Root Category Migrated - Shipped (printed) - Percussion

reduction with Rhythm section (recording is with wind ensemble)

The Concerto for tuba and winds is in my usual Third-Stream style, but I utilized
many new techniques for the first time in this piece. Jazz, rock, hip-hop and many kinds
of classical styles come together in the Concerto. Polymeter, improvisation and intuitive
swing notation play important roles in this piece as well as traditional four-part
counterpoint and ancient Greek form. It is simply titled Concerto in a classical fashion
but each movement has a more descriptive title.
I. Swing Low
II. Adagio
III. Cutting Contest

I utilized a customized variation on the classical concerto form: a sonata-allegro
first movement, a slow second movement and a theme and variations finale.
Philosophically, this piece explores the traditional nature of a concerto from several
different angles. The first movement explores the cooperative side of a concerto. One
Latin root of the word concerto is conserere, which means to join. The soloist and wind
ensemble cooperate to produce many layers of polymeter in Swing Low. The Latin root
certamen, on the other hand, means to fight. So while the first movement is a
cooperative effort, the third movement, Cutting Contest, explores the idea of a musical
battle between the solo tuba and the wind ensemble on a familiar tune.

On March 6th, 2012, the Concerto was premiered in Seattle. Erin Bodnar led the
University of Washington Wind Ensemble with myself soloing. The Central Washington
University Wind Ensemble then recorded it with Dean Snavely conducting.

This reduction of Concerto features two different versions of the third movement
to allow for players to navigate the virtuosic fingering acrobatics on an E-Flat or F tuba.
The solo lines at letter E were inspired by Arban’s Carnival of Venice.

Curtis Peacock
January 26, 2014

From L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2, this has been arranged for Brass Choir

4 Trumpets, 2 Horns, 3 Trombones, Euphonium, Tuba and Percussion

ITEC Day 1 2016 Recital Pieces

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CM2675 The Struggle Within - Jonathon Oliver (TN Tech)

Tuba Ensemble

CM0168 Quartet for Brass - Ramsoe/Buttery (The Alchemy Quartet)

Tuba Quartet

CM 0108 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - Mozart/Werden (The Alchemy Quartet)

Tuba Quartet

TEP10752 Procession of the Nobles - Rimsky-Korsakov/Butler (KS State U)

Tuba Quartet

CM2875 The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy/Maxwell (KS State U)

Tuba Quartet

OV1001 Cat Affairs - Anna Baadsvik (Beth Mitchell and Alex Lapins)

Tuba or Euphonium duet and Piano

TEP10287 Tubas Latinas - Aldo Rafael Forte (Oakland U)

Tuba Ensemble and Percussion

BW0494 Suite for Six Tubas - Barton Cummings (UCLA)

Tuba Ensemble

TEP10221 Quatre Chansons (UCLA)

Tuba Quartet

CM2117 Four Paintings by Grant Wood - Barbara York (John Manning)

Tuba and Piano

TEP10697 Concerto per Flicorno Basso - Amilcare Ponchielli (Benjamin Pierce)

Tuba and Piano

OV0713 Vise (Simple Song) - Skomsvoll (Oystein Baadsvik)

Tuba and Piano

ITEC Day 3 2016 Recital Pieces

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CM2912 Prophecies - Barbara York (Mark Norman)

Tuba and Piano

CM2906 Snapshots - Barbara York (Mark Norman)

Tuba and Piano

CM2138 Every Day an Alleluia - Barbara York (Mark Norman and Joe Dollard)

Euph, Tuba and Piano

TEP10287 Tubas Latinas - Aldo Rafael Forte (U of MT)

Tuba Ensemble

CM2045 Tubas of the Apocalypse - Benjamin McMillan (U of MO at KC)

Tuba Quartet

TEP10598 Londonderry Air - Traditional/Mehlan (Baylor)

Tuba Quartet

CM1740 Color Code - Elizabeth Raum (Zach Collins)

French Horn, Tuba and Piano

CM2585 Big Sky - Frank Gulino (Zach Collins)

French Horn, Tuba and Piano

TEP11091 R.S.V.B. Hymn - Gail Robertson (R.S.V.B Quartet)

Tuba Quartet

CM1474 P.C. Tuba Quartet - Barbara York (R.S.V.B Quartet)

Tuba Quartet

ITEC Day 4 2016 Recital Pieces

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TEP11089/11090 Hexagon - Anne McGinty (Mark Nelson and Matt Tropman)

6 Movements - Euph/Tuba Solo and Duet with Piano

TEP10034 Contrapunctus IX - Bach/Forbes (IN U of Purdue)

Tuba Quartet

TEP10788 Bacchanale from “Samson and Dalila” - Saint-Saens/Wilson (E Carolina U)

Tuba Quartet

TEP10733 A Little Monster Music - Elizabeth Raum (E Carolina U)

Tuba Ensemble

TEP11088 - Prelude in C# Minor - Rachmaninov/Renshaw (Ensemble Subsonique)

Tuba Ensemble

CM2594 White Keys - Zach Collins (Atlas)

Tuba Quartet

CM2860 Ascendance - Ben McMillan (Atlas)

Tuba Quartet

CM1775 Power Play - Frank Gulino (Atlas)

Tuba Quartet

TEP10438 Mars - Holst/Butler (Appalachian State U)

Tuba Ensemble

TEP10287 Tubas Latinas - Aldo Rafael Forte (Oakland U)

Tuba Ensemble and Percussion

CM1481 Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky/Sutherland (Presidio Brass)

Brass Quintet

CM2925 Shenandoah - arr. Scott Sutherland (Presidio Brass)

Brass Quartet and Piano

The first movement, Jason and the Argonauts, represents the crew of heroes on the "Argo," the ship built to carry them in their quest for the Golden Fleece.

The Symplegades, or clashing islands, impeded the entrance to the Euxine Sea. These small rocky islands floated on the surface of the water, and in their tossings and heavings occasionally came together to crush anything caught between them. Jason, on the advice of Phineus, let a dove fly through the islands first, and when they clashed, just missing her, Jason passed safely through on the rebound.

Medea was the beautiful and seductive daughter of the Colchian king who owned the powerful sorceress and gives Jason a charm to help him complete the tasks her father demanded that Jason do to win the Fleece. One of those tasks, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth, required that Jason yoke two fire-breathing bulls to a plow and sow the teeth of the dragon which Cadmus had slain and from which would grow a crop of armed men. When this belligerent army rose from the ground, Jason, using the charm Medea had given him, caused such confusion in the ranks of his assailants that they turned on each other until there were none left.

The final movement, The Golden Fleece, comes as a tribute to the success of the group of heroes in their long and difficult quest.

The first movement, Jason and the Argonauts, represents the crew of heroes on the "Argo," the ship built to carry them in their quest for the Golden Fleece.

The Symplegades, or clashing islands, impeded the entrance to the Euxine Sea. These small rocky islands floated on the surface of the water, and in their tossings and heavings occasionally came together to crush anything caught between them. Jason, on the advice of Phineus, let a dove fly through the islands first, and when they clashed, just missing her, Jason passed safely through on the rebound.

Medea was the beautiful and seductive daughter of the Colchian king who owned the powerful sorceress and gives Jason a charm to help him complete the tasks her father demanded that Jason do to win the Fleece. One of those tasks, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth, required that Jason yoke two fire-breathing bulls to a plow and sow the teeth of the dragon which Cadmus had slain and from which would grow a crop of armed men. When this belligerent army rose from the ground, Jason, using the charm Medea had given him, caused such confusion in the ranks of his assailants that they turned on each other until there were none left.

The final movement, The Golden Fleece, comes as a tribute to the success of the group of heroes in their long and difficult quest.

The first movement, Jason and the Argonauts, represents the crew of heroes on the "Argo," the ship built to carry them in their quest for the Golden Fleece.

The Symplegades, or clashing islands, impeded the entrance to the Euxine Sea. These small rocky islands floated on the surface of the water, and in their tossings and heavings occasionally came together to crush anything caught between them. Jason, on the advice of Phineus, let a dove fly through the islands first, and when they clashed, just missing her, Jason passed safely through on the rebound.

Medea was the beautiful and seductive daughter of the Colchian king who owned the powerful sorceress and gives Jason a charm to help him complete the tasks her father demanded that Jason do to win the Fleece. One of those tasks, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth, required that Jason yoke two fire-breathing bulls to a plow and sow the teeth of the dragon which Cadmus had slain and from which would grow a crop of armed men. When this belligerent army rose from the ground, Jason, using the charm Medea had given him, caused such confusion in the ranks of his assailants that they turned on each other until there were none left.

The final movement, The Golden Fleece, comes as a tribute to the success of the group of heroes in their long and difficult quest.