Pageant Overture
General Info
Year: 1963
Duration: c. 6:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Theodore Presser Music
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print?
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- Condensed Score
- C Piccolo
- D-flat Piccolo
- Flute I-II
- Oboe I-II
- Bassoon I-II
- E-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- E-flat Alto Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
- B-flat Cornet/Trumpet I-II-III
- Horn in F I-II-III-IV
- Trombone I-II-III
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Percussion, including:
- *Bass Drum
- *Crash Cymbals
- *Gong
- *Snare Drum
- *Suspended Cymbal
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Pageant Overture was first published in 1963 and dedicated to Frederick Fennell, conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble at the time. The overture is written in a fast-slow-fast form with some broadening of the tempo near the end. Although dissonant chords abound in the quicker sections, the Andante near the middle begins with a flowing melody and sustained tonal accompaniment. The same thematic material is developed in a variety of ways before the second Allegro recapitulates the opening material a whole step lower, drops dynamically to a whisper near the end, then crescendos to a powerful fortissimo with the lower brass repeating the same fast three-note motif heard at the very beginning.
- Program Note from Program Notes for Band
Media
State Ratings
- Louisiana: IV
- Tennessee: V
- Virginia: V
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Symphony Band (John Madden, conductor) – 5 March 1998
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Elegy for a Young American (1967)
- Festive Music, A (1968)
- Introduction Chorale and Jubilee(1978)
- Masks, The(1955)
- Ode to Independence (1974)
- Pageant Overture (1963)
- Prelude (1959)
- Suite for Eight Horns (1952)
- Suite for Five Trumpets (1963)
- Tribute (Lo Presti) (1960)
- Tundra (1981)
Resources
- Girsberger, Russ. Percussion Assignments for Band & Wind Ensemble: Volume 2 L-Z. Galesville, MD: Meredith Music Publications, 2004, 186. Print.
- Lo Presti, R. (1963). Pageant Overture [score]. Theodore Presser Co.: Bryn Mawr, Penn.
- Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 391.