Grade 3 Hint/Title Flashcards
(clarinet soli beginning, then fl/trp low counter)
Air for Band, Frank Erickson
(cheesy American)
American Folk Fantasy, John Edmondson
(familiar melody, band/horn melody)
Ammerland, Jacob de Haan
(Drums and muted trumpets)
Ancient Voices, Michael Sweeney
(key change towards ends)
Blessed are They, Brahms/Beuhlman
(grand intro, 45 second clip, cartoonish ending)
Block M March, Jerry Bilik
(brisk trumpet melody)
Celebration of Life, Ralph Hultgren
(waves of melody then bass!)
Chimes of Liberty, Edwin Franko Goldman
(oboe/flute sad melody with cadence)
Come Sweet Death, Bach/Alfred Reed
(one flute, then two flutes, then band)
Dier’ in De, Warren Barker
(builds at beginning, muted trp solo midway-end)
Fandango, Frank Perkins
(reminds me of famous western)
Flashing Winds, Jan van der Roost
(“flutters” with trumpet race call)
Galop from Genevieve…, Jacques Offenbach/Bourgeois
(2 diff sections? 1. cool bass line 2. greekish w/ accel.)
Greek Folk Song Suite, Franco Cesarini
(trombone glisses)
Highbridge Excursions, Mark Williams
(“and to keep our honor clean”…trp solo)
Hymn for the Altruistic, John Bogenschutz
(Did Ticheli Arr? “County Derry”)
Irish Tune from County Derry, Percy Grainger
(flowing 8th notes upper, lush notes under)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, J.S. Bach/Alfred Reed
(slow start, tempo change at very end)
Kentucky 1800, Claire Grundman
(ascending line, chime! Light march)
Liberty Bell March, John Philip Sousa
(beautiful horn/baritone counter mel in middle)
March of the Belgian Parachutists, Leemans/Bourgeois
(vocals parts)
Mazama, Jay Chattaway
(fast 16ths in horn, brisk low brass mel)
National Emblem (March), Edwin Bagley
(low brass heavy, bass drum!)
Northwest Suite, John O’ Reilly
(mid way build followed by brisk then slow end)
Overture for Winds, Charles Carter
(choppy brass ascending line in two keys)
Parade of the Tall Ships, Jay Chattaway
(1. trp main mel, hit hit hit, soft hit hit hit 2. repeated 8th note rhythm throughout)
Sea Songs, Ralph Vaughan Williams
(tom drum…piccolo)
Suite Provencale, Jan van der Roost
(fast motive, bass stop, repeat motive)
Slavonic Dance, Dvorak/Longfield
(lots of “flutters”/grace notes in the wws)
Valdres March, Johannes Hanssen
(horns, low brass cadence / saxes, oboe flute mel)
With Quiet Courage, Larry Daehn
(weak strong, weak strong, weak strong!
Washington Post March, John Philip Sousa
(mating calls)
Western Dance, Clare Grundman