Your students will enjoy the intensity of this young band composition by the composer of Dragon Slayer. This ominous work written in the key of C minor will engage your entire ensemble as they convey the music’s strong and forceful images. Although written with very limited technical demands, your students are sure to awe audiences as they perform this powerful piece. (1:44)
Temple of Darkness was conceived as a concert piece to be performed within the first year of beginning instruction. Every effort has been made to give young players the experieince of performing a mature-sounding composition with little technical demand. Only the first notes learned in most beginning method books are utilized in this composition. Rhythms are the whole note, half note, quarter note, and eighth note. Percussion plays a vital musical role without placing too many demands on the developing percussionist.