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Awake the Iron
General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 3:30
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $48.00 | Score Only - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Bassoon
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Baritone Horn
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
- Bass Drum
- Bongo
- Brake Drum
- Cymbals (crash and suspended)
- Snare Drum
- Tam-tams
- Tom-toms
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Woodblock
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
"Desperta ferro!," or "Awake the Iron!" was the battle cry of Medieval Spanish soldiers called the Almogavars. In the dim light of dawn, as they prepared for battle, these fierce soldiers would beat their swords on rocks shouting this phrase. The sparks that flew from the rocks in the eerie light of dawn, together with the soldier's call to arms, would give any enemy pause. Awake the Iron, with its insistent unisons, energetic rhythms, modal themes, and powerful percussive writing, mirrors the ferocious intensity of the medieval battlefield. J.W. Pepper "Editor's Choice."
-Program Note by Scott Watson
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Kealing Middle School Wind Ensemble (Jack Wilds, conductor) - 2010
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Kealing Middle School (Austin, Tx.) Wind Ensemble (Jack Wilds, conductor) – 16 December 2010 (2010 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
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- Rock Solid (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Aesop's Fables (1999)
- Appalachian Hoedown
- Aquatica (2014)
- At the Feast of Stephen (2009)
- Awake the Iron (2010)
- Balkan Seven (2018)
- Celebratory Fanfare (2017)
- Country Dance
- Concert Piece (Horn and Band)
- Dorian Haiku (2014)
- Dragonship (2018)
- El Cid (2014)
- Escape from Thunder Mountain (2020)
- Extraordinary Machines of Clockwork and Steam (2019)
- Fantasy on an Old English Air
- Figurations
- Freedom Brigade
- Galliard (2019)
- Ghosts in the Graveyard
- Golden Legacy
- Hanukah Is Here
- Joyful Rock
- Lion of Ireland (2011)
- Magic Valley
- Morning Star (2005)
- Night Journey (Watson)
- On Holiday
- Rock Solid (2020)
- Siege of Badon Hill
- Slam Jam! (2004)
- Terracotta Warriors (2017)
- Walkin' Cool