1st Semester Band Final - 2016-2017

Make a copy for your group of the FINAL EXAM WORKSHEET. Pay attention that there are 5 pages you will be competing!

You will be selecting repertoire and designing a program for two concerts.

I. Repertoire Selection

1. Use Form A to develop a list of criteria that your group will be using for repertoire selection.
   Examples: Rhythmic Challenge, Ensemble Skills, Fun Factor
2. Using your list of criteria, select a varied repertoire to perform for each of the two concerts from the table of songs below.
3. Provide a justification (one paragraph) on Form B1 and Form B2 for why you selected the piece of music and why you placed it where you did in the performance order for each of the two concerts.
   Example: “Based on our criteria… we selected this piece… and we put it last on the concert because…”

Varsity Band

Song of Earth, Water, Fire and Sky - Robert W Smith
Aquarium - de Meij
Different Voices - Rick Kirby
Villages - Michael Sweeney
Paper Cut - Alex Shapiro
Old Churches - Michael Colgrass
Northland Pines - Michael Sweeney
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens
Colonel Bogey March - Alford

Symphonic Band

Third Suite - Robert Jager
The View from the Mountaintop - Maher
Vesuvius - Frank Ticheli
Mother Earth Fanfare - Maslanka
Liquid Compass - Alex Shapiro
Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral - Wagner
Second Suite in F - Holst
Variations on a Korean Folk Song - Chance
Tempered Steel - C.R. Young
Washington Post March - Sousa

II. Concert Program

1. Now that you have selected repertoire for your two concerts, you are going to design a fictional concert program for each fictional concert.
   
2. CHECKLIST: Your program should include the following information:
   
   1. Date, Time, and Location
      
   2. Name of School, Bands, Directors
      
   3. Program Order
      
   4. Titles of pieces and names of composers
      
   5. List of performers names by section
      
   6. Thank Yous
      
   7. Other optional “extras” as you would decide to include
      
3. You can submit your program two ways:
   
   1. Electronically as a PDF (must be a PDF)
      
   2. Paper copy (print from the library)
      

You may model your program after Chippewa Falls High School or you can create a fictional school.

Innapropriate names or content will result in an automatic F and referral to administration.

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