Kjos String Orchestra Grade 4 1/2 Full Conductor Score SO331F $8.00. Zach Wallmark. Rue de Royal. Neil A. Kjos Music Company Publisher

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1 Zach Wallmark Kos String Orchestra Grade / ull Conductor Score SO33 $800 SA M PL E Rue de Royal Neil A Kos Music Comany Publisher

2 The Comoser Zach Wallmark received his M in ass Perormance rom NYU and his MA in Music History rom the University o Oregon At resent, Mr Wallmark is ursuing a PhD in Musicology at UCLA As a scholar, he has ublished his research on the cognitive science o music in leading academic ournals, and has aeared as a seaker at numerous national and international conerences His orthcoming co-edited book, The Relentless Pursuit o Tone: Timbre in Poular Music, in under contract ith Oxord University Press In addition to his musicological ork, Mr Wallmark is an active comoser, arranger, teacher, and bassist In 00, his iece Transylvanian Tango as selected or erormance at the Midest Clinic in Chicago His azz comositions aear on numerous critically acclaimed recordings, including discs by the en Darish Trio and Gian Tornatore Mr Wallmark has erormed extensively at to venues in Ne York, Miami, and Portland He currently lives and orks in Los Angeles ith his ie Marie and son Remy The Comosition Rue de Royal (or Royal Street ) is a loving musical ostcard rom Ne Orleans, and like any rollicking arty in the ig Easy, it should be an oortunity to let loose and get unky! eore laying, ractice the bouncy rhythmic eel by having students sing or cla 8th notes ith a sing accent attern, like this: Â = Ç Since this may be your orchestra s irst exosure to sing, you might ant to exlain this igure as a long-short attern, or a soken doo-be Once students get the hang o it, you can try utting this rhythm to notes by having them lay through an easy scale or to ith a sing eel The irst measure is also good ractice (lus, it eatures a syncoation that occurs throughout the iece) eginning in m 3, imagine you re a sectator at a arade hearing the band getting closer and closer This 8-bar vam reeats ive times, and in each reetition a ne instrument oins the mix, groing louder each time Through a range o rhythmic and timbral eects, this section is meant to turn the orchestra into a ull rhythm section: izzicato cellos lay the tuba line (x), string-slaing violas act as the snare drum (x), thuming basses rovide the boom o the bass drum (3x), hile sul onticello violins suly the unky rhythmic accents (nd violin: x, st violin: 5x) Work ith students to tightly coordinate these interlocking rhythms: irst and oremost, this vam is an oortunity or your orchestra to really groove! Ater to statements o the lively main theme, the mood turns suddenly ensive (m 59) Conducting this section in to ill hel emhasize this contrast, encouraging students to donshit to a more subdued tenor (you can return to a regular our-beat attern in m 73) or the concluding vam beginning (m 89), hich is reeated our times total, imagine the arade band getting gradually quieter and it retreats into the distance: cellos and violas (x), bass (x), st violin (3x), and nd violin (x) So ut on your Mardi Gras costume and enoy the arty As they say in Ne Orleans: Laissez les bon tems rouler! ( Let the good times roll! ) Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 st Violin 8 nd Violin 5 Viola 5 5 String ass ull Conductor Score Additional scores and arts are available To hear a recording o this iece or any other Kos ublication, lease visit koscom SO33

3 3 Learning ank: Music o Ne Orleans Ne Orleans as ounded by the rench as the caital o their Louisiana colony in 78 Situated at the mouth o the Mississii River, the city quickly became a cultural crossroads o the Ne World, a lace here AroCaribbean inluences reely mingled ith Euroean and Native American elements This cultural ste or gumbo made it one o the most musically rich, unique cities in the orld, a mark o distinction it still carries PL E Narrating the history o music in Ne Orleans is like telling a story ith lots o main characters During the 9th Century, classical music lourished in the city, giving rise to the irst ermanent oera comany in North America It as also the birthlace o the comoser Louis Moreau Gottschalk, hose exeriences groing u in such a lively environment let a dee mark on his music or examle, his iano iece Le ano (855) is an evocative reresentation o the rhythmic, syncoated, Arican-inluenced bano music he heard as a child in Congo Square, the irst lace in America here slaves ere ree to gather every eek to erorm music, dance, and tell stories rom Arica The 9th Century also sa the rise o the brass band tradition in Ne Orleans Playing at arades and other rody outdoor events, including the annual Mardi Gras celebration, marching brass bands brought music to the streets, here it continues to resound In addition, since as early as 89, brass bands have been used to accomany uneral rocessions, a tradition unique to Ne Orleans azz unerals add oyul celebration to otherise somber events SA M Around 900, this vibrant and diverse musical scene as the birthlace o America s classical music, azz Inluenced by many sources including brass bands, classical song, the blues, and church music azz came about as a ree-orm, rhythmically syncoated style tyically layed by small grous consisting o trumet, clarinet, trombone, and rhythm section (iano, bano, bass or tuba, and drums) Signiicantly, early azz, hich today is sometimes called Dixieland music, shocased grou and solo imrovisation This innovative develoment, hich alloed musicians to lay reely and make it u as they ent, is erhas the deining eature o azz In the hands o such Ne Orleans natives as Louis Armstrong (trumet and vocals), Sydney echet (clarinet and saxohone), King Oliver (cornet), Kid Ory (trombone), and elly Roll Morton (iano), azz quickly sread to become the dominant oular music in America (and the orld) during the 90s through the 90s ut the story doesn t end there Ne Orleans has layed a ivotal role in the develoment o many other oular styles over the ast 70 years, including R (Proessor Longhair, ats Domino), rock n roll (Little Richard), unk (The Meters), and hi-ho (Lil Wayne) Today, a stroll don ourbon Street in the rench Quarter (a very old district knon or its music and nightlie) allos you to chaotically exerience the hole history o Ne Orleans music all at once: the ail o a azz clarinet mingles ith the electric guitar o a rock band, and the booming bass o a ra grou holds lively conversation ith a blaring brass band Indeed, Ne Orleans is a music-lover s aradise! SO33

4 ull Conductor Score Arox time 3:0 Rue de Royal Zach Wallmark Ne Orleans unk Style (Sing 8th) (q = 5-60) Violins n 3 5 Viola String ass 6 div [ 7 n n b n b [ SO33 0 Neil A Kos Music Comany, 38 utland Drive, San Diego, Caliornia 97 International coyright secured All rights reserved Printed in USA WARNING! The contents o this ublication are rotected by coyright la To coy or reroduce them by any method is an inringement o the coyright la Anyone ho reroduces coyrighted matter is subect to substantial enalties and assessments or each inringement

5 sla string / ood side o bo 6 b n b 7 [ 8 9 n 0 hit ront o instrument / base o ist (gently!) unis 3 5 n b n b [ SO33

6 sul onticello n n n [ n 3 35 n [ sul onticello sul onticello n 3 n b b n b 33 [ [ 36 n 37 n [ 3 n 38 n n SO33

7 7 39 n [ 0 b b b n [ normale 3 8 n n n n n 9 b n b b n n [ 5 [ 50 b b n n n b b 5 6 n n strum / thumb n 7 n 5 n n n SO33

8 n 56 n n n n n n n 57 6 b n n [ b P n 59 In P P n 66 6 (straight 8ths) div SO33

9 b n b b b b 77 sub sub sub sub sub In b *artók - sna string against ingerboard **luck and slide to b n 7 69 n n n n n unis 79 * ** n n n n n 8 n n b n b SO33

10 n n n n n n 87 n 83 n n n 88 8 n n n 89 sla string / ood n b n n b 95 SO33

11 n hit ront o instrument / base o ist (gently!) [ 08 n 05 n 09 [ SO33

12 0 n [ n n P 3 n oco a oco decresc n 8 n n 5 [ 9 [ 0 6 n n n n oco a oco decresc 7 [ n oco a oco decresc oco a oco decresc () () SO33 - Rue de Royal SO33