Banshee of the Badlands
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 4:05
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Tyler S. Grant Music Works
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bell Tree
- Bongos
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Badlands National Park is home to a sweeping formation of eroding sandstone buttes, pinnacles, and spires. At first sight, the Badlands may even look a little imposing, haunted even. Upon closer inspection, a visitor to the Badlands may find out that these lonely, desolate rock formations ARE haunted!
The Badlands Banshee is a ghost of a woman who is said to haunt the Badlands, with many visitors to the park reporting hearing her shrieking cry, especially around Watch Dog Butte. As the legend goes, the Badlands Banshee is the ghost of a woman who died there before her time. Some say her lover also died there, which is why she screams. Others say she was pushed off the top of one of the buttes, where she fell to her death. No matter the origin of the story, her scream continues to chill the souls of visitors to the Badlands to this day.
- Program Note from Anderson Design Group
Commissioned by the South Dakota Music Educators Association. Premiere by the 2019 Middle School All-State Band.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Findlay (Ohio) Wind Ensemble (Wes King, conductor) - 20 April 2023
- South Dakota Music Educators Association Middle School All-State Band – 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Downtown Strut (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Epic Venture (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2020)
All Wind Works
- Along the Beaches of Normandy (2009)
- Anthem of an Era (2013)
- Ash & Stone (2019)
- ...at Twilight (2014)
- Banner of the Sky (2018)
- Banshee of the Badlands (2019)
- The Best of Rooms (as arranger) (1963/2017)
- Breakthrough (2022)
- Castle Gate, 1924 (2012)
- Chant and Fire Ritual (2011)
- Downtown Strut (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Epic Venture (2015)
- Epic Venture (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2020)
- Ergo (2022)
- Fanfare for 'Our Time' (2020)
- Fanfare for Athena (2020)
- Fanfare for the Gold (2023)
- From the Concord Chronicles (2016)
- Ghosts of the Lost Ship (2014)
- Hope Rising (2022)
- Housetop Holiday Jam! (as arranger) (2011)
- Illustrations (2013)
- Miles in the Sky (2015)
- Mission: Apollo (2015)
- Now & Forever March (2023)
- Paceline (2018)
- Pacific Grooves (2022)
- Panoramic Fanfare (2014)
- Panoramic Landscapes (2015)
- Prevailing Fire
- Resplendent Light (2016)
- River Poem (2019)
- The Sacred Spheres (2021)
- Shimmering Joy (2018)
- Solace in the Equinox (2017)
- Sweet Dreams (2022)
- Tale of the Sword
- Terminal Velocity (2014)
- Winds of Celebration (2012)
Resources
- Johnson, Aaron and Joel Anderson. "Legends Of The National Parks: Badland's Banshee." Anderson Design Group, 2022. Web. Accessed 1 May 2023
- Perusal score
- Tyler Grant website Accessed 1 May 2023