Lifeboat Variations
General Info
Year: 1989 / 2014
Duration: 20:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Raven Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $215.00; (digital) - $105.00 | Score Only (print) - $45.00; (digital) - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II (I doubling C Piccolo)
Oboes I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinets I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra-Alto Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Harp (optional)
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion (5 to 7 players), including:
- Bass Drums (2; large concert and small marching (or large loose Tom-tom))
- Bongos
- Castanets (machine)
- Chimes
- Claves
- Cork-pop
- Cowbell (large)
- Crash Cymbals
- Field Drum (gut snares)
- Finger Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Guiro
- Maracas
- Marimba (4.0 octaves, optional 5.0 octaves)
- Ratchet (attached)
- Roto-toms (4; small and medium, tight)
- Slapstick (high)
- Sleigh Bells
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-tams (2; small and huge)
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks (5)
- Tenor Drum (no snares)
- Tom-toms (4) (concert)
- Triangle(s)
- Vibraphone
- Wind Machine (optional)
- Wood Block (high)
- Wood Slit Drums (4) (optional)
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
An “Every Person’s Guide to the Band”, good for community or school audiences. Introduction and series of accompanied show-off variations, one for each instrument or section, on a familiar round (Row Your Boat). Wide range of styles and moods, high-energy cosmic finale. Optional terse narration between movements; narrator or conductor may also lead an audience sing of the theme round before the piece starts. 3 (optional) quick sound-making demos in the intro. (NOTE: Several variations for outsize/special instruments are optional.)
- Condensed Program Note by composer
Media
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Air (1975)
- Around the Year (1965-2002)
- Cornucopia of Rounds (1976-80)
- Fog Song (2007/)
- Glockenspiel March (1968-97)
- Hill Dance (2015)
- The Last Stand (2013)
- Lifeboat Variations (1970-79/2014)
- Nigun Prophecy (2018)
- Prime Time (Toccata Brillante) (2000)
- Principles (Oratorio) (2010)
- Rain Dance (2016)
- Rowboat Shuffle (1975/2014)
- Sacred Winds (2007)
- Savage Elements
- Savage Nature (2021)
- 3 Outside (2008)
- Siege (1969)
- Spring Rondo (1971)
- StarGazers (2015)
- Tipsy Waltz (1975/2014)
- Twinkle Boat (1975/2014)
- Vignettes for Concert Band (2015)