Ruinations
General Info
Year: 2016
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Stephen Ryan Jackson
Cost: Score and Parts - Contact composer
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II-III-IV
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
B-flat Bass Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
Piano (w/metal screw driver)
Timpani (with timbale sticks)
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drums (2)
- Brake Drums (3)
- China Cymbal or Small Gong
- Marimba
- Suspended Cymbal (with bass bow)
- Tam-Tam
- Timpano (with timbale sticks)
- Tubular Bells (with timbale sticks)
- Vibraphone (with bass bow)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ruinations is a portrait of the horrific realities we as a human race have created through the pollution, mechanization and destruction of our natural world.
This piece was written for Dr. Wayne Dorothy and the Hardin-Simmons University Concert Band.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Hardin-Simmons University (Abilene, TX.) Concert Band (Wayne Dorothy, conductor) – 22 April 2016 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- asphyxiating sky (2020)
- Herald to the Metropolis (2014)
- Ruinations (2016)
- slow dissolve (2017)
- Sonorities (2015)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Stephen Ryan Jackson, personal correspondence, August 2018
- Stephen Ryan Jackson website Accessed 7 August 2018