ALBERTA BAND ASSOCIATION - 2009 SYLLABUS

GRADE ONE

Ritual Dance – Story

Majestica – Balmages

Overlords – O’Loughlin

Song for the Winter Moon – Cummings

Three Faces of Kilimanjaro – Smith

Morpheus - Smith

Ahrirang – Garafalo/Whaley

King’s Court - Huckeby

Starship Overture – Feldstein

Bartok Suite – Bartok/Clark

GRADE TWO

Marching Song – Holst/Moss

Newfoundland Folk Song – Duff

Westridge Overture - Barnes

Jana’s Dance - Gorham

Crystal Moon - Clark

Mini Suite - Gould

Prospect – LaPlante

Song of the Hebrides – Daehn

A Tallis Prelude – Akey

Overture on a Shaker Tune - Higgins

GRADE THREE

In the Forest of the King - LaPlante

Old Churches - Colgrass

Variation Overture - Williams

Prelude/Fugue Bb Major – Bach/Moehlmann

The Sleeping Place of the Stars - Ford

Gypsy Dance - Compello

Tricycle – Boysen

Three Scottish Vistas – Owens

At Morning’s First Light – Gillingham

St. Florian Chorale - Doss

GRADE FOUR

Sun Dance - Ticheli

Gathering of the Yeoman - Smith

Court Festival - Latham

Lux Aurumque – Whitacre

English Suite – Grundman

Aquarium – DeMeij

Three London Miniatures – Camphouse

Dreams and Proclamations – Barrett

O Magnum Mysterium – Lauridsen

A Canadian Folk Rhapsody - Coakley

GRADE FIVE

Irish Tune & Shepherd’s Hey - Grainger

Handel in the Strand – Grainger (choose either/or of the faster pieces, or all three as a set)

Toccata Marziale – Williams/Battisti

Suite of Old American Dances – Bennett (minimum requirement any three movements)

The Fisher Who Died in His Bed-Herberman

Procession of the Nobles – Korsakov/Leidzen

Havendance - Holsinger

First Suite in Eb - Holst

Prelude Siciliano and Rondo- Arnold/Paynter

Pageant - Persichetti

Incantation and Dance – Chance

GRADE SIX

Masquerade - Persichetti

Postcard - Ticheli

Heroes Lost and Fallen - Gillingham

Armenian Dances - Reed

Passacaglia-Homage on Bach - Nelson

A Movement for Rosa - Camphouse

Symphony #3 for Band - Giannini

New World Dances - Ellerby

Lincolnshire Posy – Grainger

Festive Overture – Shostakovich/Hunsberge

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