Steel Heart-SAMPLE

MIKE NEVIN STEEL HEART for

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TSPCE25-031

PROGRAM NOTES

When I was an undergrad percussion student at Montana State University, my percussion professor Dan Moore brought Matt Britain in as a clinician. Matt is a fantastic steelpan player and all-around percussionist. His visit inspired me to get a pan and start learning how to play. I ordered a single lead tenor from Matt’s pan maker Ellie Mannette and finally got it two years later when I was the percussion graduate teaching assistant at the University of Northern Colorado. I dove in headfirst to learn the instrument and began playing pan professionally about a year later.

Steel Heart was the first piece I composed for pan. It was originally a solo, but I felt it would also make a great percussion ensemble arrangement, which is what you now have in front of you.

— Mike Nevin

PERFORMANCE NOTES

This arrangement may be performed with or without a steelpan player, and the percussion 2 and 3 parts are optional, as well. If there is no steel drum player, Vibraphone 1 can play the solo at letter E. A solo is written out, but the soloist may improvise using the provided chord changes.

The acoustic sound effects indicated at the beginning and at mm. 43–46 may include brief nonmetered swells on effect instruments like mark tree, other types of wind chimes, shakers, woodblocks, and sleigh bells.