Kjos String Orchestra Grade 3 Full Conductor Score SO264F $6.00. Kirt Mosier. Two Scenes From The Hollow SAMPLE. Neil A. Kjos Music Company Publisher

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1 Kirt Mosier Kjos String Orchestra Grade 3 Full Conductor Score SO64F $6.00 Two Scenes From The Hollow Neil A. Kjos Music Comany Publisher

2 SO64 The Comoser Kirt Mosier is an accomlished orchestra director at Lee s Summit High School and Pleasant Lea Junior High School located in the Lee s Summit R-7 School District in Missouri. He has been teaching since 986 and rior to his teaching osition with the R-7 school district Mr. Mosier was director o orchestras or nine years at Raytown South High School and at Raytown South Middle School in the Raytown Missouri C- School District. Mr. Mosier served as an adjunct roessor at Baker University where he taught music history and is currently an adjunct roessor at the University o Missouri at Kansas City where he teaches arranging to music education graduate students. Mr. Mosier holds a B.M.E. degree rom the University o Missouri at Kansas City as well as an M.M. degree in comosition rom the same institution. During his teaching career Mr. Mosier s grous have consistently received the highest honor ratings and have erormed throughout the United States. In 993 Mr. Mosier s orchestra won the outstanding erorming grou award at a national estival in San Antonio Texas. During his tenure at Raytown South High School the orchestra s string section grew rom 3 to 35 members. Kirt Mosier is an active clinician and adjudicator throughout the midwest and southern regions o the United States. Mr. Mosier is also a comoser and has had works eatured at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. In 993 Mr. Mosier s comosition Baltic Dance won the National School Orchestra Association Comosition Contest. That same year Mr. Mosier was commissioned by the Missouri chater o ASTA to write the All-State Orchestra iece Revelation. In 995 Mr. Mosier was the Missouri state coordinator or the National High School Honors Orchestra which erormed at the 996 MENC National Conerence. Mr. Mosier has several ublished works or orchestra including Out O Adullam commissioned in 004 or the Missouri All-State Orchestra. His iece American Reel won the ASTA with NSOA 004 Merle J. Isaac Comosition Contest. Resonsible or iloting the innovative Entertainment Media Technology Center o Excellence or the Lee s Summit R-7 School District Kirt Mosier instructs students rom multile school districts how to roduce music or today s media market. In addition to his educational duties Mr. Mosier writes music or Eic Entertainment a subsidiary comany o Starlight Theatre in Kansas City. He is also the worshi director at Deerbrook Covenant Church in Lee s Summit. The Comosition I was commissioned to write a iece o music based on Washington Irving s masteriece The Legend o Sleey Hollow by Ron Polomchak the director o the Lake Zurich South Middle School Orchestra in Illinois. Every year Mr. Polomchak directs the ensemble in a sooky Halloween concert and Two Scenes From The Hollow was written to cature this sirit o ghoulish un. The irst movement Ichabod s Walk is to be layed as a strict tango. In the story Ichabod ancies himsel a ladies man. He likes to walk to their houses and enjoys being scared at the same time thus the tango o Ichabod s walk. The tango is a traditional Argentine dance between a man and a woman that has a sense o tension and romance. The movement starts with the low instruments in a minor key to signiy Ichabod s gangly eatures. Basses and celli need to ay close attention to their articulations in order to get the roer eel. Try to hold the temo back rather than allow it to all orward. The slides should be layed rather gregariously with secial attention to ending the note sharly. Hessian s Ride should be layed as ast as the orchestra can handle without sounding out o control. The students should lay on the string to make the movement rhythmically roulsive. Make sure the double down-bows are layed with a heavy accent they reresent sword slashes. Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 st Violin 5 8 nd Violin 5 String Bass 5 Viola Full Conductor Score Additional scores and arts are available. Learning Bank Each student art includes a Learning Bank eaturing historical inormation about Washington Irving and The Legend o Sleey Hollow. The Learning Bank is also rinted on age 3 o this score.

3 Learning Bank: The Legend o Sleey Hollow Washington Irving ( ) was one o America s irst native-born authors. Well-resected by critics o his day and still widely read today Irving was a major literary igure o the early 9 th century with dozens o ictions essays biograhies and histories to his credit. He also oered suort and encouragement to young American writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving s literary outut is rich in its scoe and stylistic diversity. His earliest book the extravagantly titled A History o New-York rom the Beginning o the World to the End o the Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker (809) is a satire on academic historical writing. The book was so oular that his stuy seudonym ( Knickerbocker ) became a nickname or all New Yorkers; it is also the linguistic origin o the NBA basketball team the New York Knicks. Desite the satirical nature o his irst work Irving was himsel an accomlished historian: biograhies o historical igures as well as studies o historical events make u the majority o his ublished writings. An aointment as the US Minister to Sain brought the author into close contact with Sanish culture and history an exerience that resulted in a biograhy o Christoher Columbus and a history o the city o Granada. He also chronicled the exloration o the American West. Although he was a roliic historical writer Irving is not remembered today or his histories. His most amous and enduring work is the essay and short story collection entitled The Sketchbook o Georey Crayon ublished serially in This collection includes two o Irving s most well-loved stories Ri Van Winkle and The Legend o Sleey Hollow. In addition to his ublished writings Washington Irving s inluence on American culture can be seen in two coinages that still enjoy oular usage: Gotham (a nickname or New York City used in the Batman comic book series) and the almighty dollar (an exression that connotes an obsession with money and material ossessions). The Story: The Legend o Sleey Hollow is set at the end o the 8 th century in a small Dutch settlement in New York. The rotagonist Ichabod Crane is a nervous and lanky schoolteacher who is trying to woo a wealthy armer s daughter to marry him. Returning home one cold autumn night Ichabod becomes rightened by the rustling noises and strange shaes in the dark orest. Suddenly his deeest ears become reality when the inamous headless horseman aears his head straed to his saddle. The horseman is rumored to be the ghost o a Hessian trooer slain in the Revolutionary War; every night he returns to search or his missing head. ( Hessians were German mercenary soldiers hired by England to ight in the American Revolution.) The headless horseman chases the terriied man through the woods until he reaches a bridge that he cannot cross. As a arting gesture the ghostly horseman throws his head knocking the haless schoolteacher o his horse. (In the morning it is revealed that the head was actually a umkin.) Ichabod Crane disaears rom the town orever and nobody really knows whether he led in ear or ell rey to the headless horseman. 3 SO64

4 4 Full Conductor Score Arox. time 6:0 Violins Viola String Bass Strict Tango (q = 00) I. Ichabod s Walk What earul shaes and shadows beset his ath amidst the dim and ghastly glare o a snowy night! With what wistul look did he eye every trembling ray o light streaming across the waste ields rom some distant window! How oten was he aalled by some shrub covered with snow which like a sheeted sectre beset his very ath! How oten did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound o his own stes on the rosty crust beneath his eet; and dread to look over his shoulder lest he should behold some uncouth being traming close behind him! and how oten was he thrown into comlete dismay by some rushing blast howling among the trees in the idea that it was the Galloing Hessian on one o his nightly scourings! m 7 m Commissioned by the Lake Zurich Middle School South Orchestras Lake Zurich IL Fall o 007. Ron Polomchak Director. Two Scenes From The Hollow m Kirt Mosier SO Neil A. Kjos Music Comany 438 Jutland Drive San Diego Caliornia 97. International coyright secured. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. WARNING! The contents o this ublication are rotected by coyright law. To coy or reroduce them by any method is an inringement o the coyright law. Anyone who reroduces coyrighted matter is subject to substantial enalties and assessments or each inringement.

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9 II. Hessian s Ride The dominant sirit however that haunts this enchanted region and seems to be commander-in-chie o all the owers o the air is the aarition o a igure on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost o a Hessian trooer... 9 Violins Viola String Bass Vivace (h = 0) arco arco cresc. m cresc. arco m 9 arco m 0 arco m m m m m SO64

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