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Level 6 2025
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
BEAUTIFUL SEATTLE
by LeAndre Benton
Level 6 2024
RIVER'S EDGE
by Willie 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.
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
APPALACHIA
by Tim Rhea