Alias Press Perseus Returns - Buehler - Concert Band - Gr. 3

Author/Composer:

BUEHLER, BLAKE

Instrumentation:

CONCERT BAND

Genre:

FANFARE

Grade/Level:

3.0

Model #:

495-00144

Composer: Blake Buehler
Format: Score and Parts
Instrumentation: Concert Band
Level: 3

Join the Greek hero Perseus as he completes his impossible quest to behead a monstress and save his mother in this march for grade 3 concert band.

Perseus, the son of Zeus and Danae, was raised as a hero to protect his mother from King Polydectes. To be rid of Perseus, Polydectes sent him on an impossible quest to bring back the head of Medusa, the mortal Gorgon who could turn people to stone with her gaze. Taking pity on him, the gods gifted Perseus winged sandals to fly, a helmet of invisibility, and a bronze shield. He found Medusa in her cave and, using the shield as a mirror to avoid her deadly gaze, cut off her head. Perseus then escaped Medusa's vengeful sisters, donning the helmet of invisibility and winged sandals.

As Perseus flew home, drops of Medusa's blood fell to the earth creating the coral in the red sea and the many-coloured snakes in Libya. When Perseus returned, he used Medusa's head to turn Polydectes to stone and free his mother from her imprisonment. He then presented the head to his divine protector Athena, who placed it in the centre of her shield.
Duration: 3:26