Concert Band - Grade 1
SKU: AP.36683
Composed by Craig Andrew
Fitzpatrick. Concert
Band; MakeMusic Cloud;
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Debut Series.
Score and Part(s). 134
pages. Alfred Music
#00-36683. Published by
Alfred Music (AP.36683).
UPC: 038081417523.
English.
Night is
the result of a
collaborative project
between the composer and
the 6th grade beginning
band directed by his wife
in Morton, Illinois. The
students in her band
class each write an
eight-measure melody as a
composition project which
is part of the beginning
band curriculum. These
melodies each start and
end on concert B-flat and
use only the notes the
students have learned on
their instruments. The
class voted on the best
melody, and the winner
was Majestic Night, Oh
Winter Night by Sarah
Gunter. The students then
observed how this melody
was developed by the
composer into a concert
band piece that they
would perform later that
year. Compositional terms
such as repetition,
fragmentation, and
augmentation could then
be taught to the 6th
graders in a new piece
for young band that was
written just for them.
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