Power Struggle
General Info
Year: 2009
Duration: c. 4:45
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $36.00; (digital) - $36.00 | Score Only (digital) - $12.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Timpani
Percussion I-VII, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- China Cymbal
- Hi-hat
- Marimba
- Shakers
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-tam
- Tom-tom (concert)
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Dedicated to the Lincoln-Way Central High School Percussion Ensemble (Eric Wellman, director), Power Struggle features a balanced ensemble of four keyboard percussion and four battery percussion. The struggle is apparent from the opening bars of the piece, with the two halves of the ensemble competing for attention in an exhilarating and bombastic fashion. The struggle subsides briefly as the keyboards present a new melody and the battery provides a quietly grooving backdrop. The two opposing sections of the ensemble continue this struggle, inwardly and outwardly, until the end of the piece.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
- Texas: Percussion Ensemble Class I
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Henry (Tx.) Middle School Band (Robert Herrings, conductor) – 16 February 2018 (2018 TMEA Conference, San Antonio)
- Robinson (Texas) High School Symphonic Band (Krystal Michal, conductor) – 13 February 2015 (2015 TMEA Conference, San Antonio)
- Aledo (Tx.) Middle School Honor Winds (Tanner Trigg, conductor) – 20 December 2013 (2013 Midwest Clinic)
- North Gwinnett High School Percussion Ensemble (Hunter McRae, conductor) - 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
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- 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
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- 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
- Daughtrey, N. (2009). Power Struggle: Percussion Ensemble [score]. C. Alan Publications: Greensboro, N.C.
- Perusal score