Kjos Music Apples - Boysen - Concert Band - Gr. 3

Author/Composer:

BOYSEN JR, ANDREW

Instrumentation:

CONCERT BAND

Grade/Level:

3.0

Model #:

WB499

Composer: Andrew Boysen Jr.
Format: Score and Parts
Instrumentation: Concert Band
Level: 3

These "apples" are a retirement gift for an energetic music teacher with a 30-year career split between two schools. Apples is minimalist in nature, using the number 15 as a generating force and structured using a process in which repeating layers enter and leave after playing their passage three times. Each of these layers is 5 measures long with 3 beats to the measure (15 beats per passage). The basic melodic cell for the piece begins with a harmonic 3rd moving to a harmonic 5th.
Duration: 3:00