Ember Skies (flex)
Kevin Day (arr. Josh Trentadue)
Subtitle: For 5-Part Adaptable Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2020 / 2022
Duration: c. 2:30
Difficulty: I (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- Violin I
Part 2
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- Alto Saxophone
- Trumpet
- Violin II
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- Alto Saxophone
- Trumpet
- Horn in F
- Viola
Part 4
- Bassoon
- Tenor Saxophone
- Horn in F
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Violoncello
Part 5
- Bassoon
- Bass Clarinet
- Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Bass Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Double Bass
- Piano (optional)
- Timpani (optional)
Percussion (optional), including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Suspended Cymbal
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ember Skies is a Grade 1 composition originally for young band depicting a red-orange colored sky that awakens from the darkness of night, bringing forth the first light and signaling the start of a new day.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Westside Christian High School (Tigard, Ore.) Concert Band (Will Fox, conductor) - 10 May 2023
- Muskingum University (Ohio) Wind Ensemble (David Turrill, conductor) - 4 November 2022
- Muskingum University (Ohio) Wind Ensemble (David Turrill, conductor) - 16 September 2022 *Premiere Performance
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)
- Aurora (arr. Trentadue) (2021/2023)
- 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)
- The Essence of Being (arr. Trentadue) (2021/2022)
- Fantasia for Alto Sax and Marimba (2016)
- Fireworks (2015)
- Flash Fury (2023)
- 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)
- Metallic Figures
- More than Words... (2020)
- MOTO. See: Symphony Basquiat
- 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)
- Sangre Royal (2023)
- Shimmering Sunshine (2019). See also: Of Day and Night
- Solace in the Wind (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2023)
- A Song for Tomorrow (2019)
- Summit (2020)
- Symphony Basquiat (2023)
- Tango Oscuro (arr. Trentadue) (2020/2022)
- Unquiet Waters (2020/2023)
- Variation V (arr. Collins) (2020/2022)
- Windborne (2022)
Resources
- Kevin Day website Accessed 16 December 2020
- Perusal score