Snallygaster! Concert Band - Sheet Music

Concert band Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bassoon, Bb Euphonium, Bells, Clarinet in Bb 1, Clarinet in Bb 2, Crash Cymbals, Euphonium, Flexatone, Flute, Gong, Horn, Mallets, Oboe, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Percussion 3, Ratchet, Snare Drum, Suspended Cymbal and more. (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb 1, Clarinet in Bb 2, Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Trumpet in Bb 1, Trumpet in Bb 2, Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Bassoon, Bb Euphonium, Tuba, Mallets, Bells, Timpani, Percussion 1, Snare Dru) - Grade 2

SKU: CF.YPS300

Composed by Anthony Susi. This edition: folio. Folio. Score and parts. Composed 2025. 142 pages. Duration 0:02:05. Carl Fischer Music #YPS300. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.YPS300).

ISBN 9781491168950. UPC: 798408101510. 9x12 inches. Key: G minor.

The Snallygaster folklore creature comes alive in this spooky programmatic work for young band. The first accounts began in the eighteenth century from Frederick County, Maryland of a terrifying monster called a Schneller Geist (German for "quick ghost") with a twenty-foot tail, two huge wings, a metallic sharp beak and claws like steel hooks, snatching children and livestock. Allegedly, seven-pointed stars kept the Snallygaster away and can still be seen painted on local barns. It has been reported that the legend was resurrected in the nineteenth-century to frighten freed slaves.It remained a folktale for many years until 1909 when a Maryland paper, the Middletown Valley Register, began printing accounts of Snallygaster sightings in an effort to increase their sales. The publicity led to rumors that the Smithsonian Institution was offering a reward for its capture and that President Theodore Roosevelt considered postponing an African safari to hunt the creature. There were no more sightings of the mysterious beast until twenty-three years later, when it once again appeared in Frederick County as the offspring from 1909, according to the Middletown Valley Register hoax. More recently, the Snallygaster has appeared in a video game and books. Most notedly, author J. K. Rowling referenced the Snallygaster in her 2017 Fantastic Beasts from her Harry Potter world.PERFORMANCE NOTES:This tongue-in-cheek musical portrayal presents the Snallygaster in an eerie minor mode theme with a variety of metallic percussion, symbolic of its metal beak and claws. The slurred eighth notes in mm. 36-39 represent its flapping wings. Close attention to the dynamics, staccato, and accented notes will help magnify the beast. The screams and cows mooing are designed to create a sense of the creature’s looming terror, intended to get a rise from your audience.