After Impact – Full Score

Description

Laura Estes brings us a dynamic and intense work for the earliest musicians in “After Impact.” This piece, which uses only the first 6 notes learned, is a great introduction to real music at their first concert!

Program Notes

Millions of years ago the prairie landscape of the Badlands was covered by a subtropical shallow sea called the Western Interior Seaway. Toward the end of the Cretaceous period this seaway had partially receded, leaving in its wake temperate forests and rivers in what eventually would become the Badlands of South Dakota. It was the age of dinosaurs.

Three days after the asteroid’s impact, fires are still burning, sunlight is blocked by thick dust and ash in the atmosphere, and the only survivors are mammals and reptiles who were able to hide in caves or burrow into the ground. Fires provide the only light. And now, on this third day, these survivors are beginning to carefully venture from their hiding places in search of food, determined to live.

Utilizing only six notes (D–B) and one tempo change, “After Impact” is a substantial level 0.5 concert work for our youngest string students. And with its use of limited extended rests, students in all Instrument sections will remain engaged and busy during rehearsals. I hope you and your students will enjoy learning “After Impact – Chicxulub Asteroid: Day 3.”