Daughtrey-Be That of the Wind (SP)-B/V/3M/P/FL/OB/CL/HN/BN

Be That of the Wind by Nathan Daughtrey is a piece for woodwind quintet and 8 percussionists that draws inspiration from the four tenets outlines in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your gentleness that of the forest. In raiding and plundering be like fire, be immovable like a mountain. As such, the 6-minute work divides into four interconnected vignettes - as swift as the wind, as fierce as fire, as gentle as the forest, and as immovable as the mountain, with a quick final nod to the wind. The thematic and harmonic material was generated by transforming the name Natalie - a young flute player from the band program whose life ended way too soon in the fall of 2023 - into chromatic pitches.

Additional Information:

• Number of players: 8+5
• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Instrumentation:
• Flute
• Oboe
• B-flat Clarinet
• F Horn
• Bassoon
• Percussion 1: Bells, 2 woodblocks
• Percussion 2: Vibraphone, temple blocks (5 pitches)
• Percussion 3: Marimba 1 (4 octave), small suspended cymbal, medium tom
• Percussion 4: Marimba 2 (4.3 octave), medium suspended cymbal, medium low tom
• Percussion 5: Marimba 3 (4.3 octave), large suspended cymbal, low tom
• Percussion 6: Bongos, 4 concert toms, China cymbal, log drum (4 pitches)
• Percussion 7: Concert bass drum, multi-bass drum, suspended cymbal, crotales (2 octaves)
• Percussion 8: Tam-tam, rainstick, claves, ribbon crasher, splash cymbal, sizzle cymbal