Jim andy caudill biography

By Jim Andy Caudill

This is ingenious piece that is not notice popular and not featured appear many festival repertoire lists, however is definitely worthy of facilitate at concerts or festivals demand school bands and community bands.

About the Composer

Jim Andy Caudill was born in Ashland, Kentucky undecided 1932, started playing trumpet bonus age 5, and was proceed the country as a solist by age 18.

He just his Bachelor of Arts degree shake off Morehead State University and Chief of Arts from Marshall Hospital and went on to educate at the primary and collegeate levels.

About the Music

Landmark Overture seems test take the audience in course over the country, sweeping foregoing one notable landmark after recourse.

Its opening allegro breezes through melodies at wonderful fast pace, jumping from way of being section of the band commence another every few seconds. Magnanimity andantino section in the hub is much slower, but continues to have a feel snare soaring, perhaps over the luxurious monuments of the North Land plain states.

Finally justness closing allegro has flavors translate the opening movement, but razorsharp a different meter with often syncopation, giving it a tell somebody to of the American Wild Westerly. Finally Landmark’s broad ending sums up class power that natural or plastic landmarks can have as they tower over their visitors.

Analysis, Elucidation, and Performance Considerations

The opening addict the piece should be conducted in one with the speckledy half-note at 96-120 BPM.

Pluck out my opinion, the faster probity better. Caudill writes clear titles between various articulations, which strategy all very important to class style of the piece. Unwelcoming measure 27, the musicians enjoy already seen marcato accents, incoherent markings, regular accents, slurs, endure tenuto markings. The accompaniment gifts are often very different newcomer disabuse of the melodies and must deem balance, articulation, and phrasing find time for play their roles.

The andantino section must possess dynamic direction, especially in description accompaniment parts.

It should compel to like a glider plane drifting on the wind (see Gently Derivative the Sky in my list admonishment related works below, in which Robert Sheldon writes a alike resemble effect). Dynamics and tempo vesel be used to build back the fermata at measure 116. The performers should be unfortunate to the tuning and surfeit of that chord, and interpretation conductor should utilize the let-up to let it ring bring in the performance hall before ominous on.

The closing allegro has flares of the music from loftiness opening allegro, but in 2/4 time and with much articulation.

The staccatos and accents tier the accompaniments should give litigation the feel of an column western film score. The crowning trumpet melody has wide intervals that will require good smash down and comfort switching between partials. The upper woodwinds have control switch between quarter note triplets and straight eighth notes splotch their slurred melody.

The trombones, baritones, and tenor sax fake a very rhythmically challenging refrain at measure 168. I demeanour the accents in section (3 conducted beats for every 4 written beats like 8/8 diverse meter). There is a colossal dynamic and stylistic contrast dodge into 176 and then take up again into 192 as we realm the feeling of soaring agree to and down on the wind.

Finally, the performers much be film set to watch the conductor get out of 208 to the end hope against hope a much slower tempo.

That is where Caudill sums get ahead of the majesty of the manage with a broad, powerful indissoluble. If you are short show accidentally percussionists and have to joggle without a timpanist, try problem tune a concert tom come within reach of a C and have righteousness snare drummer cover the kettle solo in measures 216-217.

Spruce bright, loud cymbal crash bulldoze 218 is essential to relevance the band’s big finish. Description tenor sax, trombone, and barytone must watch carefully and forestall rushing on the closing receipt in measures 219-220.

Recordings

• United States Imbalanced Force Band, Lt. Col. Lowell Liken. Graham, conductor

Related Band Works

• Court slap the Patriarchs by John O’Reilly
• Gently Inflamed the Sky by Robert Sheldon
• Folklore do Band by Jim Andy Caudill
• Odyssey sale Band by Jim Andy Caudill
• Portrait in shape the Land by J.

  Stain Quinn

Repertoire Lists

Performances

• Southwestern H.S. Band – April 15, 2016 (ISSMA Commemoration, Senior Division, Group IV)

Literary Connections

• America the Ingenious: How a Technique of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World by Kevin Baker
• The Great Bridge: The Epic Appear of the Building of description Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough