THE MARBLED MIDNIGHT MILE

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1 ORES and SETS DISTRIBUTED BY HAL LEONARD STEVEN BRYANT THE MARBLED MIDNIGHT MILE (009) ERUSAL ORE NOT OR ERORMANCE USE Duration: ca 8 0 ull Score (9 x, included ith set) iccolo lute lute Ooe Bassoon B Clarinet B Clarinet B Clarinet E Alto Clarinet (otional) * B Bass Clarinet E Alto Saxohone E Alto Saxohone B Tenor Saxohone E Baritone Saxohone B Trumet B Trumet B Trumet Horn Horn Tromone Tromone Tromone Euhonium - * Contraass (otional) iano (otional) Celesta (otional) Timani Glockensiel Virahone Sus Cymal; Bass Drum * E Alto Clarinet and Euhonium TC arts availale as a free donload at stevenryantcom If you have any questions aout the iece, lease do not hesitate to contact me at info@stevenryantcom Advertise your erformance of this and any other of my orks on my esite: visit the Ucoming Concerts section of stevenryantcom to enter your concert information It s free and only takes a coule of minutes Version: If errata are found, they ill e osted at stevenryantcom Coyright Steven Bryant / Gorilla Salad roductions (AA) Made in USA All rights reserved

2 ABOUT THE MARBLED MIDNIGHT MILE The Marled Midnight Mile is a comanion to my earlier orks Dusk and irst Light - the three of them together form a loosely-related night cycle This neest ork is the middle of the cycle, evoking the myriad andering thoughts that occur in the solitude of night, and the title suggests an extended inner ourney through a shifting mental landscae There is no singular rogram or story to the iece; rather I hoe the listener finds his or her on associations and memories from long nights sent in quiet contemlation ERORMANCE NOTES The ork is meditative and sacious, and therefore the temo must not e rushed Trust the ensemle to develo the reath and emouchure control necessary for the slo temo of this ork The tutti ff climax at m 7 must e extremely oerful; after so many minutes of quiet, introsective music, this is the moment to fill the hall ith a sustained all of sound As ith any ork of this nature, a teid, moderate, safe erformance is far orse than rong notes or technical mistakes S: I ve rovided a numer of cues for grous ho don t ossess the necessary instrumentation, or need reinforcement for secific solo instruments lease only use these cues hen asolutely necessary the ideal sound is that of the non-cued arts Also, feel free to mix and match eg, in mm -, if you only have to Tromones and a, the can lay the Tn art, ut the Euhoniums don t necessarily need to lay their cues, since the Tromone arts are covered Use your ears to find the est lend and alance, of course ROGRAMMING SUGGESTION While I don t envision the three orks of this night cycle eing rogrammed ack-to-ack, they could erhas serve as milestones on a concert rogram (ith other orks intersersed in eteen), ith Dusk ainting the arrival of darkness, The Marled Midnight Mile taking us through the long night, and irst Light heralding the return of daylight ABOUT THE COMOSER Steven Bryant s ( 97, Little Rock, Arkansas) musical interests san a variety of styles, and his catalog includes numerous orks for ind ensemle, orchestra, electronic and electro-acoustic creations, chamer music, and music for the We He studied comosition ith ohn Corigliano at The uilliard School, Cindy McTee at the University of North Texas, and rancis McBeth at Ouachita University More information is availale at stevenryantcom The Marled Midnight Mile as commissioned y a consortium of ands in the state of Neraska sonsored y the Neraska Chater of hi Beta Mu The folloing institutions and directors articiated in the consortium: Aurora High School, Dan Sodomka Blair Area Community Band, oe Chaman Class C All-State Band, Stacy Bean Class D All-State Band, Stan ohnson Doane College, Dr ay W Gilert Douglas County West High School, Randy Garton Elkhorn High School, Dr Michelle Bluford remont High School, Dr Brian Anderson Gretna High School, Chris Tucker and Alex Wimmer Hastings College, Dr Daniel Laing Heartland Community School, Royce Scheitzer Lincoln East High School Band, Tom Thore and Lance Nielsen Loomis High School, anet almer Loo City ulic Schools, Kyle Knau Millard South High School, Rex Barker Neraska City High School, Greg Olsen and oel Sunderman Neraska Wesleyan University, Dr Samuel Zitek Norfolk High School, ohn urro and Todd Cook Omaha ulic Schools, Michelle ohnson, Suervisor of Instrumental Music eru State College, Dr atrick ortney lattevie High School, Marla anak and erry Layher Scott Middle School, Dick Marolf and acque Rush Shickley High School, Stan ohnson University of Neraska-Kearney, Dr Neal Schnoor University of Neraska-Lincoln, Dr Carolyn Barer University of Neraska-Omaha, Dr ames Saker Wayne State College, Dr David Bohnert Westside High School, Roger Groth Wood River Rural r/sr High School, Erika Wolfe Note: If you erform this ork, lease send a coy of the rogram from each erformance, ith this iece circled, to: ATTN: erformance Credits, AA Concert Division AA Building, One Lincoln laza, Ne York, NY 00

3 ORES and SETS DISTRIBUTED BY HAL LEONARD Transosed Steven Bryant Score The Marled Midnight Mile 009 Commissioned y a consortium of Neraska Bands and sonsored y hi Beta Mu iccolo lute Ooe Largo e molto legato {q = c 8} Bassoon Clarinet in B Bass Clarinet Alto Clar (ot) is notated on Clar and Bass Clar staff Horn in (Only Cl has Hn cue) Horn in Alto Saxohone Tenor Saxohone Baritone Saxohone Trumet in B ERUSAL ORE NOT OR ERORMANCE USE Tromone Euhonium Contraass (ot) Timani Tromone Tromone N Hn ( ) ( ) LAY LAY Glockensiel Virahone MOTOR O Sus Cymal Bass Drum Celesta (ot) iano (ot) Coyright 009 Steven Bryant / Gorilla Salad roductions (AA) stevenryantcom

4 The Marled Midnight Mile l O Bsn B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax LAY layer ERUSAL ORE NOT OR ERORMANCE USE (tutti, if laying cues) Tt B (Clar melds seamlessly into Tt entrance) Hn Tn Euh C Tim Glk Vi Medium mallets (motor off) é ë Cel no

5 l The Marled Midnight Mile O Bsn B Cl B Cl Alto Sax LAY Tutti LAY Ten Sax Bar Sax Tt B Hn Tn Euh C Tim, N N Glk Vi lv Cel no

6 The Marled Midnight Mile 6 l O Bsn B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax Tt B Hn Tn Euh l # 6 Cl only Cl # LAY # NOT OR ERORMANCE USE Solo Bass Clarinet Solo # # # + icc colla l Clar Cl # Tutti # ERUSAL ORE + A Cl # # # # # C Tim Glk Vi Medium mallets Cel no

7 l O Bsn B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax The Marled Midnight Mile (icc sounding at ritten itch) - icc 7 È (hole-ste trill in oth arts) Ÿ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ÿ È " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 Tt B Hn 7 Solo Offstage (otional) ruato Tn Euh C Tim ~~~ Gliss ~~~ Gliss Glk Vi Cel no É Soft mallets lv semre " Soft mallets lv semre " Imrovise on these itches in a sarse, tranquil manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring Imrovise on these itches in a sarse, tranquil manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring Continue to imrovise on these itches in a similar manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring Continue to imrovise on these itches in a similar manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring

8 6 The Marled Midnight Mile 5 l O Bsn B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Cl layer Cl layer Cl layer layer # # + A Cl Alto Clar (A Cl doules Cl through m 80) Tutti Ten Sax Bar Sax Bass Clarinet layer # Tt B 5 Hn Tn ERUSAL ORE NOT OR ERORMANCE USE Euh C Tim Glk Vi Continue to imrovise on these itches in a similar manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring Continue to imrovise on these itches in a similar manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring h h Cel no Continue to imrovise on these itches in a similar manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring Continue to imrovise on these itches in a similar manner Vary the order of the notes The rhythm should e random Do NOT damen - let all notes ring h h

9 l O Bsn B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax Tt B Hn Tn Euh 6 6 More motion Tutti # Tutti # # Tutti More motion # The Marled Midnight Mile LAY + icc # # # # # # oco rit (l loer octave) # # oco rit # # # 7 C Tim Glk Vi Cel no æ É æ É

10 B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax Tt B Hn Tn 8 The Marled Midnight Mile do NOT accelerate (non accelerando) 67 - icc l O Bsn # # # Euh C Tim Glk Vi Cel no 67 æ # # Hard mallets do NOT accelerate (non accelerando) # # # # Ÿ I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # # # (hole-ste trill in oth arts) Ÿ È ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ÿ I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (hole-ste trill) Ÿ È ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (hole-ste trill) # æ f f æ Hard mallets f æ # æ Tutti molto rit æ + icc colla l molto rit

11 l O Bsn B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax 7 a temo # # The Marled Midnight Mile # # # # # # # # # # 9 Tt B Hn Tn Euh 7 a temo # # C 5 5 Tim Glk Vi Cel no æ É æ

12 0 The Marled Midnight Mile l O rit - icc 80 Sloer {q = c } 5 5 l layer Bsn 5 B Cl B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax # A Sx layer Euhonium Tt B Hn Tn Euh rit 80 Hn Hn layer C 5 Tim 5 Glk 5 Vi Cel no æ

13 l O Bsn B Cl Alto Sax Ten Sax Bar Sax Hn Euh C Tim Glk Vi Cel no B Cl Tt B Tn layer layer Horn in Hn A Sx only The Marled Midnight Mile ERUSAL ORE NOT OR ERORMANCE USE

14 STEVEN BRYANT - 00 CATALOG of WORKS TITLE DIICULTY GRADE SET ORE DURATION YEAR DISTRIBUTOR CONTACT HL ART NO (set) WIND ENSEMBLE / SYMHONIC BAND Interrution Overture Easy $9500 $000 5'0" 998 Hal Leonard Any music retailer 009 Bloom Intermediate 5 $9500 $000 6'0" 00 Hal Leonard Any music retailer 005 MetaMarch Intermediate 5 $500 $000 '00" 00 Hal Leonard Any music retailer 00 The Marled Midnight Mile Intermediate $500 $000 7'0 009 Hal Leonard info@stevenryantcom 0000 Dusk Intermediate $500 $500 5'0" 00 Hal Leonard Any music retailer 005 Wings That Work Intermediate $500 $000 5'0" 00 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - Chester Leas In Advanced 5 $500 $500 '0" 997 Hal Leonard Any music retailer 009 irst Light Advanced 5 $9500 $500 8'0" 007 Hal Leonard Any music retailer Imercynations Advanced 5 $9500 $500 6'00" 00 Hal Leonard Any music retailer 00 Radiant oy Advanced 5 $500 $000 5'00" 006 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - Rise Advanced 5 $00 (rental) $000 5'5" 00 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - Stamede Advanced 5 $5 (rental) $5000 6'00" 00 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - Suite Dreams Advanced 5 $500 $000 8'5" 007 Hal Leonard Any music retailer 0060 Ecstatic Waters Advanced 5+ $95 (rental) $9000 '00" 008 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom Axis Mundi rofessional 6 $95 (rental) $5000 '00" 009 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom Alchemy in Silent Saces rofessional 6 $00 (rental)* $9000 '00" 000 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - Concerto for Wind Ensemle - Mvt I rofessional 6 $50 (rental) $5000 8'0" 007 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - Monkey rofessional 6 $00 (rental) $5000 7'0" 998 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - RedLine rofessional 6 $00 (rental) $000 7'0" 000 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - MIXED LARGE ENSEMBLE A Million Suns at Midnight (vers : Band, Str Orch, SATB Chorus) Intermediate $50 (rental) $5000 0'00" 999 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - A Million Suns at Midnight (vers : Band, Chorus) Intermediate $50 (rental) $5000 0'00" 999 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - ORCHESTRA Loose Id for Orchestra rofessional 6 $00 (rental) $5000 '0" 996 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - Alchemy in Silent Saces rofessional 6 $00 (rental)* $9000 '00" 006 Steven Bryant rental@stevenryantcom - Rise (string orchestra) Intermediate $000 $000 5'00" 00 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - Dusk Intermediate $500 $500 5'0" 008 Hal Leonard Any music retailer CHAMBER Rise (sax quartet - SATB) Advanced $000 $000 0'00" 00 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - RedLine (ercussion quartet) rofessional $000 $000 7'5" 005 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - Loose Id (rass quintet, timani) rofessional $000 $000 '0" 995 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - Loose Id (rass ensemle: Tt, Hn, Tn,, drumset) rofessional $000 $000 '0" 006 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - RedLine (solo iano) rofessional - $500 7'0" 999 Steven Bryant info@stevenryantcom - HAL LEONARD INTERNATIONAL SALES: intsales@halleonardcom * any single movement of Alchemy in Silent Saces: $00 This information, along ith donloadale recordings, erusal scores, and much more, is availale at: stevenryantcom If you have any questions, lease don't hesitate to contact Steve at info@stevenryantcom Steven Bryant ( 97, Little Rock, AR, USA) is an active comoser and conductor ith numerous erformances around the orld His first orchestral ork, Loose Id for Orchestra, hailed y celerated comoser Samuel Adler as orchestrated like a virtuoso, as remiered y The uilliard Symhony and is featured on a release y the Boling Green hilharmonia on Alany Records His recent orchestral ork, Alchemy in Silent Saces, commissioned y ames Dereist and The uilliard School, as remiered y the uilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall in May, 006 Steven studied comosition ith ohn Corigliano at The uilliard School, Cindy McTee at the University of North Texas, and rancis McBeth at Ouachita University stevenryantcom cminternationalcom UDATED 0 March 00 - rices suect to change ithout notice