Music

Grade: 4
Duration: ca. 8'30"
Instrumentation
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Suite Dreams (2007)

Premiere: April 22nd, 2007, by Jasper High School Wind Ensemble, James Goodhue, conductor

Commissioned by the Jasper High School Wind Ensemble.

Suite Dreams is the fourth and final(?) of my Parody Suite pieces. Unlike the others (Chester Leaps In, ImPercynations, and MetaMarch), it's not intentionally funny and tongue-in-cheek in character. Rather, it's more a dream-like fantasia based on Holst's First Suite in Eb. The motivic material is almost exclusively from the inverted Chaconne melody in Mvt. I and from Mvt. III.

NOTE: There are optional extra parts NOT included with the standard set distributed by Hal Leonard. You can download those parts here. Although they are "optional," I strongly recommend you use them if you have these particular instruments available, especially Contrabass Clarinet and Contrabassoon. If you need a score that shows these staves, please contact me.

Download the parts here (PDF, letter-size):

Orchestra

Band

Mixed