| 57821 | Along Mill Creek |
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| Woodruff, Bud |  Score
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| Category: String Orchestra |
| Grade: Medium Difficult |
| Duration: 4:00 |
| Instrumentation: str=8.8.5.5.5,(hp) |
| Description: Mill Creek is a happy, perky, little Ozark Mountain creek fed by many springs. Water from the springs is collected into rivulets and then a creek. But after it crosses State Highway 7, a National Scenic Highway, it flows into a beautiful lake which supplies the power for the old grist mill from which Mill Creek gets its name. After emerging from the mill's dam, it plunges over the gorgeous Marble Falls, where marble used in the Washington Monument was quarried. It then flows unobstructed through woods and campgrounds, being joined by more spring-fed creeks until it eventually empties into the Buffalo River, which is our Country's first National River. The Buffalo eventually feeds the Mississippi, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico, and from there is no limit to where those drops from the springs can go. This piece attempts to depict all those changes in the creek's travels. |