2020
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Anvil Chorus (as transcriber with Graham) (1853/2008)
- Armenian Folk Song and Dance (as arranger) (1932/1988)
- Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (as arranger; ed. Reed) (1910/2005)
- Canovacci (2003)
- Carmen (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1875/2000)
- Characteristic Dances from "The Nutcracker Suite" (as editor with Reed; tr. Rogan) (1892/2001)
- Concerto for Trombone and Military Band (as editor) (1878/1981)
- Finlandia (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1900/2004)
- Hogarthiana
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1853/2002)
- L’Arlésienne Suite No 2 (as editor with Reed) (1872/2002)
- Light Cavalry Overture (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1866/2003)
- Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (as arranger)
- Partita for Two Oboes, Two Clarinets, Two Horns, Trumpet, Two Bassoons and Contrabassoon, op 45, no 2 (as editor) (1803/2001)
- Partita for Two Oboes, Two Clarinets, Two Horns, Two Bassoons and Contrabassoon, op 67 (as editor) (1808/2003)
- Pascha (2006)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (as arranger with Reed) (1850/2006)
- A Quilting Bee (2002)
- "Ricercare a 6" from Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (as transcriber)
- Six Country Dances (as transcriber) (1988)
- Suite persane (as editor) (1900/2000)
- A Summer Flourish (1991/1995)
- Symphonies de Noel
- Tannhäuser Grand March (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1847/2005)
- Three Chorales (as editor; arr. Reed) (?/2013)
- Triumphal March from "Aida" (as arranger)
- Variations on a Theme of Glinka (as editor) (1878/1987)
- Woodscapes (1998/1999)
Resources
- McAlister, C. (1998). Woodscapes: For Wind Ensemble [score]. Maecenas Music: Surrey.
- Perusal score