Palo Duro Sunrise

Jack Wilds

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

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

Alabama: Class D

Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Across the Serengeti (2016)
And Sail Away (2017)
Bold
Bravado Tango (2015)
Cassini's Dive (2021)
Christus Factus Est (as transcriber) (1884/2018)
Circle of Wagons (2013)
Come Down Rain (2018)
Crowns of Glory (2020)
Dance Slav (2018)
Everybody Sang (2019)
Foiled Again! (2014)
Laniakea (2016)
Legacy Fanfare (2016)
Moon Over Half Dome (2019/2021)
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)
Symphony No.1 (2022)
¡Viva! (2017)
Wellspring (2020)
Whirling Novas (2015)

Resources

Jack Wilds Music Accessed 2 August 2021
"New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 71/8 (March, 2017), p. 30.
Perusal score