Blaze (Daughtrey)
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 5:15
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts – Available spring 2022
Instrumentation
Full Score
Percussion I-VII, including:
- Bells
- Bongos
- China Cymbals
- Concert Toms (4)
- Hi-Hat
- Kick Bass
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Temple Blocks
- Timpani
- Tom-tom (medium)
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Blaze is a balanced percussion septet pitting the keyboards versus the battery instruments. It draws inspiration from the following Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, as in “trail-blaze” or a blaze on a trail: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
The piece was commissioned by the departing Sydney Grammar School (Australia) 2021 Percussion Ensemble students Remy Alonso, Lars Hofflin, Luke Levison, Edward Meade, Daniel Sirmai, and Elliot Soh, on behalf of, and dedicated to, their conductor and teacher, Mr. Iain Scotland.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Krimmel Intermediate (Spring, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Stetson Begin, conductor) - 21 December 2022 (2022 Midwest Clinic)
- Washington University of Saint Louis Wind Ensemble (Chris Becker, conductor) - 18 November 2021
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 an Open Door (as arranger) (1893/2023)
- Through the Horizon (2007)
- True Things (2017)
- Twitch (2016)
- Water Spirits (2019)
- Where Dreams Dance (2023)
- Ye Merry Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Resources
- Nathan Daughtrey websiteAccessed 27 November 2021