Instrumental/Choral Selections..

The King of Love My Shepard Is
**With moderate ranges and no real extreme rhythms or leaps, I would say this is a piece well suited for a 9-10 grade choir.
**Four-measure phrases that each end in a ritardando.
*This will make the students watch the director at the end of each phrase and for a majority of the song.
**When the tenor and basses come in they directly imitate the sopranos and altos from the beginning.
** The middle section where all fours voices come in, has a much freer tempo, so the students will really need to pay attention there as well.
**In the last section of this song, the tenors usually double the sopranos, and the altos are usually in sync with the bass.
**The Amen coda at the end gives the alto section a small melody and wraps the piece up in a series of IV-I progression.

Harvest Celebration
**This piece is definitely better suited for an advanced high school band, even an honor band
**There is a great deal of chromatics in the first and last sections, which can be addressed and worked through in warm-ups as well.
**The slower middle section focuses on the the piano melody with the rest of the band as accompaniment.
**The percussion section contains a variety of instruments that may not always be heard in concert band, and will keep percussionists busy, and t
**The last section contains a good amount of syncopation and dotted rhythms. There two rhythm patterns could also be practiced in warm-ups.
**The last section of this piece is really well written in that not one part gets all of the glory. Themes and focal points are interspersed between the parts.