Aloft!

Jack Stamp

Jack Stamp

General Info

Year: 1999
Duration: c. 1:45
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $75.00   |   Score Only - $8.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
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
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:

• Bass Drum
• Cymbals (crash and suspended)
• Glockenspiel
• Snare Drum
• Tom-toms (2)
• Triangle (large)
• Tubular Bells
• Vibraphone
• Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Aloft is my eighth fanfare for band. It was commissioned in 1997 for the 50th Anniversary of the United States Air Force and is dedicated to the men and women of the Air Combat Command (ACC) Heritage of America Band at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, with a special congratulation to James Nierescher (timpanist with the ACC Band) on his retirement.

The work is a combination of my harmonic language with influences from the rhythms of "pop" music. It is high energy and very challenging rhythmically.

- Program Note by composer

Media

• MP3 at Neil A Kjos Music Company
• Audio CD: Keystone Wind Ensemble (Jack Stamp, conductor).

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Messiah University (Mechanicsburg, Penn.) Wind Ensemble (James Colonna, conductor) - 17 November 2023

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)

All Wind Works

• AirLink (2009)
• The All-Seeing Sky (as arranger) (2021/2023)
• Aloft! (1997)
• Antithigram (1977/1988)
• As If Morning Might Arrive (1994/1996)
• Aubrey Fanfare (1998)
• Bandancing (2004)
• Be Thou My Vision. See: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
• The Beltway Jam (2006)
• Border Dance (2021)
• Cage Dance (2020)
• Canticle (1995)
• Capriccio (2023)
• Cenotaph (1992)
• Cheers! (1995)
• Chorale and Toccata (1993)
• Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (1997)
• Chorale, Scherzo, and Dance
• Claw's Clause
• Cloudsplitter Fanfare (2000)
• Concertino for Solo Percussionist and Band (2009/2011)
• Concerto for Euphonium (as transcriber) (2018/2020)
• Divertimento in F (1995)
• Down East Fanfare (2003)
• Elegy and Affirmation (1994)
• Elegy for English Horn and Band (1999)
• Ellacombe Variations
• Encomium (2022)
• Ere the World Began to Be (1996)
• Escapade (2007)
• Essay on Yigdal
• Fanfare, from All Hail the Power (2002)
• Fanfare for a New Era (1997)
• Fanfare for the Great Hall (1992)
• Fanfare Furiosity (2018)
• Fanfare Saltarello (2021)
• Fanfare: Sinfonia (2003)
• Fanfare, Song and Fugue (2006)
• The Final Beguine (2018)
• Five Songs from the Hills (2010)
• Forefathers (2021)
• Four Maryland Songs (2000)
• Gambol (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Gavorkna Fanfare (1991)
• Held Still in Quick of Grace (1998)
• I Have a Rendezvous... (2017)
• In Final Obedience (1994)
• In the Silence of the Canyon (2019)
• In This Hid Clearing... (2001/2006)
• Infamy
• Iridium
• Irish Tune from County Derry/Shepherd's Hey (as transcriber) (1918/2021)
• Jigsaw for Tenor Saxophone and Band
• Junket (2015)
• Luther Hymn
• Melting of Winter's Snow (1999)
• Miniature Overture (2010)
• Nagrobek
• Navigating Cresson
• No Brief Candle (2019)
• Panhandle Prelude (2013)
• Parkway Jam Fanfare
• Past the Equinox (1989)
• Pastime (1999)
• Pervicacity (Flex instrumentation) (2020/2022)
• Prayer and Jubilation
• Prayers for a Troubled Nation (2016)
• Psalm 150 (2013)
• Remembrance of Things to Come (1990)
• Repetend
• Ricercare (2001)
• Rondeau (2018/2023)
• Rondo alla BCP (2023)
• San Luis Snapshots (2016)
• Scenes from Terezin (2009)
• Skyline
• A Song of Hope (2013)
• Southpaw (2014)
• The Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2002)
• Stranger at My Door (2021)
• Symphony No. 1 (2006)
• Three Organ Preludes (as transcriber) (2020)
• Three Places in England
• Three Sketches for Wind Band (2018)
• Two Overtures for Film (as transcriber) (1957/1967/2021)
• Uptick (2018/2021)
• Variations and Chorale (2017)
• Variations on a Bach Chorale (2000)
• With Trump and Wing

Resources

• Jack Stamp website.
• Stamp, J. (1999). Aloft! [score]. Neil A. Kjos: San Diego, Calif.