GHOSTS OF THE TAMAN NEGARA

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1 YOUNG BAND GHOSTS OF THE TAMAN NEGARA Victor Loez (ASCA) INSTRUMENTATION Conductor 8 C Flute Oboe Bassoon st B% Clarinet nd B% Clarinet B% Bass Clarinet 5 E% Alto Saxohone B% Tenor Saxohone E% Baritone Saxohone st B% Trumet nd B% Trumet Horn in F Trombone Baritone Baritone Treble Clef Mallet ercussion (Vibrahone, Bells, Xylohone) Timani ercussion I (Rain Stick, Snare Drum, Bass Drum) ercussion II (Susended Cymbal, Concert Toms, Claves,, Triangle) WORLD ARTS Available for donload from.alfred.com/orldarts Horn in E% Trombone in B% Bass Clef Trombone in B% Treble Clef Baritone in B% Bass Clef in E% Bass Clef in E% Treble Clef in B% Bass Clef in B% Treble Clef lease note: Our band and orchestra music is no being collated by an automatic high-seed system. The enclosed arts are no sorted by age count, rather than score order. We hoe this ill not resent any difficulty for you in distributing the arts. Thank you for your understanding.

2 ROGRAM NOTES This comosition as insired by an article ritten by Aaron Hoover about Dr. Kae Kaanishi s three-year ildlife exedition in the jungle tracking the ildest of ild animals: the tiger. Wildlife exerts estimate there are only 7,000 tigers left in the orld, the majority in India. Tigers are ell studied, but exerts kno very little about them, erhas,000 tigers thought to remain in the Southeast Asian countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, due to unstable or reressive olitical regimes hich have revented Western scientists from orking in these counties. The goal of Kaanishi s doctoral research in ildlife ecology and conservation (at the University of Florida) as to solve a bit of the region s mystery. The study took lace in Malaysia s largest national ark, the Taman Negara, a,677 square mile road ith a handful of trails. The Taman Negara is a hilly ark dominated by huge, ancient trees, thick rainforest and numerous fast-floing rivers and streams in lo areas. The dense vegetation gives tigers amle cover, hile the abundant rainfall and moist soil easily obscures or ashes aay their tracks and scat. Tigers live at very lo density in the rainforest, and as a result, little is knon about them. According to Dr. Kaanishi, the roject ould not have been ossible if she had sought to track, cature or radio-collar the tigers. Instead, she decided to try a different aroach, using the technology of remote self-activating cameras. laced along game trails or other laces tigers are likely to visit, these cameras, equied ith infrared sensors, automatically sna ictures hen animals aroach, traing the animals on film, much as real tras collar live animals. As a first in Malaysia, her roject generated much interest among tiger researchers orldide, and it received funding from several ildlife and tiger conservation grous. The bulk of Kaanishi s suort came from the Save the Tiger Fund, oerated by the U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and ExxonMobil. Other sonsors included the University of Florida, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund, the World Wildlife Fund and the London Zoo s st-century Tiger Conservation roject. To maximize her chance of hotograhing tigers, Kaanishi decided to lace more than 50 camera tras around three, 75- square-mile sites on the ark. She and her team then lanned to return to the cameras eriodically to reset them and retrieve the film. This certainly as no simle roject. After months of rain, insects and near misses, Kaanishi s cameras amassed,6 hotos. They cature a vast array of usually unseen, rare and exotic animals. Some of the animals look directly into the camera, either ith seeming surrise or inquisitiveness. But erhas the most striking, hoever, images sho them aarently unaare of any human resence. The film yielded some surrises. For examle, all the leoards ere black, an unusual coloration that results from a condition, melanism, tied to a recessive gene. Just 6 hotos, a mere. ercent, catured tigers. Because tigers have distinctive stries, Kaanishi as able to identify individuals. In the rocess of identifying these animals, Kaanishi estimated the number of tigers in the ark: 5 to 8 adults, a density estimate comarable to those of other rimary rainforests in Indonesia. When one comares the result ith the threat to tiger oulations in similar-sized arks in other tiger ranges, Taman Negara is unique and suerb. Although Kaanishi has become something of an exert on tigers in the Taman Negara, as a result of her exedition, the cats have ket at least one major secret from her, at least for no. Desite sending nearly three years in the rainforest and alking in laces erhas never visited by another human being, Kaanishi never sa a single tiger. It as like a ghost, or maybe a sirit is more aroriate, she said. We kno that e are there and e are dran to it, but e cannot see it or exerience it. NOTES TO THE CONDUCTOR My intent in this comosition is to cature the adventure of seeking elusive tigers in the orld s ildest jungles. The overall effect is a musical exedition that emulates the exeriences of the jungle. The introduction is somehat of a mysterious sounding theme that includes jungle-like ercussive sounds, hich lead to the main theme at measure 9. The A section at measure 9 is to be layed lightly and in a layful manner. The rhythmic suort should not overshado the melody. Measures 5 through should be layed lightly and in a cantabile manner. The B section, at measure 5, introduces a beautiful melody layed by a solo flute. Remember to kee suorting lines under the soloist. This section should be layed in a doloroso musical style and build until measure 65, hen the temo accelerates a bit. The entire section thereafter should flo. Some liberty ith the interretation of this section is encouraged. At measure 79, it should be somehat climatic and lush until measure 87 hen it returns to the A section. The coda is to be layed aggressively, all the ay to the end of the iece. I hoe that you and your ensemble find GHOSTS OF THE TAMAN NEGARA a rearding music education exerience.

3 CONDUCTOR GHOSTS OF THE TAMAN NEGARA VICTOR LOEZ (ASCA) C Flute b b Sloly = 78 Oboe b b Bassoon Solo B Clarinets B Bass Clarinet staggered breathing.... E Alto Saxohone B Tenor Saxohone E Baritone Saxohone Cue: Bsn. Sloly = 78 B Trumets Horn in F b Trombone Baritone Cue: Bsn. staggered breathing.... Mallet ercussion (Vibrahone, Bells, Xylohone,) Timani b b (Tune: C, G, B ) æ. æ. æ. æ. æ æ ercussion I (Rain Stick, Snare Drum, Bass Drum) ercussion II (Susended Cymbal, Concert Toms, Claves,, Triangle) 70S Rain Stick. Sus. Cym.(scrae) Concert Toms Claves.... Toms MMVI BELWIN-MILLS UBLISHING COR., (ASCA), a division of ALFRED UBLISHING CO. INC. All Rights Reserved including ublic erformance To urchase a full-length recording of this iece, go to alfred.com/donloads Sus. Cym.(scrae) 5 Claves 6

4 Fl. b b Conductor - 0 Ob. b b Bsn... Cls. B. Cl... A. Sax. T. Sax. Bar. Sax.. lay. 0 Tts. Hn. b Tbn. Bar... lay... Mlt. erc. Tim. b b Vibrahone æ æ. æ. æ æ erc. I.. erc. II 70S High Tom 7. 8 Sus. Cym.(scrae) Toms 9 Middle Tom 0 Claves

5 Fl. b b Conductor - With motion # b cresc. oco a oco Ob. b b n cresc. oco a oco Bsn. n b n cresc. oco a oco Cls. B. Cl.. # # n n # n n # cresc. oco a oco cresc. oco a oco # cresc. oco a oco A. Sax. T. Sax. Bar. Sax... # b n # n # cresc. oco a oco cresc. oco a oco # cresc. oco a oco Tts. Hn. Tbn. b.. With motion # n n b cresc. oco a oco cresc. oco a oco cresc. oco a oco cresc. oco a oco Bar. Mlt. erc. Tim. b b æ Vibrahone æ.. æ. n n n b b # b (Change: C to D) n cresc. oco a oco n n cresc. oco a oco n cresc. oco a oco erc. I. erc. II 70S Toms. 5 6