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Small Band Programs: Strategies for Success
Phillip M. Hash, Ed.D.
Illinois State University
Website: pmhmusic.weebly.com
Email: [email protected]
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Clinic
• Personal experience
• Working w/ small bands
– Rural
– Private
– Urban
• Defining “Small”
• Maximizing what we have vs. making it bigger?
Shabbona HS
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Five Basic Principles
1. Wide range of abilities
2. Everyone contributes
3. Cover all parts
4. Solutions not ideal - OK
5. Must create musical success today!
• “Will _____ create a more musical experience for students?”
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Instruments
• Insts. in good repair• Mouthpieces & Reeds• Beginning Band
Priorities– Woodwind
• Double Reeds?
– Brass• Horns?
• Use similar equipment• Leave out piccolo?• See handout for
recommendations
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Non-Traditional Instrumentation
• EEb Ctra. Clarinet• EEb Tuba • Valve Trombone• F or Eb Alto Horn
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Non-Standard Instrumentation
• Marching brass
• Drum set in concert band
• Electric keyboard
• Electric bass
• “Will this strategy…?”
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Seating
• Acoustical cup
• Same parts together
• Stack large sections
• Directional brass
• Bass voices centered together
• Perc. centered
• Experiment
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Fundamentals
• More apparent in small bands
– Tone
– Intonation
– Balance
– Blend
Waterloo, Wisconsin, Juvenile Band
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Chorales
• All ensemble basics
• Musical context
• Chorale Characteristics
– Simple, Homophonic
– Easy keys and ranges
– Consistent SATB scoring
– Soft mallets & timpani only
• 3 & 4 part chorales in handout
• Unisons & Octaves – 1 part at a time
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Altering Parts
• Rewriting or redistributing parts– Missing instruments
– Strengthen weak sections
– Reduce upper/increase lower parts
– Simplify for an individual
• Goals when altering parts– Maintain composer’s original intent
– Leave all parts intact
• Examples– Folk Song Suite (I) Vaughn Williams
– Air and March Purcell/Gordon
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Transcriptions
• Transcriptions vs. arrangement
• Check original score– International Music Score Library
Project (http://imslp.org/)
• Renaissance, Baroque, Classical– Intended for small groups
– Often w/ flexible instrumentation
• Percussion requirements
• Classical Minuets & Marches
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Old Band Music
• PDF Band Music Library
• Intended for small band
• Marches of Fillmore (H. Bennett) & K. L. King
• Redistributing Parts– Omit Piccolo
– Omit Clar. 1 – Use cornet pts.
– Trombone T.C. to Tenor Sax
– Bass Saxophone
– T. C. Bass/Trombone 3
– Eb alto horn to alto sax
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Flexible Repertoire
• Ken Harris Marches
– Barnhouse
• European Arrangements
• Flex-Band Series
– Hal Leonard
• Build a Band Series
– Barnhouse
• American Instrumental Ensemble Series
– Salvation Army
• Various Church instrumental series
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Jazz Band Music
• Why not a concert/jazz band?
• Belwin Jazz Ensemble Series– Grades 1-4
– Works w/ reduced inst.
– Alt. pts. for flute, clar., horn, bar. T.C., tuba (bass line)
• Essential Elements Jazz– Grade 2
– Alt. pts.
• Little Big Band Series– Hal Leonard
– 3 sax, 1 tr., 1 tbone, rhythm
– Extra pts. alto, ten., tbone
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Retention
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Why Students QuitSee Gemeinhardt Studies
Reason to Dropout
• Conflicting Interests
• Conflicting Schedules
• Lack of Progress
• Bored
• Low Recognition
• Peer Pressure
Reasons to Stay
• Social benefits
• Enjoy Performing
• Musical enjoyment
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Are Students Getting What They Need in the Band?
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Performance & Scheduling Alternatives
• Non-Rated Festivals
• “Comments Only”
• Guest Conductor or University Visit
• State Capitol
• Combined
– Parades
– Pep Band
– Concerts
• Outside players
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Thank You!