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2026 Frontier by Carol Brittin Chambers Key: Eb; Instrumentation: Clarinet & Trumpet have 1st/2nd parts. Everyone else unison MORE INFO I found it deceptively trickier than some years. Lots of scattered movement. Balance on black notes and white notes is not the typical low brass with white notes until the end of the phrase where low brass has either ascending or descending quarter notes. The movement jumps around between the parts constantly. Also Lows have a figure where they are the only quarter on the page, but it’s a repeated note. Make sure they bring out that note more or it’ll get lost. Lots of melody around the concert Aflats so really nail that danger note. Difference in dynamics is HUGE. It’s forte at the beginning and then you have to exaggerate that first drop to mf at the next box or it’ll be too loud and out of balance. Last 4 measures is all accents. Tempo is moderato. Lows have a lot of dotted quarter 8th rhythms. Some pick up entrances after rests. Make sure accompaniment doesn’t overpower LB line about halfway through. A lot of music in this one. Railroad tracks like in measure 9(ish) after a rit. No tempo change after, Style is marked accordingly, accents/not accents is what they'll need to be able to show Low brass has the melody at one point, then passes it back to trumpets, that's a tricky moment because the melody range is low and the low brass is still high Basically, practice during the difference between accents, and not accents Percussion: Snare, Bass, Crash Cym, Sus Cymb, Bells, Timpani
2025 Silk Road Journey by Victor Flowers Key - Eb; Time signature - 4/4; Tempo - Moderato Around Measure 15 have WW for 2 counts, Brass for 2 counts. Around Measure 23 articulation is long-short, long-short (these may be slurs). Snare is on rim here LOTS OF DOTTED QUARTER - 8TH NOTES 40-50 measures 2nd clarinet / 2nd trumpet are closer to the alto/Horn parts. The melody is only in flute, 1st clarinet, 1st trumpet in tutti moments, so maybe stack more 1st part kids. Flutes have melody alone near the end in a woodwind moment 2 measures with staccato eighth notes surrounded by 2 tenuto quarter notes (loooong short short loooong) in high brass, otherwise style is mostly legato NEW: softest dynamic is mp, loudest is forte. There is a bad page turn in the conductor's score where you may not cue the trumpets. Towards the end of the piece there is a section where the entire band is at mp while the trombones and baritones are at mf. There is no contra-alto clarinet part for the piece. Last 4 measures will be a concert Eb chord. 3 measures of dotted half and quarter rest. Last measure will be 3 accented quarter notes followed by a quarter rest. Percussion has 2 measures by themselves. Lots of 16ths in snare. 9 stroke rolls Percussion: Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Crash Cymbals, Triangle, Suspended Cymbal, Timpani, Bells
2024 Bozeman Trails by LeAndre Benton Key - Eb; Time - 4/4; Concert Eb Fermata, grand pause and tempo change The level 3 in the bassoon part is out of range. The lowest pitch in the criteria is first line G and the lowest note is a whole step below that (F). Slightly long for a 7 minute prep but not bad really. Can’t remember a lot of specific rhythms but there were some 8th note 8th rest stuff which isn’t hard but young players sometimes overthink it when it’s essentially to short downbeats. Some 1 measure call and response stuff in 2nd half 2nd half has a spot where low brass take over and every one else accompanies so balance there is important. Also there’s a 4 bar percussion break as well but it’s easy. More information: Trumpets and clarinets start by themselves (half notes). Slow start into, fermata at the end of the into, grand pause then next section. Western theme. The timpani has a little solo. The winds drop out part way through a measure. Other percussion play a measure The consistent rhythm is 1-te, -te 3-4 (over and over). Every section is featured, including percussion. Low brass/low reed must be confident in middle section--they take over with the melody. All in all, not a bad piece, but every section must be confident.
2023 Windrift Manor by Clifton Jones Key - Eb; Time - 4/4; Eb. 4/4. 1--te 3 te 4. Low brass/winds melody for 8 bars. Flute, a sax, horn melody after that. Concert a naturals in 3 measures toward the end. Has quite a few dynamic contrasts with a major crescendo towards the end. There are a few measures with a Half note to a dotted quarter to an eighth note. (One place this happens is at measure 4 and leads to weird transition into the next measure.) At measure 11 low voices have the melody with every one else accompanying. WWs play on 1 and 3 during this section The last six measures are full of accidentals that essentially makes a key change to Concert Bb. In the last measure, there is a rit that leads into a fermata to end the piece. This can be a very confusing place essentially with the accidental that are present. All in all, the sightreading is very playable but is definitely a typical Clifton Jones piece with traps. NOTE: There is NO Eb contra-alto clarinet part that was written. Bands with one coming in from the stage will either have to have them read a bari sax part, transpose from tuba, or just not play at all. Measure 5 is a rehearsal mark but it should really be at measure 3, which the the start of the 4 or 8 bar phrase. DO NOT assign a student to play the triangle part! They don’t play at all in the 4/4 section. Only crash cymbals. Snare, Bass, Crash, Bells, Timpani. ZERO articulations in this piece More info: Allegro Starts tutti, No Articulation markings, seems like a dynamic changes Be sure to make long phrases, balance and blending is important the bands playing the whole time After opening statement trumpets, flute/oboe and clarinet (I think) have melody (contains a dotted quarter 8th on beat 3 ) Low brass and reeds have melody with quarters and half’s Melody with trumpet and WW at the end Last measure ritards and ends with a fermata More info: Yes it is 27 measures but the last four measures almost did me in. The alto melody you already have mention is a melody on low D E and F at the bottom of the treble Clef. My my altos almost cost us the trophy it is written low and soft on Alto. The guy who wrote it was obviously not an alto player. The only rhythm that gave us any issue was half - dotted quarter - 8th - one. Very readable except for that stupid low alto part. Lots of one rest rest four one in the low brass. Percussion: Timpani, Bells, Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Crash Cymbals, Triangle NOTE FROM UIL Regarding yesterday’s email: The Level 3 Band SR work, Windrift Manor, will conclude on the fermata in measure 27 thereby eliminating the 3/4 section. There is no option available to read the whole piece. Share this with contest directors, hosts and judges. Thanks! Gabe Musella, ASCAP Assistant Music Director University Interscholastic League
2022 A Classical Caper by Barbara Lambrecht Key - Bb changes to Eb at Meas 22; Time - 4/4 time throughout.; Allegro Moderato throughout Plenty of 1 &__&3 4 and plenty of 1 2&3 4. Many places where the 8ths are slurred in the 1 2&34 rhythms. Lots of accidentals in 2nd trumpet and saxophones. LOTS of Concert A naturals in 1st part and Concert Ab in 2nd. Opening several of low brass have 3 whole notes tied together. Baritone and Trombone part is often different than each other. Fermata with GP at the end of Meas 4 There is a place where most of band releases a note on beat 3 and most of low brass releases on beat 1, 2 beats after the rest of the band. There are some G# that the trumpets have and a tricky beat 2 entrance toward the middle that the trumpets also have. Make sure your horns can enter on a d first space below the staff. One tricky syncopated rhythm that everybody has in unison around measure 18. The biggest trap is this: the main melody throughout this piece is a quarter note, rest, quarter note, rest rhythm, but at the end, it is just one quarter not per measure. This one is filled with traps and if we were not doing the sightreading pilot this year, we would have fell into the traps. It looks easy but it can cause havoc. Don't dwell too much on the beginning. Make sure that you get to the end, maybe even first thing. Flutes have a slurred melody during Eb section and must play up to high F. Lows really need to count. Tubas, bass clarinet, timpani, euphonium have an entrance after about 10 measures of rest. Two places where all band has staccato 8th notes with varying rhythms. Rest of piece is not staccato. There is a mistake online with percussion instrumentation. It lists 6 instruments. But there are 7 percussion instruments. Triangle can play tambourine, but could be split between students Percussion parts are all independent of each other. Be sure your percussionists are not relying on each other. Lots of random entrances they must count for! Very well written and appropriate piece for level 3 this year.
2021 Tango de Pueblo Pequeno by Dena Drumm Key - Bb throughout; Time - 4/4 throughout No accidentals. Altos, French horn and trombones start with syncopation 1+, + 3, 4. Flutes, clarinets trumpets start with Melody. Starts song with it saying "Detached" and has a Spanish feel. Altos and French horn take over melody in the middle section. Middle section: style changes to "Legato" and dotted quarter 8th notes in melody. Last section repeats beginning, in an A B A form. Percussion (snare) have a tricky rhythm: dotted quarter note, +a, 3+, 4. Several crescendos and decrescendos. All in all it's not too bad. More notes: goes between detached and legato styles. Trombone part is different than trombone. At square 25, trumpet has melody with only low brass support. Horn/alto sax/trombone have the following rhythm many times 1& &3 4. Tricky snare part part 1& &a 3 4. Meas 33 and 34 is percussion feature. There are several times that percussion play by themselves on beat 4: snare alone in Meas 24, BD in several measures, big crash cymble on beat 4 in Meas 34.
2020 Intrada by Jack Wilds Key - Eb throughout; Time - 4/4 throughout All phrases are 8 measure phrases. Be careful to count trumpet entrances in meas 5. Mostly grouped with ww ens/ tpt & horn/low brass and low reeds. One instance where the horns are playing along with reeds without brass. Multiple phrases that are 4& 1&2 3&4 1-(2)&3 4&. Snares are off. Some odd entrances where rest on count 4, off for 2 meas then re-enter midway through phrase. Not difficult. 2 tympani More info: Melody does not start on tonic, starts on the 3rd. Main melody rhythm is played ALOT. 1&2,3&4 1-&3,4& 1 (then there’s 2 different rhythms followed) One spot where only trumpets have melody but there’s low brass accomp. A few percussion features bit timpani does not play during. Crash snare and bass only. 1 measure call and response from highs and lows near the end. Seems very short, around 50 ish measures
2019 Intrepid by Jack Wilds Key - Bb throughout; Time - 4/4 throughout; Tempo: Moderate. It has lots of dotted quarter eighth note rhythms. There are a couple of places that the scoring is thin, but nothing too unusual or tricky. There are two places where half the band ends a phrase on beat one with a quarter note followed by rests while the other half begins a phrase on the same beat one. NO ACCIDENTALS. All in all VERY playable piece as long as students count and play basic rhythms. -More info: The trick with this one is staggered entrances throughout the whole piece, such as by trumpets, then flutes, then horns, then altos, etc. Percussion has staggered entrances, too. Clarinet crosses the break a few times. Some random big leaps in alto range. -Update 3/9 - Alto sax and clarinet have the following rhythm in the the middle of the piece: 1 2 3 &..., 1... & 3 & 4.
2018 Ascension by Mark Lortz Key: Bb throughout; Time Signature: 4/4 throughout Notes from a director: I don’t remember seeing any accidentals. 1st 4 measures are slow and pretty, the rest of the piece is faster. Be careful not to go too fast. Here are some of the tricks! The 1st trumpet has a D while 2nd trumpet plays a B natural in a moving melody. 1st trumpet must get high enough. They also have a pretty big skip to get there, something like F (bottom of staff), C (in the staff), D (in the staff). Flutes and Clarinets are required to come in on an upbeat 8th note after an 8th rest several times. Their rhythm is something like - rest and 2 and 3 and 4. The part has moving notes. Toward the beginning, Low brass has a repeated rhythm that goes something like - 1 and, and, and 4 and. Toward the end, there is a 2 part canon between the upper voices and the lower voices. Trombones and Baritones will have to play the same melody that the upper winds are playing 2 beats apart from the upper winds. This will make them think they are wrong if they are not careful. Very difficult to get all of the tricks in this piece explained in 7 minutes. More Level 3 info: Slow 4 measure intro. Fermata. Grand pause. Then Allegro with half the band entering on 1 then others on the and of one Other than the syncopation issues, practice with everyone on counting long multi-measure rests and coming in on beats 2, 3, or 4. There’s even some back to back multi-measure rests (two rehearsal numbers ). There is a wicked page turn for the Director. Trumpets, of course, are resting forever as woodwinds play. Then they have an entrance on beat 4 on the far right of the page. You must cue them or you're toast. Page turn, and Boom, they have melody. I asked to see a trumpet part as I was writing my sheet to confirm the multi-measure rests and odd entrances.
2017 Silverado by Jack Wilds Key: Eb/Bb/Eb; Time Signature: 4/4 throughout; Tempo: Moderate /Andante/Moderato Notes: Piece is in ABA format. -Whole band has 1st theme together -No accidentals -Lots of 8th Quarter 8th Quarter Quarter (syncopation). Some Dotted quarter eighth rhythms -Lots of unison -End of 1st section ends with fermata caesura -2nd section is Bb, Andante - Flute and sax melody, then low brass melody then they switch back and forth -2nd section ends on fermata caesura -3rd section has a trick: Bands plays 3 4 1, then flutes enter on 2&3&4&1. This repeats many times -In general not much dynamic range, although ending is fortissimo -measures ARE numbered (I think this is requirement) -less than 80 measures long -2 trumpets, 2 clarinets, low brass is mostly unison
2016 Variations on a Theme by Schubert by Michael Worthington NO INFORMATION AVAILABLE
2015 In Shining Armor by Jack Wilds Key - two key changes. Eb, Bb, back to Eb; Tempo – Allegro/andante/allegro; Time signature – 4/4 Notes: Not many accidentals. Clarinet and trumpet have a lot of melody. ABA format. Ritardando and cesura at end of first A section and end of B section. Many call and answer sections. 1 2&3 4 rhythm prevalent in ww/tpt melody. Low brass countermelody 3&4. Very playable
2014 Tribute and Celebration by Robert Bruce Key - Eb throughout; Time Signature - 4/4 throughout Andante at the beginning. Fermata at end of measure 4. No ritardando. Fermata 2/3 way in . Allegro afterwards still 4/4. Syncopation is 1 & & 3, 4. Accents on the &. Very playable by level three standards. More info from TYB...First 30 or so measures andante sostenuto. First five measures unison throughout the band. Two fermatas followed by a grand pause. Minor articulations to watch out for. Second half of the song is allegro with repeated syncopation rhythms. Concert Eb throughout. Triangle part mimics bass drum part, although there are times when triangle plays alone-strictly quarter notes/rests. Extremely playable song, even if you don't leave the room whistling the tune.