My arrangement of Murray Gold's orchestral chaconne "The Shepherd's Boy" during the climactic montage from “Heaven Sent” (Doctor Who, s09e11), for solo piano (advanced ability). But this really is my own too, not just a pure transcription. I added a few special layers in the iterations after the key change. You'll recognize two of them. Spoilers :)
I arranged this from ear in 2016, the soundtrack not being available yet, and dissatisfied with some others’ transcriptions. I published my arrangement in March 2016 at musescore.com/user/8083886/scores/1839371, but only this summer did I get it to some semblance of performance-level.
For those unfamiliar with the story this music goes with: the Doctor, who has been stuck alone for a long time in a prison designed for him, is slowly and painfully breaking through a harder-than-diamond wall, by a repeating cycle, because he is trying to save his dearest friend. So in a sense the music is all about perseverance and friendship/love.
About the name: Some have called this "Breaking the Wall", and some "This Time There's Three of Us" (from "The Day of the Doctor"), which contains a short passage similar to what we hear in this piece. At the time I arranged this, the soundtrack name was not available, so I named it "A Hell of a Bird" because in this montage the Doctor lives out the Grimm tale of the bird chiseling away the diamond mountain; he is the Hell of a Bird. And I still like that name, because he’s not just a shepherd’s boy telling himself to be the Doctor. He’s also the bird actually doing the hard work.
For my transcription for piano duet, you can listen to ua-cam.com/video/HYgV61XKaWk/v-deo.html (performed by SwordWomanRiona), or see musescore.com/user/8083886/scores/1873621.
Edit 11/12/22: I didn't fully realize that Musescore requires a subscription (or free trial) in order to download sheet music. My intent was to make it free; Musescore does not pay me. And actually, if you click "print", it basically produces a pdf that you can either actually print or save or print-as-pdf, so it kind of is available after all. However, MuseScore's layout is weird and runs to a lot of pages. Here is a pdf file with a better layout, only 8 pages, generated from Finale, and with a tiny bit of editing I just did: www.dropbox.com/s/5wp2n14mp6trec4/A%20Hell%20of%20A%20Bird%20Solo%20piano%20version%20played%202021.pdf?dl=0
Thanks to my friend Kristen for recording the video!