The Ballad of Tad Sims by David R. Peoples Sheet Music for Percussion Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title The Ballad of Tad Sims

Artist David R. Peoples

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer David R. Peoples

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 10

Arrangement Percussion Solo

Publisher Bluesilhouettes Music

Level 5

Product ID 1613321

Genre Contemporary 21st Century

Instruments Snare Drum

Product Description

The Ballad of Tad Sims is a programmatic multi-movement work. During the American Civil War, the drummer was a vital part of the military. They kept everyone in line and communicated orders from military leadership. Most were very young and many accounts speak to their shortness as an assett on the battle field (bullets fired tended to go higher). This piece is also part of a longer collection of works connection the final year of Abraham Lincolns life (and a call to one of his children by using the name Tad - not that Tad was a drummer during the war).

Movement 1, Campfire Tales with the Men, sets up an imiganary tale of the drummer entertaining soldiers hanging around a campfire. Movement 2, They Shot the Fife Player (RIP Fancy Billy), reflects on the realities of war and losing friends. Movement 3, 3. Betallion Joy with Salty Sixteenths (the Almost Crazy Army), imagines the interplay between a drummer with the tree line on an open battlefield - with tons of echoes and having the drums interactive with those delayed performances.

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