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2026 Nettleton by Timothy Rhea Key: Eb/Ab Instrumentation: Clarinet and Trumpet have 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts; Horn and Trombone have 1st/2nd parts. Everyone else unison Melody is "come thou fount of every blessing" with a lot of ornamentation and scalar runs in woodwinds. Very block scored. A few spots with exposed trumpet. Short 2-bar section with very exposed 1st clarinet. Trumpets have an exposed 1 te ta 2 te ta (aka 1 & a 2 &a 3 &a 4&a) etc fanfare that comes back twice, always in the staff. Follow the written dynamics, composer wrote very intentionally to bring out the melody. 4/4 allegro in Eb, "light dance feel." Dynamics written very clearly for each section. Woodwinds loud for 2 bars, soft for 2 bars under low voice melody, repeat. Percussion break is very thinly scored with just snare drum and timpani solo. Make sure your timpanist can read "te 1". Rallentando to 3/4 slow legato in Ab. Watch for written accents in low voices toward the end. 92? measures total. Aside from the percussion break, this is one of the best sight reading pieces I've ever played. Easy to teach, very well scored, no traps, clear writing Percussion: Snare, Bass, Crash Cym, Sus Cym, Wood Block, Chimes, Bells, Timpani
2025 Beautiful Seattle by LeAndre Benton Key - Ab and Eb NEW! - Opening slow section in 3/4, Ab. Usually doubled in multiple sections. Tubas have several 1 - 3 1 - - rhythms with a quarter note pickup to the new chord. Melody reminiscent of Jurassic Park. Caesura. "Spirited" 4/4 section in Eb starts with 1 bar percussion break. Don't let your snare drummer go too fast. One or two exposed trumpet moments but otherwise everything is doubled across sections. Recurring melodic line has 1&2&---- with "& of 2" tied to a half note. Woodwinds have some runs that are all Eb scale. Practice your Scale Pattern 1 from the Foundations book. Very well-written piece, nice melody. Via Post on the yellowboard: Honestly, a very nice work. Not too hard, and not very long. Don’t recall any accidentals (just the key change from Ab to Eb). Beginning is very pretty/lyrical with melody is clarinets and horns. It’s a lyrical section, so slow but not too slow. Then fermata, caesura. Next section is allegro/fanfare with maybe 2-3 runs in upper woodwinds, but then that’s it. I would go at a faster speed for sure in this section, but not too fast! No crazy rhythms at all. A few fp in brass where upper woodwinds “noodle”. Then melody in clarinet, horn, and sax. About 60 measures in total. Percussion: Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Suspended Cymbal, Crash Cymbals, Timpani, Bells
2024 River's Edge by William Owens Key - Eb/Bb/Eb; Time - 4/4; Tempo - Allegro/Andante/Allegro 65 measures total Some accidentals, nothing unusual No technical passages to speak of Any good 6A band will play it just fine. 1 +a 2 + 3 - flute, cl, tpt melody. Low brass/reeds accomp. 1 + + 3 - with accent on and of 1. MORE INFO: 1st section: 4/4 Eb Allegro. Melody in fl/cl/tpt is 1 +a 2+ 3- 4+ w/ the +a2 slurred. Accompaniment has a lot of eighth/quarter/eighth syncopation. At the end of the first section it changes to lyrical, slurred woodwinds playing just quarters and eighths. Then it adds brass back in for the last few bars of the first section. Very few accidentals and none of them are crazy. There’s a poco rit then a fermata with cesura. 2nd section is 4/4 Bb Andante. Nothing technical or tricky, very straight forward. Clarinets and altos carry most of the melody. Another poco rit then fermata with cesura. 3rd section is back to 4/4 Eb Allegro. Starts with the eighth/quarter/eighth syncopation. Upper voices layer in with a 4e+a scalar run. Then it goes back to the original melody from the first section. The last few bars there are some accidentals. Ends with a unison 1 +- +3. Very musical with no “traps.” We had enough time to read through the musical several times. It was much easier than trying to teach the level 4 to a 3rd or 4th band.
2023 Appalachia by Tim Rhea Key - Eb throughout (c minor for 4/4); Time - 4/4 and 2/4; Beginning 4/4 - Andante Legato Major points - lots of staggered up-beat entrances. Common recognizable melody. Lots of call and response (&3&4 vs &1&2). Make sure to connect phrases and hold out notes full length. 2/4 - Allegro - opposite style of 4/4 Major points - starts with percussion and Xylophone solo! Not a lot of accidentals, mostly tricky with rhythm and articulations. TYMPANI tuning -G (changes to Ab on 2/4), Bb, C, Eb Percussion: Timpani, Bells, Chimes, Xylophone, Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Crash Cymbals Woodblock, Suspended Cymbal
2022 NO LEVEL 6 SIGHTREADING DUE TO COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
2021 NO LEVEL 6 SIGHTREADING DUE TO COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
2020 A Day at McKinney Roughs by Clifton Jones Key: F, Bb and Ab; Time: 3/4, 4/4; Tempo: Espressive/march FIVE TYMPANI!! Beginning is in 3/4 in F concert. Trumpets comer after count 1. Mm 19 fermata Then 3/4 in Bb. WW 16ths then half. Trumpet/Horn have a sfz and fermata 4/4 in Eb. March Tempo. Percussion soli. Dotted 8th/16th rhythms. mm 65 key of Ab 4/4 - NO PREP INTO IT. Dotted 8th/16ths. Low brass quarter rest 8th-8th half then repeat Ends on 1 rest 3 rest 1. Also: 3/4 in F espressivo legato with Clarinets/ Saxes on the melody with Count 3 entrance very very playable ends with a fermata. Marimba part is busy and needs to be covered by a GOOD player. Marimba NOT Xylo or bells!!!! 3/4 in Bb moderato Flutes have 4 16ths and a half note pattern for 3 measures followed by 8 16ths and a quarter every 2 measures. Clarinets join with the same pattern. Melody is carried by horns and saxes in basic quarter eighth eighth quarter pattern. Ends with 1 measure of silence, no percussion nothing followed by trumpets alone with Fp fermata. Ab March Patrol starts with snare bass for 1 measure followed by low brass on quarter note dotted 8th 16th 2 16ths eighth rest quarter pattern. Trumpets/horns/ clarinet 2 and 3 carry the melody but flutes and 1st clarinets have a 16th and 8th note pattern over the top of the melody. Moves to trumpet fanfare style with melody in the low brass and then back to the original melody/counter for a recap. Relatively few accidentals and most of those are in the Ab section. 75 measures and very very playable. The melody is very musical but the accompaniment parts are sometimes nonsensical or tricky just to be tricky. 3/4 in F Espressivo style in beg Repetitive marimba 16th pattern in beg 3/4 in Bb Moderato tempo; flute 16th note exposed lick in beg and then add clar 1, then all clarinets 4/4 in Ab Patrol March tempo Quarter, dotted 8th/16th, 2 16ths, 8th rest, quarter or 2 8th notes - throughout ... it starts in low winds 16th note 8th note melody in flute, oboe, and clar 1. Is only 75 measures long. Very playable More info from a director: 3/4 in F espressivo legato with Clarinets/ Saxes on the melody with Count 3 entrance very very playable ends with a fermata. Marimba part is busy and needs to be covered by a GOOD player. Marimba NOT Xylo or bells!!!! 3/4 in Bb moderato Flutes have 4 16ths and a half note pattern for 3 measures followed by 8 16ths and a quarter every 2 measures. Clarinets join with the same pattern. Melody is carried by horns and saxes in basic quarter eighth eighth quarter pattern. Ends with 1 measure of silence, no percussion nothing followed by trumpets alone with Fp fermata. Ab March Patrol starts with snare bass for 1 measure followed by low brass on quarter note dotted 8th 16th 2 16ths eighth rest quarter pattern. Trumpets/horns/ clarinet 2 and 3 carry the melody but flutes and 1st clarinets have a 16th and 8th note pattern over the top of the melody. Moves to trumpet fanfare style with melody in the low brass and then back to the original melody/counter for a recap. Relatively few accidentals and most of those are in the Ab section. 75 measures and very very playable. The melody is very musical but the accompaniment parts are sometimes nonsensical or tricky just to be tricky.
2019 Variations on a Jim Sudduth Hymn by Gabriel Musella NO INFORMATION AVAILABLE
2018 Lady Bird Lake by Clifton Jones Key: F and Bb; Time Signature: 4/4, 3/4, 4/4 The piece can be broken down into three sections. Begins in Concert F and 4/4 with a key change to Bb and 3/4 time for the middle (waltz section). Third section stays in Bb but changes back to 4/4. The piece is littered with accidentals throughout! First section is fairly straight forward. Biggest issue is the number of ties involved (this happens throughout the piece in multiple parts). There are ties in numerous lines in the opening and closing sections. The ties generally go from beat two to beat three, meaning there are lots of "te 4 te" happening throughout the piece. There are a few small sixteenth note runs that happen in the upper woodwinds, horn, and 1st trumpets in the first and third sections of the piece, but they are playable. He also throws in a triplet run in the upper woodwinds at the end of the first and third sections. The Waltz (second) section has a moving 8th note line that is covered in the 1st Flute, 1st Clarinet, and maybe 1st alto while the melody is being covered in the 2nd woodwind parts. 1st trumpets go up to a high Ab and have a sustained lyrical melody with ties that go across the bar line (kind of sneaky). The third and final section starts with a woodwind fugue with entrances every two measures and then he recaps everything from the first section of the piece (except now you are in Concert Bb). It's pretty playable but has its traps. Lots of accidentals and lots of ties!!!
2017 English Hymn Sketches by Timothy Rhea Key: F/Bb/Eb; Time Signature: 4/4, 3/4, 2/4; Tempo: Maestoso and Tempo di Marcia/Andante/Allegro Fanfare for the first couple of phrases, then it switches to "Tempo di Marcia" without a fermata or caesura. When this tempo change happens the low winds have a dotted-quarter-eighth rhythm and the snare drum is playing as well. This section is all march style with some accidentals. At the last measure of the march section everyone plays the first three beats then there is a rest on count four with a fermata over it. Next section is in Bb Major, 3/4 and Andante. First phrase is just woodwinds, second phrase is just brass, then I think one more woodwind phrase. Overall this section has a lot of small ensemble exposure. End of this section there is a fermata over a dotted half note. Next section is Eb, 2/4 and allegro. Here there is a 16 measure percussion break that starts with just snare who plays the whole time. Timpani plays for four measure starting in the fifth measure, then bells play the melody for four measures starting in the ninth measure, then timpani again the last four measures of the break. The end of the piece has some weird key/accidental things (Db's and Cb's) and modulates to something else at the end (sorry, I didn't have a chance to analyze it). Isolated wind notes with a timpani solo near the end. Overall there are quite a few accidentals and eighth-two sixteenth and two sixteenth-eighth rhythms. Beyond that it's pretty playable.
2016 Morning Hymn and Jubilation by Brian Beck Key: Eb/Bb; Tempo: Andante/Allegro/Jubiloso Notes: Andante - first half - key of Eb - clarinets have the melody most of the time. Clarinets pass the melody to flutes and saxophones at some point. LOTS of dynamic possibilities throughout this entire section. No rit. at the end of the andante section. Allegro/Jubilioso - Second Section - Bb Major - Starts off with a snare drum solo - sixthteeth notes/accents/little tricky. This passes to to odd entrances to the trumpets/french horns/full band. Big call and response (two measures) section between low brass and high brass. Lots and lots of sixteenth note runs in the flutes and clarinet sections. I would instantly allow these students to figure these sections out. No accidentals and playable. The ending of this allegro section has lots of accidentals from the low brass. Gb & Db. Be careful to point out the syncopated rhythm that's passed through the entire allegro section. It's eighth, quarter, eighth. This appears a lot. Lots of opportunity to make music in this section too - lots of written dynamics. Very playable overall
2015 Voyage of the Elissa by Clifton Jones Key: F/Bb/F; Tempo: Moderato marcialle throughout; Time Signature: 4/4, 3/4, 4/4 Notes: FULL of naturals, especially B natural in melody voices (flute, clarinet and trumpet) Dotted 8th-16th notes prevalent. “Noodly” ww runs in last third of piece. Independent trombone and baritone parts. Rhythms are ok otherwise. Trumpets have the melody in the beginning and closing section. The beginning and ending are in F Lydian. Technie is in the flute section mostly and sometimes doubles the alto sax. The 3/4 section does not have a clear melody. in 3/4 section, Alto saxes have 8th notes while clarinets have a "quasi-melody". Very strange piece, must be played confidently!!!
2014 Wind Sprint by Michael Worthington Key - Eb/F; Time - 4/4 and 3/4; Tough by playable. Allegro tempo through out with a molt rit near the end. E flat and F. Lots of accidentals leading into the final key change. Basically 4/4 thought out with a 3/4 measure thrown in. Challenging but very readable. More information on Level 6: Eb – F4/4 time, one bar of 3/4Not a long piece at all. Intro WW melody over Tpt/Horn or Tpt/Tbn rhymic motif,Tpt/Alto Sax repeat melody. There’s a long-note WW melody that’s more the “ballad” section but no real slow section because there isn’t a tempo change. Make sure all quarter notes are held out and counted through. There’s a L’istesso tempo but that means same tempo at the time change. But other than one bar of 3/4 (and that’s supposedly not where this marking is), there’s no time change. In Tpt/horn or tpt/tbn rhythmic motive, it’s important to hold out beat 4.There’s a multi-measure low brass rhythmic motive that’s a bit tricky with a rest on 1 in the middle of the pattern. It's a fairly accessible piece. One of the most accessible ones in recent years.