Silent Canyons
Silent Canyons was inspired of by the story of the Ancestral Pueblo Peoples or Anasazi (a Navajo word meaning “ancient ones” or “ancient enemies”) and their disappearance from the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States in the 13th century. It seeks to follow this evolution of a civilization being built in these previously uninhabited caves, the conflicts that arose with other peoples, the disappearance of the people, and returning to the emptiness of the canyons.
Medium: Percussion Quintet
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Composed: 2014
Duration: 6:50
Difficulty: Grade 4.5
Commission: Fort Lewis College Percussion Ensemble, Jonathan Latta
Instrumentation
Percussion 1 (bells, 2 woodblocks, 2 congas, bongos, rainstick)
Percussion 2 (2-oct crotales, 4 log drum pitches, 4 concert toms)
Percussion 3 (vibraphone, temple blocks, sizzle cymbal, China cymbal)
Percussion 4 (4.3-octave marimba, djembe)
Percussion 5 (concert bass drum, large tam-tam)
