Chapter 6 FORBIDDEN FORTRESS

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1 Chapter 6 ORBIDDEN ORTRESS 1 The STORMQuest 2 Jourey Through Shadowood The Search for Truefire Revege of the Darkseekers 5 Courage at the Wa of ire 6 oridde ortress 7 Escape from BATAAN 8 Truefire 9 ight of the Truefire Raiders 10 The Defeders of Truefire 11 Batte for OeWord 12 Time i the Baace 1 By Love Compeed at the Hour of Shadows 1 Last Outpost of reedom 15 Triumph at CHOSIN 16 Scees from STORMQUEST 89 at :00 y Stephe Meio IGNA 8 eruary 1997 Commissioed y ad Dedicated to the Moutrie Midde Schoo Bad Mr Joh R Spiter, Coductor Coductors, rederig ay STORM work have the composer/copyright hoder s permissio to photocopy the Score & arts for the soe ad specific use of their studets ad/or musicias residig i the orgaizatio which ivested i a origia copy of the work from STORMWORKS Reproductio, arragig, trascriig or excerptig for ay other purpose, icudig trasport to aother ocatio or orgaizatio is prohiited y aw Music which has ee purchased i the Digita orm may e prited with a rues pertaiig to prited Music sti i effect A Rights Reserved Iteratioa Copyright Secured Stephe Meio is a memer of ASCA Stephe Meio/STORMWORKS 2d & rd Mieium steve@stormwordcom wwwstormwordcom

2 STEHEN MELILLO, COMOSER STORMWORLDCOM Coductors, rederig ay STORM work have the composer/copyright hoder s permissio to photocopy the Score & arts for the soe ad specific use of their studets ad/or musicias residig i the orgaizatio which ivested i a origia copy of the work from STORMWORKS Reproductio, arragig, trascriig or excerptig for ay other purpose, icudig trasport to aother ocatio or orgaizatio is prohiited y aw Music which has ee purchased i the Digita orm may e prited with a rues pertaiig to prited Music sti i effect A Rights Reserved Iteratioa Copyright Secured Stephe Meio is a memer of ASCA Stephe Meio/STORMWORKS 2d & rd Mieium wwwstormwordcom Dear Coductor Thak you for eievig i, ad ivestig i the ody of work caed STORMWORKS Oce you ve tasted the possiiities ad experieced the reactios from your studets ad audieces, a arge ody of iterreated work awaits you If you ve ivested i the whoe package or Suite Bravo It was the est way to go The STORMSite at wwwstormwordcom provides uptodate ifo o a that is happeig with STORMWORKS Thaks so much for champioig this Music ad Godspeed i the joureys ahead SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Oe woud t thik of uyig software without havig the appropriate hardware With this same commosese thikig, coductors rederig Storm Works shoud e propery equipped I the Bad of the rd Mieium, the orchestratio empoyed i the ody of work caed Stormworks, we fid the stadard wid ad percussio eseme augmeted y the use of 2 sythesizers A seemigy iocet eap, it is repete with fuctioaity The geeric souds ascried to the sythesizers are: AD Bass, (sometimes iao ad/or Chorus) ad Harp Commets aout the types of souds ad maer of iterpretig the varied otatio may e foud i the Brief Itro to the Music of Stephe Meio with AQs residig o the STORMSite at stormwordcom I 1980, the cost for such a udertakig was sigificat Now, for a costeffective, mutiusefu ivestmet, your program ca e readiy equipped Of course, this is oy if you are competey uequipped right ow Most music programs wi have at east oe studet who ows a sythesizer, or at east kows someoe who does I the eary 1980s, I was ae to recruit a great umer of studets simpy y suggestig that there was a pace for them i the eectroics sectio I ivite you, ow with Music that cas for it, to e champios of a wider ad fuer Music Educatio O the STORMWORKS CDs, you wi hear how these souds, paced i a stereo fied aroud the ad as i the diagram o the seatig chart page ehaces the overtoe hierarchy ad resoace of the ad whie remaiig somewhat traditioa i its orchestra usage Two speakers, yig fat o the foor, shoud e paced so that the soud is directed ack ito the eseme As we approach a of the ew tomorrows, studets eed to pay Music, that whie servig the cause ad purpose of Music Educatio, excites them Music which soicay competes with the iudatio of supremey produced souds they hear i their every day ives A vast variety of iterreated ad graduated pieces as we as accompayig Teachig Toos await you Now, as aways, it s up to you Oy you ca e the guide your studets eed, ad oy you ca deiver this Music to that imitess ream we refer to as Music To that Quest, oe ad hoorae, Godspeed Stephe Meio, Composer

3 Chapter 6 STORMQUEST oridde ortress 89 at :00 y Stephe Meio IGNA 8 eruary 1997 Commissioed y ad Dedicated to the Moutrie Midde Schoo Bad Mr Joh R Spiter, Coductor TECHNICAL Your kids ca pay this piece we This piece, as do a pieces, cas for carefu aacig ad tuig The rage of this piece fas withi a grade 2 work for youger ad with some optios idicated i the score ad parts The secod cariets stay eow the reak, ad the orchestratio stays withi the somewhat orma ad expected parameters of the youg ad There are some deviatios, however I oridde ortress, the trumpets are asked to go to their G, ad the tromoes are asked to pay i the ower regios of their istrumets Optios are give for them to make chages shoud this ecome ecessary I this movemet, more tha i the other chapters of STORMQuest, the music otatio appears to make the Music more difficut tha it is Though there are tricky momets, the piece is ot difficut There is o differece i these souds ad the souds that woud e writte for professioa musicias That is the whoe approach to STORMQuest There s othig so omious aout a G it s just aother ote to e eared Approach the piece that way Look at its vocauary, determie the otes the kids wi eed to kow, troueshoot first ad the ejoy the piece Rememer my favorite quote from Araham Lico If I had 8 hours to chop dow a tree, I d sped six sharpeig the axe The Musica demad, as aways exceeds ay gradig system I oridde ortress, tris wi e expored, exaggerated dyamics, gisses or swipes ad cocerted impacts Strive for dyamic dyamics Have the kids focus o the poit of the crescedo markig rather tha the ope ed Ecourage them to get quiet first ad the ope up You ca examie this i more detai i the ecosed BRIE INTRO TO MELILLO MUSIC With everyoe feeig the SILENCES together, the impacts wi soud arge ad powerfu A Tri age is icuded for your woodwids, with diagrams suggestig usefu tris I the music otatio, 16th otes are writte They shoud strive for this rhythmic accuracy whie empoyig the TRILL figerigs But fear ot Shoud the kids e uae to cotro the 16ths, the resutat TRILL wi sti create the desired effect Aso, a GLISS markig appears i the music otatio Wherever possie the kids shoud SWIE at the soud, sidig, hafvavig, chromatic gissig whatever is physicay possie o the istrumet to get the effect The AD Bass part shoud soud a octave eow what is writte, ad is ofte doued for additioa stregth This adjustmet ca e made quite easiy o ay keyoard or syth modue ease e sure to read A BRIE INTRO TO MELILLO MUSIC The eseme of the ew mieium requires a awareess of, ad a appreciatio for, the eectroic compoet As with the STORMQuest piece, TIME i the BALANCE, the studets are asked to pay sieces i order to deiver cocerted, weprepared ad deivered impacts The foowig exercise from TIME i the BALANCE wi aso e of cocer to oridde ortress

4 Let s examie measures 80 Before payig it i the piece, or immediatey after the first crash, write this o the ackoard Have the kids LAY the Souds ad the SILENCES The sieces, the UMS, shoud e heavier i weight tha the souds This is importat to the percussioists as we, ecause this payig of the sieces heps to set up the feeig of a groove which is the desired musica effect Rememer, this Music requires a groove ad ot a straight upaddow mechaizatio Whe they re doig it perfecty, write this o the oard: After they ve doe this versio perfecty, expai to them that the oy differece was the itroductio of BARLINES, a covetio of orgaizig a rehearsa The reaity, the iterpay of fet souds ad fet sieces remaied uchaged The, write the foowig: Ta umum Ta umum Ta um um Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum Ta um um Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum Ta umum The oy differece here is the itroductio of stadard music otatio The 2 eighth ote UMS are cosoidated i the covetio of a quarter rest Bad word Quarter Siece As og as the kids are feeig the TWO paces i the quarter siece, they re doig it perfecty Aso focus o hodig the tempo, so that a groove egis to happe A percussio groove egis at measure 77 Do ot worry aout the actua otatio The payer ca pay straight 16th otes from had to had o the triage or high hat Accets withi the groove ca e ad ied What s importat is that it grooves This groove shoud fee impied at measure 5, though the percussio is ot payig yet A worthy goa is to have the kids imagie the groove at measure 77 whe they re payig at measure 5 oridde ortress is ut oe part of a arger work caed STORMQuest ad STORMQuest is ut oe part of a persoa missio caed STORMWORKS Withi its musica oudary of :00 musica themes coect it to may of its other parts, wherei ies the greater, sige message That message is for you to discover Godspeed Sicerey,

5 8 eruary 1997 : pm excerpt from ersoa Log Today is Joh Wiiams' 65th irthday I caot te you the umer of peope who have cosciousy ad ukowigy ee affected ad ifueced y this ma 20 years ago i a gaaxy far, far away There is so much to te aout Joh Wiiams I rememer sittig i the pit at oe of our Summer Youth estiva Musica rehearsas Do't rememer the pay No it was WEST SIDE STORY or those who have foowed my fairy tae we, you kow Ayway, the tech guys were payig a ew soudtrack over the auditorium system It was the music from STAR WARS A uch of us who were there eary to warmup, sat i utter amazemet The, I was i NYC with a fried of mie Joh Coey We saw the marquee: STAR WARS "Hey, et's go see this kids' movie," I said "The music is reay good" Our first gimpse of STAR WARS happeed at a ripe time i my ife, ad we saw it i just the right pace The Loew's Astor aza The scree was huge stories high The soud system was gigatic We sat i the th row I' ever forget ad I've ee sittig i the th row ever sice ever sice It was 12 oo whe Joh ad I wet i ad it was past midight whe we came out We watched every showig A i a, I paid times to see STAR WARS ad I have o idea aout how may times I have watched it o teevisio or video Soo, I wi pay to see it for my th time A major, major force i this movie was the Music I fact, without Joh Wiiams' score, producers fet they had made a "fop" movie Like Erich Korgod, Joh Wiiams had reawakeed Hoywood to the huge, Straussia Orchestra im Score So may peope have cotiued i the practice which he, Joh Wiiams reiitiated He is much ike Korgod to me hoest ad sicere ad good This ew "awakeig" goes o today, ad I'm sure a whoe ew geeratio wi e affected y this woderfu ad I hardy ever use that word Movie/Music I mea WONDER ad ULL I fact my writig, reachig kids who wi see this movie o the ig scree ecause of George Lucas' Visio, wi have ew meaig You see, across the geeratios ad separated oy y Time we are so much aike I was i Bosto, durig my ast year at Bosto Coservatory whe Joh Wiiams appeared as the coductor of the Bosto ops No oe at the coservatory kew who he was do you eieve it? Just me You see, I was deepy iterested i the ma who wrote the Music to the fim that ecame a part of our cuture I wish the timig worked out differety, ut he came to Bosto I eft I ega to teach ad dreamed of oe day goig to Hoywood to make im Music Whe EMIRE came out, I was teachig at Chester, NY my first year as a teacher I wrote a etter to George Lucas It was typed No computer yet Of course, it seems siy, kowig what I kow today, that it woud ever e possie to reach ay of those guys But with iocece, I tried Whe Retur of the Jedi came out, I was disappoited The epic had ecome the trite But that is aother story I wi aways ejoy STAR WARS ad EMIRE STRIKES BACK Of course, for me, it was Joh Barry ad Jerry Godsmith who tured o the cock i my sou ad made me aware of im Music i the first pace ut ike I said, I was ripe, at just the right age as Toshiko Akiyoshi poits out to e ifueced ad "impressed" y the startig ad uaashedy huge Music of Joh Wiiams Ad so, I woud ike to dedicate this chapter, ORBIDDEN ORTRESS to Joh Wiiams You see, iterestigy eough, it was the Akira Kurasawa fim, ORBIDDEN ORTRESS that ispired STAR WARS So you see, there are may circes of coectio Here s oe more I composed the piece o 8 eruary, Joh Wiiam s irthday Whe it was fiished eig typeset, it was 10 eruary Jerry Godsmith s irthday Tak aout a moth Ad so, I woud aso ike to pay triute to him I rememer eig 12 years od whe I first heard Jerry Godsmith Music It is to him that I attriute the awakeig of my Sou Yes, a high triute to make Jerry Godsmith has ee my Teacher ad I greaty admire him ad a those who have come efore him I metio these idividuas i my STORMWatch ersoa Thoughts o Great Music Music is deepy persoa to me ad you kow, there are peope who woud actuay compai aout me sharig such persoa thoughts ad history with you A puisher woud ever have wasted the ik or the paper to prit this page ad yet, is this ot the very essece of it a? Thak you for sharig i the specia eauty of Music Thak you for sharig this Music, humy coceived, with your kids You have give your ife to a great ad oe purpose that of Music ad the sharig of Music, as a Teacher I hoour you Thaks ad Godspeed

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