BEGINNING BAND SERIES SAMPLE. Emily (The Ghost) By Anne McGinty INSTRUMENTATION

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1 Q889 Conductor $6.00 Conductor BEGINNING BAND SERIES Emily (The Ghost) By Anne McGinty INSTRUMENTATION - Conductor 8 - lute - Oboe 6 - st Bb Clarinet 6 - nd Bb Clarinet - Bb Bass Clarinet* 5 - Eb Alto Saxohone 3 - Bb Tenor Saxohone - Eb Baritone Saxohone* 5 - st Bb Cornet/Trumet - nd Bb Cornet/Trumet - Horn 7 - Trombone/Baritone B.C/Bassoon* 3 - Baritone T.C.* - Tuba* - - Percussion (Heavy chain, Tamb., Trgl.,,, W. Chimes) * These instruments lay the same otional art either the uer or loer octave o a bass line ritten in octaves. One or more ill enhance the sound, but are not required. Additional scores and arts are available.

2 About The Music: EMILY (The Ghost) is an original comosition based on a aranormal sirit that is resonsible or mysterious and noisy disturbances. Emily reveals her resence by moving and mislacing obects, making loud noises, interering ith electronic equiment, and turning lights and other electrical aliances on and o at random. She is a sirit ho enoys the conveniences o the st century and has chosen to visit you and your beginning concert band. Droing a heavy chain onto the loor should scare your audience and that is hat it is meant to do! I ossible, kee the chain hidden rom sight so that hen it dros it ill truly be a loud and noisy disturbance, announcing Emily s resence. The lutes reresent Emily as other sections in the band randomly click their instrument s keys or unscreed valves or blo air through the instruments ithout buzzing to make a hooshing sound. These extramusical sounds hel reveal Emily s various antics as the lutes continue her laintive melody, later oined by alto saxohone and then the otional bass line in octaves. The dynamics in this iece add to the mysterious doings o Emily. The really loud unctuation by the bass drum should be layed as dryly as ossible so there is no ring to the sound. Exeriment ith mallets to ind the one that orks best or you, reerably a hard mallet. The chromaticism reresents her eeriness and is also an excellent chance or your young layers to ork on the chromatic scale. Check to make sure the ingerings are all correct. The glissandos in the bell art should be very raid and scary. A brass mallet is reerred. The ending reresents Emily s release rom this orld into the sirit orld here she belongs. The cornets/trumets add oen iths (C G), the clarinets add the ninth (D) and the descending assage in the lutes, otional oboe and alto saxohone leads to the maor third, E natural. The ind chimes should be layed ith a ast see rom lo to high and alloed to ring. The inal to glissandos by the bells allo Emily s sirit to leave our orld. or added drama, you might ant to have certain lights go on and o during the erormance o this iece. I that is not ractical based on your erormance venue, you might ant to add lights onstage that go on and o at random, assuming the audience is unable to see anyone actually turning them on and o. Is Emily real Only i you believe in ghosts. ANNE McGINTY is a critically acclaimed comoser/arranger o music or concert band, rom the beginning level to the most advanced. Her intriguing instrumental colors and textures, combined ith her masterul comositional skills, set her aart as a unique artist in the ield o educational music or concert band. More inormation can be ound at queenood.com Q889

3 QUEENWOOD/KJOS BEGINNING BAND SERIES Conductor Duration :50 lute Oboe B Clarinets Alto Saxohone Cornets/ Trumets Horns (Tenor Sax.) Lo Brass Woodinds Percussion Heavy chain, Tamb., Trgl.,,, W. Chimes l. Tts. Horn Lo Brs. Ws. b b b b b b b b b b b b b Eerily ( q = 67) lutes only Dro heavy chain on the loor! Tamb. 6. n æ EMILY (The Ghost) 7 Randomly click keys. Do not blo through instrument. Unscre valves and randomly click. Do not blo through instrument. 3 n b Trgl. 8 # n. n Randomly click keys. Do not blo through instrument. Randomly click keys. Do not blo through instrument.. æ 9 By ANNE McGINTY b n Blo air through instrument ithout buzzing. Blo air through instrument ithout buzzing. 5 n # æ 008 Queenood/Kos, 38 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 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. 0 Q889

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