Colorado Peaks
Grade 3
© 2012, GIA Publications, Inc.
Item #: B-B07306 Status: Available
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Description:
This bundle includes:
1. A digital PDF of the Teacher Resource Guide from the Teaching Music textbook
2. An mp3 recording of the work
Written for large concert band, the piece has recurring thematic material throughout but does not adhere to a set formal structure, just as the peaks of the Rocky Mountains are bound by no set pattern.
The work, filled with gentle syncopation, simple chromaticism, and timbral variety, is essentially based on two ideas: a crisp quarter-note pulse representative of hiking and the broad reach of the distant mountains first presented in the horns.
There is also a tranquil section intended to be introspective, indicative of all such hiking journeys as metaphors for, and ultimately about, inward growth.
The piece is approximately five minutes and thirty seconds in duration.
Format: ZIP