Friday, June 21, 2019

Score preparation: first pass




I uploaded a 5 minute video to YouTube called “The Leprechaun’s Dance”  to demonstrate a first
pass with score preparation. In 1916 Percy Alldridge Granger published the suite of piano
compositions based on melodies from Charles Villiers Stanford and Irish folk music. I arranged
the Leprechaun’s Dance for concert band in 2018.


The video calls attention to score elements relevant for an interpretation by performers. These
elements include breath phrasing awareness, note lengths/connectedness, articulation patterns,
predictability, role of phrases in overall form, percussion relations, echo and tromping effects,
staccato and semi-staccato sections, accompaniment roles, articulation contrasts, fermata
approaches, accent anomalies, phrase connections, pacing and release of ritard, and ending.

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