Fanfare ode & festival
bob margolis (after claude gervaise)
Grade 2
About the music
Fanfare Ode & Festival (1982) uses music of popular dances of 16th-century Paris. Early dance music such as this is particularly appropriate for band: It was originally written for winds (a small Renaissance band). Vocal , organ, string, orchestral music--these often do not play well for band. But this dancing music , strongly rhythmic and tuneful, plays very well for modern concert band; and the fact that the tunes are old and hardly overused makes this arrangement all the more interesting and fresh.
Tempo & style
1. Bright (QN=120)
2. Gentle (QN=96)
3. Happy (QN=132)
2. Gentle (QN=96)
3. Happy (QN=132)
Ranges
Flute
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Clarinet 1
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Clarinet 2
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Trumpet
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Trombone
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instrumentation
WOODWIND
Piccolo Flute Oboe 1-2 Bassoon Eb Clarinet Clarinet 1, 2, 3 Alto Clarinet Bass Clarinet Eb Contrabass Clarinet Bb Contrabass Clarinet Alto Sax 1-2 Tenor Sax Baritone Sax |
BRASS
Trumpet 1, 2, 3 French Horn 1-2 Trombone 1, 2, 3 Euphonium Tuba String Bass |
PERCUSSION
Glockenspiel Chimes Xylophone Snare Drum Piccolo Snare Drum Bass Drum Crash Cymbals Tambourine Timpani |
teaching concept categories
teaching considerations
Fanfare Ode & Festival is a Grade II concert band composition that in no way "writes down" to the abilities of young players. Arranging this music has not been a matter of simplifying and diluting, for Grade II players, music that would otherwise be too hard for them, but rather of choosing technically appropriate music and setting it for a full and varied concert band instrumentation. As a result, although within the playing limitations of the musicians, the music is not typical of the Grade II genre. It might just as easily be programmed by a high school or college band. Nothing "gives it away" as being simple.