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Palo Duro Sunrise
Contents
General Info
Year: 2015
Duration: c. 2:10
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music Company
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $45.00; (digital) - $45.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00
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
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Slapstick
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This programmatic work depicts an idyllic sunrise over Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle, a canyon system revered for its size and multicolored layers of rock. The piece begins with flutes playing a tranquil melody depicting the first glimpse of sunlight. The melody is then passed to the trumpets as the music builds to a faster, rousing main section with galloping rhythms, and bold melodic and harmonic material that easily conveys images of horses and cattle drives as well as the vastness and grandeur of the landscape. The piece then slows to a brief, majestic passage before the driving rhythms return bringing the composition to a dramatic conclusion.
-Program Note from The Instrumentalist
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
Media
State Ratings
- Alabama: Class D
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Across the Serengeti (2016)
- And Sail Away (2017)
- Bravado Tango (2015)
- Christus Factus Est (as transcriber) (1884/2018)
- Circle of Wagons (2013)
- Come Down Rain
- Dance Slav (2018)
- Everybody Sang (2019)
- Foiled Again! (2014)
- Laniakea (2016)
- Legacy Fanfare (2016)
- Moon Over Half Dome (2019)
- On the Kerry Shore (2017)
- On the Wing (2014)
- Palo Duro Sunrise (2015)
- Passage of Arms (2013)
- Queen Anne’s Revenge (2013)
- Ruins of Tulum (2013)
- Scenes from the American West (2018)
- Solstice Dance (2015)
- The Spirit of Cashel (2019)
- Spellbound (2016)
- A Swashbuckling Christmas (2017)
- ¡Viva! (2017)
- Wellspring
- Whirling Novas (2015)
Resources
- Jack Wilds website Accessed 3 September 2019
- "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 71/8 (March, 2017), p. 30.
- Perusal score