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Rocketship! (flex)
General Info
Year: 2017 / 2020
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part A
Part B
Part C
Part D
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece takes the listener on a journey through space. The rocketship encounters many obstacles and sights along the way evident throughout the changing styles of the music. From flowing galaxies to meteor dodging, this piece is excting.
- Program Note adapt from University of Colorado Boulder Campus Band concert program, 14 April 2021
Commissioned by and dedicated to Paul Rosales, Director of Bands at William James Middle School, and the students of the William James Middle School Band Program, Fort Worth ISD.
- Program Note from score
Media
- Video: Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 25 October 2020 (Virtual)
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Wayne (Neb.) State College Wind Ensemble (David Bennett, conductor) - 20 April 2021
- University of Colorado Boulder Campus Band (Zach Cheever, conductor) - 14 April 2021
- Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minn.) Wind Symphony (Heidi Johanna Miller, conductor) - 6 December 2020
- Truman State University (Kirksville, Mo.) Wind Symphony II (Curran Prendergast, conductor) - 16 November 2020
- Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 25 October 2020 *Premiere Performance (Virtual)*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
- Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- All the Day Long (2017)
- Christmas in Spain (2016)
- Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2021)
- Dancing Fire (2016)
- Dancing Fire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2016/2020)
- Deep Blue (2022)
- Dual Strides (2022)
- Ecstatic Samba (arr. Trentadue) (2017/2022)
- Ember Skies (2021)
- Ember Skies (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- enter data sequence (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- Fantasia for Alto Sax and Marimba (2016)
- Fireworks (2015)
- Galactic Voyage (2018)
- Ignition (2018/2020)
- Havana (2018)
- Havana (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- A Hymn for Peace (2017)
- A Hymn for Peace (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- J.R. (2017)
- Lightning Round (2022)
- Lightning Round (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2022)
- More than Words... (2020)
- Night Sketches I (2016)
- Nitrous (2020)
- On Shores of Endless Sea (2022)
- Pyrotechnics (2019)
- Requiem for the Unarmed (2020/2022)
- River Memoria (2022)
- Rocketship! (2017)
- Rocketship! (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Shimmering Sunshine (2019). See also: Of Day and Night
- A Song for Tomorrow (2019)
- Tango Oscuro (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- Windborne (2022)
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- Kevin Day website Accessed 13 July 2020
- Perusal score