Silversides
Subtitle: To Answer the Call
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 2:30
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00; (digital) - $55.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bar Chimes
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Gong
- Marimba
- Metal Trash Can
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tom-Toms
- Vibraphone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Audiences will quickly embrace this musical depiction of the iconic submarine USS Silversides. The haunting opening statement portrays the vessel submerging to embark on her perilous assignment. A dramatic middle section and fiery closing yield a vivid picture of the heroic sea vessel in action.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- State University of New York, Potsdam, Crane Wind Ensemble (Brian K. Doyle, conductor) - 18 October 2023
- Aledo (Tx.) Middle School Honor Winds (Ryan Johnstone, conductor) - 16 December 2021 (2021 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Flourishes (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
All Wind Works
- Across the Great Plains (2017)
- After the Darkness (2021)
- Albany Fanfare (2011)
- All Things So Wondrous (2022)
- Allegro Appasionato
- And Bless Us Every One (2011)
- And With This New Day (2025)
- Antiphon (2011)
- Battle Command
- Beyond These Horizons (2024)
- Big Bend (2023)
- The Blue Orchid (2005)
- Blue Sky (2002)
- But Joy Comes... (2010)
- Captain Dane (2003)
- Carnegie Anthem (2012)
- Carpathia (2007)
- Carpathia (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Caverns of Sonora (2019)
- Champions Victorious (2024)
- Chan Chan (2024)
- Chisholm
- Congolese (2017)
- Corps of Discovery (2010)
- Country Day Dances (2004)
- Courtlandt County Festival (2004)
- Credo (2012)
- Curtain Up!
- Dances Americanesque (2008)
- Declaration and Dance (2010)
- Destined to Fly (2018)
- Egyptique (2010)
- The Eighth Day (2022)
- El Pato Loco (2010)
- El Vaquero! (2017)
- Every Day New (2018)
- Excelsior! (2008)
- Exhaltations! (2006)
- Fandango Caliente (2017)
- Fantasia on "Adeste Fidelis" (as arranger) (2007)
- Festive Proclamation (2015)
- Flourishes! (2019)
- Flourishes! (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2021)
- Gratitude (2024)
- Great Wall (2016)
- Hark! (A Holiday Celebration) (As arranger)
- Heavenwards (2015)
- Heroes Triumphant (2012)
- Hi! (2024)
- Hopak! (2014)
- Holiday Party Mix (2024)
- In Autumn (2009)
- In Heavenly Peace (as arranger) (1818/2025)
- In Joyful Celebration (2003)
- In This Beautiful Place (2023)
- Ironclads (The Monitor and the Merrimack) (2012)
- Journey of the Bonfire (2017)
- Jupiter (as arranger) (1916/2006)
- Kamehameha (2006)
- King of Angels (as arranger) (2023)
- Kitty Hawk, 1903 (2010)
- Krakatoa (2008)
- La Lechuza
- Los Bailes Calientes (2024)
- Maesong (2004)
- Mars (as arranger) (1916/2009)
- The Mighty 97th (2008)
- New Era (2023)
- New Horizons March (2016)
- Of Gentle Spirit (2005)
- Paintings (2011)
- Paradise Awaiting... (2017)
- Plains West (1996)
- Quicksilver (2018)
- Resplendence (2017)
- Silversides (2021)
- Solidarity! (2025)
- A Song of Courage (2024)
- The Southern Dawn (1998/2002)
- Spit-Fire (2013)
- Spring River Fantasy (2011)
- Stormchasing (2016)
- Struck by the Ree (2023)
- Summit Fanfare (2008)
- The Tahoka Galop (2004)
- Tangelridge (2009)
- Tambora! (2013)
- Tambora! (Flex instrumentation) (2013/2020)
- Terracotta (2009)
- Three Scottish Vistas (2007)
- To Her Majesty's Delight (2020)
- To Sail the Majestic Seas (2024/2025)
- Tudor Sketches (2013)
- Tundra (2018)
- Turquoise (2024)
- Wedgwood March (2002)
- What Greater Calling (2023)
- Wings of Justice (2002)
- The Wings of Mercury (2018)
- With Valor and Brave Heart (2011)
- The World's Greatest Show! (2022)
- Yonaguska (2016)
- Zia (2014)
Resources
- Perusal score
- William Owens website. Accessed 14 December 2021