Mary Alice Rich Kjos String Orchestra Grade ½ Full Conductor Score SO7F $6.00 Call o the Neil A. Kjos Music Coany Publisher
The Cooser Award-winning cooser Mary Alice Rich began her musical training in 5th grade in the Fairmont Minnesota ublic schools under the direction o Don Peterson and Linda Thoson. She studied violin with Marilyn Bos through high school and attended the University o Illinois where she received her B.M. in Violin Perormance under Paul Rolland. She began her Master s degree under Mr. Rolland and served as his teaching assistant until his death in 978. Under Sergiu Luca Ms. Rich coleted her M.M. in Violin Perormance. She then layed in many roessional orchestras including the Tulsa Philharmonic the Ft. Worth Syhony and the Dallas Oera Orchestra. In addition she reelanced throughout the Dallas area taught at Texas A&M University at Commerce and maintained a rivate teaching studio. Currently she serves on the aculty o the Dallas Syhony-sonsored Young Strings Scholarshi Program or Arican-American and Hisanic students. Ms. Rich is a back-to-back st lace winner o the Texas Orchestra Directors Association Coosition Contest. In 000 she won with her string orchestra iece Prelude and in 00 she won with her ull orchestra coosition Overture ublished by Neil A. Kjos Music Coany. Ms. Rich has also been recognized by The Dallas Songwriters Association and ASCAP or her suerb coositions. She is a member o the Texas Music Educators Association Texas Orchestra Directors Association ASTA with NSOA where she received the 004 Citation or Leadershi and Merit and the Texas State Chater o ASTA with NSOA where she served or ive years as the String Solo Festival Chair. Ms. Rich currently resides in Texas with her husband Bruce Wittrig a violinist with the Dallas Syhony and their daughter Melanie. The Coosition I ve always had admiration or music rom around the world and in Call o the I drew insiration rom elements o Arican music. I also wanted to come u with something that string students who have studied or about a year would really enjoy laying. I hoe you and your students have un with this iece! Don t worry about what kind o drum you use: lease use whatever is accessible to you with or without sticks (tom-toms bongos congas timbales etc.). Arica is home to many dierent tyes o drums. One o them commonly called the djembe (ronounced JEM-bay) is said to be used or the urose o gathering everyone together. That s what I would like the drums to do in Call o the. I you are lucky enough to have access to a real Arican drum that would be wonderul but any available non-snare drum would work. You can also create your own drums or erormance! (See Suggested Activity below and the Learning Bank on age 3.) In the drum art the accentuation attern is notated as a divided line. Players with two drums can erorm the line as it is with high-low notes; layers with one drum can treat the lower notes as accents. You can have any number o drummers laying the ercussion art in concert: just make sure that the strings aren t drowned out! Tell your string students that they also get to lay the drums by taing their instruments gently in a rhythmic attern at m. 45. Enjoy! Suggested Activity The aim o Call o the is to create an oen communal music making exerience or the students. For this reason the drum art is very lexible and can be layed on any tye o drum. However it might be extra un or students to lay the drum art on instruments that they create or themselves! (See Learning Bank Water Drum or detailed instructions.) Making your own drums as a class activity could lead to some exciting ossibilities: Since only a limited number o student drummers are needed bring along extra homemade drums during Recruiting Concerts and invite otential new orchestra members rom the audience to lay the drums along with the orchestra using a sile 8 th note rhythmic attern. Tell the audience about your homemade drums and invite some o them to come u and lay these drums in the concert. Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 st Violin 5 String Bass 8 nd Violin 5 5 3 rd Violin (Viola T.C.) Piano (otional) 5 Viola Full Conductor Score 5 SO7 Additional scores and arts are available.
Learning Bank: Arican Talking Drum: One o the most unique drums in the world the West Arican talking drum does something ew instruments can do a layer can actually make it talk! Here s how it works: talking drums are held under the arm and when the layer squeezes the leather cords that run down the length o the hourglass-shaed body the itch changes. A skilled layer can control the itch o the drum to such an extent that it sounds just like language. By imitating the stresses syllable lengths and tones o Arican languages the talking drum can communicate seciic messages over great distances in the dense orest. When Euroeans irst exlored the coastal regions o West Arica the drums were used to sread the word o their arrival inland. The range o an ordinary talking drum is extraordinary: during the day the sound o a drum can travel 3 4 miles; at night it can be heard 0 5 miles away! You can think o the talking drum as a very early version o the telehone. Djembe: The West Arican djembe is erhas the best known o all Arican ercussion instruments. The djembe is a large goblet shaed drum with a hardwood body and a head made o goat or anteloe skin. Played with the hands drummers use three rimary techniques: tone (go) sla (a) and bass (gun). A true master can eloy many more techniques to create an astonishing variety o sounds. While they sound great solo drummers oten gather to lay in grous and djembe ensembles orm the accoaniment to many traditional West Arican dance orms. It is the social ower o the instrument that has made it oular all over the globe most major international cities today have ublic drum circles and the djembe lays a leading role in such gatherings. It makes sense that the word djembe means everyone gather together among the Bamanaka eole o Mali: this owerul Arican drum has united the world in rhythm! Water Drum: Common in the savanna regions o West Arica water drums rely on the secial sound-conducting roerties o water. Tyically drummers strike small loating vessels that sit within larger water-illed bowls to roduce a gentle rich sound. Using water in a drum might sound colex but the rincile is quite sile in act you can make a water drum at home! All you need is an ety metal can and a ew ieces o transarent acking tae. First remove the to o the can and ill it ¼ to ½ ull o water; stretch a ew ieces o acking tae tightly across the mouth o the can overlaing each iece slightly; inally ress the corners o the tae stris down astening the drum head tightly to the can. Now use a stick to lay your new water drum! Talking Drum 3 Djembe SO7
4 Full Conductor Score Arox. time :5 * Violins Viola** String Bass Piano (otional) Allegro (q = 6-6) Allegro (q = 6-6) Allegro (q = 6-6) Call o the or String Orchestra and 3 (A Teo) 3 (A Teo) 3 (A Teo) Mary Alice Rich 4 5 L L non-legato non-legato *Suggestions: any non-snare drum including congas bongos tom-toms timbales etc. **A art or 3 rd Violin (Viola T.C.) is included. 009 Neil A. Kjos Music Coany 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. SO7
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