Slawson-Winterland (SP)-B/V/C/M/3T/P

Winterland, Brian Slawson’s ensemble piece for beginning percussionists, is a cheerful and festive musical offering that will get any listener into the holiday spirit. In addition to standard instruments like glockenspiel, chimes, marimba, and timpani, the piece features a myriad of fun, toy-like instruments that all players are required to switch to midway through the piece. Fun instruments like slapstick, bell tree, castanets, a train whistle, and sleigh bells not only engage the players but help capture the spirit of the season.

Winterland comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.

• Number of players: 8
• Difficulty: Elementary
• Instrumentation:
• Player 1: Glockenspiel, slapstick
• Player 2: Chimes, bell tree
• Player 3: Vibraphone, castanets
• Player 4: Marimba 1 (4.3-octave, shared w/Player 5), train whistle
• Player 5: Marimba 2 (4.3-octave, shared w/Player 4), 2 temple blocks
• Player 6: 3 timpani, tambourine
• Player 7: sleigh bells, bongos
• Player 8: Drumset (crash cymbal, hi-hat, high tom, snare drum, low tom, kick drum)