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Rock Solid (flex)
General Info
Year: 2020
Duration: c. 3:55
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- C Instruments TC (High)
- C Instruments TC (Low)
- C Instruments BC
- B-flat Instruments
- E-flat Instruments
Part 2
- C Instruments TC
- C Instruments BC
- B-flat Instruments
- E-flat Instruments
Part 3
- C Instruments TC
- C Instruments BC
- B-flat Instruments
- E-flat Instruments
- F Instruments
Part 4
- C Instruments BC (High)
- C Instruments BC (Low)
- B-flat Instruments
- E-flat Instruments
- F Instruments
Piano (optional)
Timpani
Percussion (7 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells (optional)
- Crash Cymbals
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Scott Watson's original composition features a moderate rock feel and gritty, dissonant harmonies that combine to portray the sound of industry -- work gangs laboring with machinery whirring, clanging, grinding, and banging, along with several vocal shouts from the band and a factory whistle.
- Program Note from score
Rock Solid was commissioned by the Northampton Area Konkrete Kids Education Foundation, Northampton, Pennsylvania, for the Northampton Area Middle School and High School Bands, Connor Barz and James Sansone, director, in tribute to the men and women whose labors in the Northampton cement industry built a town while establishing Northampton, Pennsylvania, as the "cement capital of the world."
- Program Note from score
Performance Notes
With homogeneous instrument use, there will be crossed voices, so be sure that students adjust dynamics so the melody is always heard. In an effort to support completely flexible instrumentation, the following editorial accommodations are included to address potential Challenges.
Where appropriate, some parts may have multiple notes. However, they will not be marked div. When this occurs, assign the most appropriate notes for your students.
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Escape from Thunder Mountain (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Rock Solid (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Aesop's Fables (1999)
- Appalachian Hoedown
- Aquatica (2014)
- At the Feast of Stephen (2009)
- Awake the Iron (2010)
- Balkan Seven (2018)
- Celebratory Fanfare (2017)
- Country Dance
- Concert Piece (Horn and Band)
- Dorian Haiku (2014)
- Dragonship (2018)
- El Cid (2014)
- Escape from Thunder Mountain (2020)
- Extraordinary Machines of Clockwork and Steam (2019)
- Fantasy on an Old English Air
- Figurations
- Freedom Brigade
- Galliard (2019)
- Ghosts in the Graveyard
- Golden Legacy
- Hanukah Is Here
- Joyful Rock
- Lion of Ireland (2011)
- Magic Valley
- Morning Star (2005)
- Night Journey (Watson)
- On Holiday
- Rock Solid (2020)
- Siege of Badon Hill
- Slam Jam! (2004)
- Terracotta Warriors (2017)
- Walkin' Cool
Resources
- "Alfred Music FLEX Offerings." Alfred Music. Web.
- Perusal score
- Scott Watson website Accessed 16 September 2020