AFS #05 – The Builders

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The fifth volume in the famous American Frontier Suite series brings music honoring the men who built a nation, from the miners to the railroad workers to the canal diggers – a fun medley for everyone!

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Volume Five in this series features music honoring the men who built a nation. The suite includes five such tunes popular in the middle 1800s. It includes these five tunes:

John Henry — This suite begins with a tremendously fun jazz-style trumpet solo – you can tell your trumpet player to really cut loose on this one! Various sections share in passing the melody around later in this tune, and it winds up with an easy flute solo that’s bound to delight the player and the audience.
Paddy Works On The Railway — This is one of those tunes that everyone has heard before, but very few can put their finger on the name when called upon to do so. The tune is In 6/8 and a minor key. It will get everyone involved in the music..
I’ve Been Working On The Railroad — This starts at a moderately ponderous tempo, with sledge-hammer spike driving sound effects, and each section of the tune gets a bit faster until you’re really flying by the end of this section.
The Erie Canal — This tune is total jazz! An observer in the back of the concert hall during the premiere said every head in the audience was bobbing to the music. One of the listeners told me she felt like standing up and doing a can-can-style high kick to this one.
Casey Jones — Very much a “train” tune, from the driving of the wheels to the scream of the steam whistle, just like Casey Jones’ final ride, the tune gets more and more frantic until it finally winds up in a tremendous train crash that will challenge your percussion section’s ingenuity and provide more fun for both players and audience than they’ve ever had at a music concert before.

At the premiere of this medley we observed for the very first time the performance of a tune interrupted in the middle by the audience — for laughter and applause.

This piece has been carefully scored to be a challenging Grade 3, and would be another ideal piece for state contest lists.

It will also make an ideal easy-to-master showcase piece for your next concert.

Watch the score now as you listen to the premiere performance of this work:

We are currently refining the downloadable file, which means we will need to email this file to you after your purchase. But know the music IS available. If you have any questions, or you believe your purchase is late, please use our CONTACT US page. Thanks!

This work will make an ideal easy-to-master showcase piece for your next concert.

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Transpositions Available for Each Part in the ENSEMBLE CONCERT BOOKS SERIES

This chart describes each transposition available for each voice in the Ensemble Concert Books Series, along with a list of most of the instruments that can be appropriate for playing that part. This will give you a good idea of which books to order, based on which instruments you have. The preferred instruments for each part are highlighted in red.

SOPRANO 1:

In C. This part includes both the high octave, suitable for flute, piccolo, and violin, and the low octave, suitable for oboe or brass instruments in C.
In Bb. This part is suitable for trumpets, (soprano) clarinets, and soprano saxophones.
In Eb. This part is suitable for and voiced for the Eb soprano clarinet. It can also be played by an Eb sopranino saxophone. If necessary, it can be played by an alto saxophone, but it will not be in the right register, and it would be good if the alto sax player could play it an octave above the written notes.
In F. This part will be available only on request. Please allow six weeks for us to produce it. It is available in the event that a French horn or F trumpet is the only instrument you have to play this voice, and it will require a horn player with a good high range to play it.

SOPRANO 2:

In C. This part is voiced for oboe and violin. It is possible for a flute to play it as well, but this part will frequently be in the lower range for a flute and therefore might lose some power.
In Bb. This is the part to get for (soprano) clarinets, trumpets, and soprano saxophones.
In Eb. This part is voiced for alto saxophones and alto clarinets. It can also be played by an Eb soprano clarinet, but should be played an octave below the written notes.
In F. For French Horns.
In Alto Clef. For violas. This part is only available on request. Please allow six weeks for production.

ALTO:

In C. For violin, viola, or any other C-pitched instrument playing treble clef n the alto range.
In Bb. For soprano clarinets. It can also be played by a trumpet, as it has higher-octave cue notes for those notes that go below the range of a trumpet. It can also be played by tenor saxophones and treble clef baritone horn, but that player should play an octave above the written notes.
In Eb. For alto saxophones, and alto clarinets.
In F. For French Horns.
In Alto Clef. For violas, and those rare (and strange) trombone players who prefer to read alto clef. This part is only available on request. Please allow six weeks to produce it.
In Bass Clef. For trombones and baritone B.C. players. This part will usually be in the higher end of the range of these players, but not uncomfortably so.

TENOR:

In Bb. This is for tenor saxophones and baritone horns who play treble clef.
In Eb. This can be played by alto saxophones, although it will be somewhat low in their register.
In F. For French Horns. This is not the preferred instrument for this part, but they CAN play it.
In Tenor Clef. For violas, and others who prefer tenor clef. This part is only available on request. Please allow six weeks to produce it.
In Bass Clef. For trombones, baritone horns, and cellos. It can also be played by bassoons when needed.

BASS:

In Bb. For Bass clarinet and contra-bass clarinet. Also for Bass Saxophone and brass band type tuba/bass players who read Bb treble clef bass parts.
In Eb. For baritone saxophones and Eb Contra-alto Clarinets.
In F. For experienced horn players only. This part is only available on request. Please allow six weeks to produce it.
In Bass Clef - High. For string bass players.
In Bass Clef - Low - for tubas and bassoons.

MISCELLANEOUS PARTS:

Piano. If you cannot fill in all five other parts, adding a piano player may give you all the extra harmony notes you need.
Drum Set. While not required, adding a drum set to your performances, especially when you are using ten or more players, will definitely enhance the presentation.

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