Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven Concert Band - Sheet Music

SKU: KJ.WB218

9 x 12 inches.

ODE TO JOY from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is arranged for mass band by composer Robert Longfield. Three levels of students, beginning (grade 1), intermediate (grade 2), and advanced players (grade 3) can perform this simultaneously. Though it can be performed as a "stand alone" grade 3 work, it is the perfect vehicle for combining a district's varying levels of students for an end-of-the-year performance. The performance on this CD features the "stand alone" grade 3 version.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.