A Triumphal Entry Set Type:Score

A Triumphal Entry Set Type:ScoreYoung ensembles will indeed make a triumphal entry with this perfect concert opener. The piece begins with a sweeping, fanfare like theme soaring above a driving rhythmic accompaniment, only to intensify as the fanfare is echoed in the second violins. A Triumphal Entry is a great introduction to polyphonic textures, compound meters, and polyrhythms.

The race is on

The music perfectly captures the Scottish flavor

this is a captivating and breathtaking selection that you

and this setting will transport your students to Spain during the Classical Period

syncopated rhythms

Everyone at times has to face an ‘ordinary’ event where the courage it requires of them is actually really a lot and should be celebrated

melody lines in all parts

Be sure to keep the eighth notes and staccato quarter notes short and separated but encourage students to use plenty of bow and a more legato stroke in the slurred melodies

poignant arrangement by David Bobrowitz ends with a feeling of reverie

Performers and audience alike will connect to this sensitive emotion that we all experience at one time or another through life

In a fugue-like middle section

make their way through the texture