Slate
Subtitle: For Chamber Brass and Percussion
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: KPMusic
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $65.00 | Score Only (digital) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion I-II, including:
- Kick Drum
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Encyclopedia Britannica defines slate as a fine-grained, clayey metamorphic rock that cleaves, or splits, readily into thin slabs having great tensile strength and durability. The direction of cleavage depends upon the direction of the stresses applied during metamorphism.
- Program Note by composer
Media
- Audio: Reference recording.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Carson Newman University (Jefferson City, Tenn.) Wind Ensemble (Jayme Taylor, conductor) - 7 April 2020 (Premiere performance schedule, but concert canceled)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Above the Clouds (2014)
- By the Hands That Reach Us (2019)
- Embers in the Black (2018)
- Fanfare for a New Day (2018)
- Fanfare for Brass and Percussion (2015)
- Light Descending (2023)
- Meaning in the Echoes (2023)
- Refractions (2024)
- Slate (2019)
- To Sacred Summits (2023)
- Wind in the Aspens (2022)
Resources
- Kevin Poelking, personal correspondence, June 2020
- Kevin Poelking website Accessed 1 June 2020
- Perusal score