Slate

Chamber Brass and Percussion

10 players: 2 Tpt, 2 Hn, 2 Tbn, Eup, Tba, 2 Perc

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Slate
/slāt/

A fine-grained, clayey metamorphic rock that cleaves, or splits, readily into thin slabs having great tensile strength and durability. The direction of cleavage depends upon the direction of the stresses applied during metamorphism.

-from the Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Chamber Brass and Percussion

10 players: 2 Tpt, 2 Hn, 2 Tbn, Eup, Tba, 2 Perc

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