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Mercury Rising
General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 5:25
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $32.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Percussion (7 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Concert Toms (4)
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Timpani
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Featuring a balanced ensemble of keyboard and battery percussion, Mercury Rising is, in essence, a double fugue that gives all players the opportunity to shine. After a brief anticipatory introduction, the tempo picks up and the keyboard percussion introduces the primary fugue theme (or subject), with entries by the marimba, the xylophone, and then the vibraphone. The battery joins the excitement before taking over the fugue subject, featuring the snare drum and concert toms. By the time the timpani takes over the subject, all members of the ensemble have entered, leading to a climactic explosion. After a brief developmental 3/4 section, in which fragments of the fugue subject are strewn about the ensemble, intensity continues to build to the end of the piece, as the theme appears in its loudest and fastest presentation yet.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. W.F. West High School Percussion Ensemble
- Audio CD: Farmington Junior High School Symphonic Band (Heath Wolf, conductor) - 2011
State Ratings
- Indiana: 113 – LARGE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES
- Missouri: Percussion Ensemble Grade A
- Ohio: PERCUSSION ENS B
- Texas: Percussion Ensemble Class I
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Dane Heuchemer, conductor) - 16 April 2023
- Krimmel Intermediate School (Spring, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Stetson Begin, conductor) – 10 February 2022 (2022 TMEA Conference, San Antonio)
- Roosevelt High School (Sioux Falls, S.D.) Symphonic Percussion Ensemble (Michael Hench, conductor) - 13 February 2021
- Grisham Middle School (Austin, Tx.) Honors Band (Dave Reyes, conductor) - 20 December 2019 (2019 Midwest Clinic)
- Westfield High School (Houston, Tx.) Percussion Ensemble (Cam Simpson, conductor) – 2017
- Farmington (Utah) Junior High Symphonic Band (Heath Wolf, conductor) – 15 December 2011 (2011 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Apollo's Chariot (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Appalachian Air (Flex instrumentation) (2003/2021)
- Dark Matter (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Downtown Dash (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Such Small Things (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Ye Merry Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Apollo's Chariot (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2021)
- Appalachian Air (Flex instrumentation) (2003/2021)
- As Above, So Below (2017)
- Black Rainbow (2014)
- Blaze (2021)
- Bounce (2015)
- Chasing Infinity (2018)
- Dark Matter (2016)
- Dark Matter (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
- Downtown Dash (2009)
- Downtown Dash (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2020)
- Ellipsis (2010)
- Fidget (2015)
- From the Ashes (2017)
- Gate City Snapshot (2012)
- Imagining World (2010)
- Immortal Dream (2006)
- Irish Washerwoman (2006)
- Legend of the Sword (Daughtrey) (2007)
- Limerick Daydreams (2006)
- Mercury Rising (2005)
- Point of Reckoning (as arranger) (2015)
- Power Struggle (2009)
- Sensus Vitae (2013)
- Shine On! (2017)
- Silent Canyons (2014)
- Silver Moon (2007)
- Spiraling Light (2016)
- StarCatchers (2016)
- Such Small Things (2017)
- Such Small Things (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Through the Horizon (2007)
- True Things (2017)
- Twitch (2016)
- Water Spirits (2019)
- Ye Merry Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Resources
- Daughtrey, N. (2005). Mercury Rising: Percussion Ensemble [score]. C. Alan Productions: Greensboro, N.C.
- Nathan Daughtrey website Accessed 21 December 2019