Peace
By Frank Ticheli
Manhattan Beach Publishing
Grade: 1
Year: 2015
Duration 3'07"
Key: Bb Major
Time: 4/4
Tempo: Quarter note = 104
Grade: 1
Year: 2015
Duration 3'07"
Key: Bb Major
Time: 4/4
Tempo: Quarter note = 104
Flute
Oboe Bassoon Bb Clarinet Bb Bass Clarinet Eb Alto Sax Bb Tenor Sax Eb Baritone Sax Trumpet |
F Horn
Trombone Baritone BC/TC TubaBass Drum Chimes Orchestra Bells Timpani Tom-toms Triangle |
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Suggestions For Small Band Instrumentation
This is a cleverly crafted full band piece for beginners but it also has a few challenges instrumentation wise. For example the first four measures (same issue in measure 46) contain a melody covered by flute and oboe with a harmony line in the clarinet. The clarinet is by itself on this line, so if you have no clarinets you could have it covered by trumpet. If you have no flute or oboe you would obviously need to transpose the part for clarinet or trumpet for those brief measures. My recommendation would be to have it played on clarinet to keep the feeling and timbre close to the original intent of the piece. Those first four measures have the bass line only in the Alto Sax but this could be easily fixed by transposing the part to tenor sax or trombone. Issues like this occur up to measure 20 when the full ensemble comes in and less voicing issues occur. Over all this is a great piece for small bands and beginning bands because it contains primarily only three part harmonies including the bass line and has two to four bar phrases that are simple and fun.
Program Notes
PEACE begins with the glow of a quiet, starlit evening, a pair of lightly scored lines mirroring each other amid the gentle tolling of bells. The music gently unfolds, floating between the keys of Eb and Bb Major like some wandering traveller. A second idea, growing from a repeated 8th-note motive, moves forward with more assuredness, but still clings to aspirations of peace and serenity.
Additional Notes-PEACE was composed for my long-time friend, Cindi Sobering and her Highland Park Middle School Band in Dallas, Texas. The piece is the result of her challenge to me to compose music that could be performed by her young band by the end of their first semester of study. The written ranges of all the instruments are contained within a single octave most parts range even less than an octave. Pitches comprise diatonic notes of Bb major plus one chromatic note, concert Ab. The rhythms are limited to whole-notes, half-notes, quarter-notes, and eighth-notes, the latter always repeated on a single pitch. there are not dotted notes of any kind, and articulations are not used with the exception of a few slurs.
Composer
Frank Ticheli's music has been described as being "optimistic and thoughtful" (Los Angeles Times), "lean and muscular" (New York Times), "brilliantly effective" (Miami Herald) and "powerful, deeply felt crafted with impressive flair and an ear for striking instrumental colors" (South Florida Sun-Sentinel). Ticheli (b. 1958) joined the faculty of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music in 1991, where he is Professor of Composition. Ticheli is well known for his works for concert band, many of which have become standards in the repertoire. In addition to composing, he has appeared as guest conductor of his music at Carnegie Hall, at many American universities and music festivals, and in cities throughout the world, including Schladming (Austria), Beijing and Shanghai, London and Manchester, Singapore, Rome, Sydney, and numerous cities in Japan. Frank Ticheli is the recipient of a 2012 "Arts and Letters Award" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, his third award from that prestigious organization. Frank Ticheli received his doctoral and masters degrees in composition from The University of Michigan. His works are published by Manhattan Beach, Southern, Hinshaw, and Encore Music, and are recorded on the labels of Albany, Chandos, Clarion, Equilibrium, Klavier, Koch International, Mark, Naxos, and Reference.
Information Collected From
http://www.manhattanbeachmusiconline.com/frank_ticheli/biolocal.html
http://www.manhattanbeachmusiconline.com/frank_ticheli/peace-virtual-score.html
Suggestions For Small Band Instrumentation
This is a cleverly crafted full band piece for beginners but it also has a few challenges instrumentation wise. For example the first four measures (same issue in measure 46) contain a melody covered by flute and oboe with a harmony line in the clarinet. The clarinet is by itself on this line, so if you have no clarinets you could have it covered by trumpet. If you have no flute or oboe you would obviously need to transpose the part for clarinet or trumpet for those brief measures. My recommendation would be to have it played on clarinet to keep the feeling and timbre close to the original intent of the piece. Those first four measures have the bass line only in the Alto Sax but this could be easily fixed by transposing the part to tenor sax or trombone. Issues like this occur up to measure 20 when the full ensemble comes in and less voicing issues occur. Over all this is a great piece for small bands and beginning bands because it contains primarily only three part harmonies including the bass line and has two to four bar phrases that are simple and fun.
Program Notes
PEACE begins with the glow of a quiet, starlit evening, a pair of lightly scored lines mirroring each other amid the gentle tolling of bells. The music gently unfolds, floating between the keys of Eb and Bb Major like some wandering traveller. A second idea, growing from a repeated 8th-note motive, moves forward with more assuredness, but still clings to aspirations of peace and serenity.
Additional Notes-PEACE was composed for my long-time friend, Cindi Sobering and her Highland Park Middle School Band in Dallas, Texas. The piece is the result of her challenge to me to compose music that could be performed by her young band by the end of their first semester of study. The written ranges of all the instruments are contained within a single octave most parts range even less than an octave. Pitches comprise diatonic notes of Bb major plus one chromatic note, concert Ab. The rhythms are limited to whole-notes, half-notes, quarter-notes, and eighth-notes, the latter always repeated on a single pitch. there are not dotted notes of any kind, and articulations are not used with the exception of a few slurs.
Composer
Frank Ticheli's music has been described as being "optimistic and thoughtful" (Los Angeles Times), "lean and muscular" (New York Times), "brilliantly effective" (Miami Herald) and "powerful, deeply felt crafted with impressive flair and an ear for striking instrumental colors" (South Florida Sun-Sentinel). Ticheli (b. 1958) joined the faculty of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music in 1991, where he is Professor of Composition. Ticheli is well known for his works for concert band, many of which have become standards in the repertoire. In addition to composing, he has appeared as guest conductor of his music at Carnegie Hall, at many American universities and music festivals, and in cities throughout the world, including Schladming (Austria), Beijing and Shanghai, London and Manchester, Singapore, Rome, Sydney, and numerous cities in Japan. Frank Ticheli is the recipient of a 2012 "Arts and Letters Award" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, his third award from that prestigious organization. Frank Ticheli received his doctoral and masters degrees in composition from The University of Michigan. His works are published by Manhattan Beach, Southern, Hinshaw, and Encore Music, and are recorded on the labels of Albany, Chandos, Clarion, Equilibrium, Klavier, Koch International, Mark, Naxos, and Reference.
Information Collected From
http://www.manhattanbeachmusiconline.com/frank_ticheli/biolocal.html
http://www.manhattanbeachmusiconline.com/frank_ticheli/peace-virtual-score.html