Legends of the Yucatan
General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 5:40
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $72.00; (digital) - $72.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bells
- Cabasa
- Claves
- Conga
- Flexatone
- Gong
- Marimba
- Mark Tree
- Rainstick
- Shakers
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Mayan mythology is vividly portrayed through musical representations of deities worshipped by this ancient culture. Feathered Serpent, God of Rain and Thunder, Lord of the Woods and Lady Rainbow each have a musical section descriptive of their distinct powers. Inspired by a recent trip to the Mayan village of Chichén Itzá, expanded percussion and exotic rhythms and harmonies are used to bring to bring to life this amazing part of the world.
- Program Note from publisher
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Forbes Middle School Honor Band (Jackie Fullerton, conductor) - 2009
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Harmonie Mathieu Martin - 2016
- Forbes Middle School (Georgetown, Tx.) Honors Band (Jackie Fullerton, conductor) – 18 December 2009 (2009 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Where Stand the Dauntless (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- After Images (2019)
- Amplitude (2015)
- Avinu Malkeinu (as arranger) (2013)
- Bang Zoom! (2014)
- Big Raven (2009)
- Brain Dance (2019)
- Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (as arranger) (2015)
- A Cambridge Carol (as arranger) (2007)
- A Canadian Christmas (2012)
- Canadian Folk Trilogy (as arranger) (2009)
- Cape Breton Lullaby (as arranger) (2011)
- Chariton Chronicles (2019/2020)
- Chase the Shouting Wind (2014)
- A Chesapeake Bay Adventure (2008)
- Chimera (2011)
- A Christmas Canticle (as arranger) (2014)
- Climb the Mountains Tall (2012)
- Code of Honor (2010)
- Covenant (2021)
- Crusade (2006)
- Djembe Laya (2016)
- Engage (2018)
- Event Horizon (2018)
- Flight of The Intrepid (2007)
- G Force (2015)
- Genesis (2010)
- The Holly and the Ivy (2012)
- I Saw Three Ships (as arranger) (2012)
- Impulse Power! (2018)
- Invocation and Psalm (2011)
- Journey to Aldebaran (2008)
- Kaboom! (2017)
- Land of the Midnight Sun (2008)
- Land of the Silver Birch (as arranger) (2011)
- Legends of the Yucatan (2009)
- The Moon of Winter (as arranger) (2010)
- Mysterion (2013)
- O Canada (as arranger) (2009)
- O Christmas Three (as arranger) (2019)
- Oak Island Odyssey (2013)
- Oracle (2020)
- Phenom (2010)
- Retrograde (2021)
- Rise of the Avatar (2017)
- Rite of Ascension (2009)
- Rock Paper Scissors (2013)
- Rouge Valley Celebration (2011)
- Sails (2014)
- Ships With Sails Unfurled (2007)
- Stay Cool (2010)
- The Temple of Guan Yu (2015)
- To Cross the Sleeping Green (2019)
- Tsunami (2005/2006)
- Variations on an English Folk Song (as arranger) (2010)
- Vectors (2015)
- Vision Quest (2012)
- The Water is Wide (as arranger) (2014)
- We Stand on Guard (2015)
- Where Stand the Dauntless (2020)
- Where Stand the Dauntless (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Wings (2012)
- Wings of Apollo (2016)
- Zero to Ninety! (2019)
Resources
- Gassi, V. (2009). Legends of the Yucatan [score]. Alfred Music Publishing: [Van Nuys, Calif.].
- Perusal score
- Vince Gassi website Accessed 7 July 2021