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RESOLUTION FANFARE
by
Carol Brittin Chambers
Level 2 2025
Key - Bb
Tempo - Maestoso
Piece is quite short - around 36 measures. Very playable but if your kids struggle with breathing every 2 measures it will show immediately
Two back to back sections that trumpets and snare drum drop out with limited percussion to help with timing.
Limited crescendos and decrescendos. Accents in last five measure are only articulations.
Winds have nothing harder than a quarter 2 8th and a half note or two quarters.
Range is basically a Bb concert scale.
A few measures with rest on Count 4
NEW: Before the last rehearsal number of the piece, the flutes have an a natural on beat four so make sure they don't miss it. It may be doubled as a b in the trumpets (I would assume) but not sure. The alto saxes have several f sharps.
There are places where high voices have a melody and the low voices have quarter note, quarter rest stuff underneath. It's not challenging but the rhythm changes slightly from measure to measure.
The melody for a few sections is four quarters notes with a slur under the first two notes
The snare part has like a 1 2te 3teta 4 situation There's a rehearsal block at m. 9 but the trumpets come in 4 measures after 9.
There are a few dotted half note rhythms.
Crescendo into a rest on beat four followed by a forte entrance on 1 around halfway through the piece
PRACTICE WILLIE OWEN'S PRIDE OF AMERICA as this is a lot like it
Percussion: Snare Drum Bass Drum, Cymbals, Triangle, Timpani, Bells
Level 2 2024
WALK OF COURAGE
by
Carol Brittin Chambers
Key - Eb
Time - 4/4
Tempo - Moderate march
1st four measures unison rhythms.
Clarinets and trumpets have parts that go from 2 part to unison in several places at 5.
12 is basically a repeat of first phrase, but at f.
At 20, low brass rhythm is half note, half note, quarter, eighth, eighth, quarter, quarter. Woodwinds is the opposite. @ 25 the trumpets come in with the quarter, eighth, eighth, quarter, quarter rhythm. Last four measures has unison rhythms.
Upper winds and brass have a dotted half note with the low brass having quarter notes in a couple of spots.
When winds have a dotted half note, snare usually has sixteenths on count four.
The TC Baritone part does not match the BC baritone part on beat 1. If played as written, it should sound as if a wrong note was played.
More information:
VERY PLAYABLE. Very straight forward. key of Eb. Only slurs in the piece are where the half notes are, and that's only 3-4 measures. The biggest thing she has that looks like it needs to be emphasized are the dynamics and accents. They change every 6-8 measures.
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Very much playable. Block band stuff through most of it. Low Brass unison through most. Low Brass have some leaps from middle Space Eb to Higher Bb and back down. the MIDDLE SECTION is slightly different from the rest so be sure to hit it. Students may feel a bit insecure since its softer and a different melody. The hardest rhythm is the 1 2& 3 4. The end is a repetition of the beginning. AA BA type piece. A section is super easy and the B section is just as easy, but different.
Can confirm all the other info that's been posted so far. Ending is unison rhythms. Short - about 36ish measures long (cant remember for sure but it was around 36 measures. Plenty time to play through it a few times if you choose to. Percussion is very playable. Small one note timpani solo at the end (quarter not pick up to like the last two bars, but only the timpani has it) The flow and tempo are very steady. Allegro Moderato. Range is very playable. Highest note in trumpet was a fourth line D. Low Brass go to top of staff Bb. The two eight notes that are part of the melody do change, but in the low brass the eighth notes are just repeated notes mostly.
Level 2 2023
FANFARE MARCH
by William Carpenter
Key - Eb
Time - 4/4
ERROR in the Clarinet 1 part. It jumps up an octave higher in one measure. Our region just covered up that measure and rewrote it. Haven’t heard anything from Gabe Musella about that error. *NOTE: Error has been fixed on part, but not on score
As written in their part, goes up to high Bb above the staff.
Measure 38, Count 4, the oboe Eb should be up an 8va in unison with the flute
Moderate march tempo. Low reeds and low brass have a Db accidental. Staccato quarter notes show up throughout.
More info:
Melody
- 3 4 1 2& 3 4
1- 3 4 1——
Some have a whole rest in measure 1 and come in on measure 2.
Horns start on Eb.
Low Brass get melody that’s a repeat of first melody introduced. They need to play strong.
Upper Woodwinds get a new melody that has some changing 8th note patterns. Be sure to balance accompaniment to them.
Staccato quarter notes in accompaniment.
Percussion have whole note and half note rolls, flams, etc. (need a strong snare drum reader/player).
Timpani has some entrances on beat 3.
Ends on a tied whole note to an 8th note on beat 1.
Several dynamic changes, crescendos, decrescendos. Nothing surprising.
Be careful of concert A-flats.
Euph/Tuba have concert D-flats.
Remember that accidentals carry through the measures!
Very Playable. Just keep in mind the moderato march style.
More info:
The grade 2 Sight-reading is in eb. It has 2 occurrences of concert Dbs in the first 16 measures in the tenor and bass voices. Then the rest of the piece is all in key. March tempo. All the dynamic changes are measure long crescendos or decrecsendos in the last bar of a phrase. The last note is a whole note ff eb major chord. All the melody parts are doubled. Trumpet, flute, clarinet 1 have it at one point, alto sax and French horn at one spot, and all tenor and bass voices at another. The trombone and baritone parts are identical throughout. There is a juxtaposition of the background parts with staccato march style quarter notes against connected melody. Despite being labeled as march tempo, all the staccatos are marked. The melody is almost the same every time it is stated, each time with a new group. The dynamics were written as block dynamics, meaning that each time a new group gets the melody the background parts will need to back off to make melody prominent.
Tympani are F, Bb and Eb
Percussion: Timpani, Bells, Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Crash Cymbals, Triangle