grade level: 4 (medium difficult) allegro animato

GRADE LEVEL: 4 (MEDIUM DIFFICULT)

Please note: Our band and orchestra music is now being collated by an automatic high-speed system. The enclosed parts are now sorted by page count, rather than score order.

Instrumentation

1� ConductorScore 10� Flute(Piccolo) 1� 1stOboe 1� 2ndOboe 2� Bassoon 4� 1stBClarinet 4� 2ndBClarinet 4� 3rdBClarinet 2� EAltoClarinet

(EContrabassClarinet)

2� BBassClarinet(BBContrabassClarinet)

2� 1stEAltoSaxophone 2� 2ndEAltoSaxophone 2� BTenorSaxophone 1� EBaritoneSaxophone 2� 1stFHorn

2� 2ndFHorn 2� 3rdFHorn 3� 1stBCornet 3� 2ndBCornet 3� 3rdBCornet 2� 1stTrombone 2� 2ndTrombone 2� 3rdTrombone 2� BaritoneT.C. 2� BaritoneB.C. 4� Tuba 1� Mallets

(Xylophone)

3� Percussion(SnareDrum,BassDrum,CrashCymbals,Sus.Cymbal)

1� Timpani

T heformofAllegro AnimatoisavariationoftheRondoandconsistsofamaintheme,twosubordinate themesandcoda�ABACABcoda.Theworkbeginswitha statementof themain theme, which is only eight measures in length. The first subordinate theme, at

measure 9 , ismore lyric in styleand is followedbya transition (with fragmentsof themaintheme)leadingbacktoanotherstatementofthemainideaatmeasure27.Thetemposlowsforamorelengthysecondsubordinatethemeatmeasure37whichbuildsandslowstowarditsclimaxatmeasure65.Anothertransitionleadstoathirdstatementofthemainthemeatmeasure83.Thisisagainfollowedbyastatementofthefirstsubordinatethemeatmeasure93andafinalcodaatmeasure105.Thematicrepetitionisseldomexactandisvariedinharmoniccontent,instrumentalcolorandcontrapuntaltechniques.

ALLEGRO ANIMATO

By Frank Erickson

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