Yankee Doodling
Subtitle: A Young Person's Guide to the Concert Band
General Info
Year: 1997
Duration: c. 28:45
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Kallman Creates
Cost: Set of Parts - $263.00 | Full Score - $32.00
Movements (played without pause)
1. - 1:35
2. - 2:51
3. - 8:53
4. - 8:26
5. - 3:41
6. - 2:41
N.B. The opening three minutes of music can stand alone as an overture.
Instrumentation
Full Score
Narrator
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Soprano Saxophone
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-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Baritone
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Anvil
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Cabasa (or Sandblocks)
- Castanets
- Celesta
- Chimes
- Cowbells (low and high)
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Hi-Hat
- Drum Kit
- Maracas
- Marimba
- Orchestra Bells
- Sandblocks
- Sizzle Cymbal
- Slide Whistle (or siren)
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam
- Temple Blocks
- Tom-toms
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Vibraslap
- Whip
- Woodblock
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This work was commissioned by the Minnesota Symphonic Winds and premiered on a children's concert in April 1997 under the baton of the late Miles Johnson with Christine Sweet narrating. It is modeled after Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra in that the purpose of the composition is to introduce the instruments of the concert band to the audience. College, community and professional wind ensembles have programmed the work on family concerts. The Minnesota Symphonic Winds have recorded the composition on their CD "Celebrating Twenty Years". The work has also been recorded by the Chamber Concert Band at Valparaiso University and by the United States Air Force Academy Band (formerly the USAF Band of the Rockies).
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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Additional Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alyeska: The Great Land
- An American Jubilee
- An American Tapestry (2003)
- Fantasia Variations on "Eternal Alleluias" (1995)
- Galop (2015)
- The Groundhog's Lament (2004)
- A Halama Christmas (2004)
- The Jig Is Up (2003)
- March Emeritus
- Metamorphosis (1986/2005)
- Overture from "Yankee Doodling"
- Promenade and Galop
- Sea Creatures
- Streets of Honor
- There Was a Composer of Genius
- The Vanishing Snows of Kilimanjaro
- A Visit With Old Joe
- Yankee Doodling (1997)