Band History
What year was the Buchholz Band Founded?
What is 1971?
The pitches F, Ab, Cb, and Eb create what quality of chord?
What is half-diminished?
List the standard instrumentation for a modern wind ensemble in score order.
What is
Piccolo
Flute 1 & 2
Oboe 1 & 2
Bassoon 1 & 2
Contrabassoon
Eb Clarinet
Bb Clarinet 1-3
Bass Clarinet
Contrabass Clarinet
Alto Sax 1 & 2
Tenor Sax
Bari Sax
Cornet 1-3, Trumpet 1 & 2
French Horn 1-4
Trombone 1-3
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion 1-6
This is typically done by underclassmen, but upperclassmen have started doing it. This question is almost exclusively asked at an inopportune time in the 30 seconds right before class starts.
What is "my instrument is broken can you fix it"?
What is "I lost my muisc?.
What is the name of the horn-shaped basket filled with fruits and vegetables that's commonly associated with Thanksgiving?
What is a cornucopia?
Who was the first Buchholz Band Director?
Who is Richard Frye?
The opening musical segment can best be defined as what texture?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UwpRlKV040&list=RD_UwpRlKV040&start_radio=1
What is Homophony?
Identify the piece based on the program note from the composer:
For a long time I have had the idea of writing a composition fit for high school purposes, and this was the result. In the bands, orchestras, and choirs of American high schools, colleges and universities where the youth of the nation be found, it is obvious that they need music of their time, not too difficult to perform, but nevertheless keeping the characteristic idiom of the composer.
The five parts of this suite are named after French Provinces, the very ones in which the American and Allied armies fought together with the French underground of the liberation of my country: Normandy, Brittany, Ile-de-France (of which Paris is the center), Alsace-Lorraine, and Provence (my birthplace).
I used some folk tunes of these provinces. I wanted the young American to hear the popular melodies of those parts of France where their fathers and brothers fought to defeat the German invaders, who in less than seventy years have brought war, destruction, cruelty, torture, and murder three times to the peaceful and democratic people of France.
What is Suite Francaise by Darius Milhaud?
This is done by a mix of underclassmen and upperclassmen.
It involves being in the choir room before class, during class, and after class.
What is using Mr. Couch's office as a storage room for personal belongings and telling Mr. Couch all the problems you are afraid to tell Mr. Graben?
What do you call the process of pouring or squeezing juices over a turkey while it's cooking to help keep it moist?
What is Basting?
What year was the Buchholz Band Program selected as the nation's recipient of the John Phillip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Flag of Honor?
What is 2002?
What compositional technique is most used in the following excerpt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1M_jEHJtrE&list=RDE1M_jEHJtrE&start_radio=1
What is counterpoint?
This work occupies a legendary position in the wind band repertory and can be seen, in retrospect, as one of the earliest examples of the modern wind band instrumentation still frequently performed today. Its influence is so significant that several composers have made quotation or allusion to it as a source of inspiration to their own works.
2019 marks the 110th anniversary of this work, now considered one of the masterworks and cornerstones of the band literature. Although completed in 1909, it didn't receive its official premiere until 11 years later on June 23rd, 1920, by an ensemble of 165 musicians at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall.
During this time period there was no standardized instrumentation among the hundreds of military bands of the day, and as a result no significant literature had been previously written for the band medium; most bands up to then performed arrangements of popular orchestral pieces. In order to ensure the work would be accessible to as many bands as possible, the composer ingeniously scored the work so that it could be played by a minimum of 19 musicians, with 16 additional parts that could be added or removed without compromising the integrity of the work.
What is First Suite in Eb by Gustav Holst?
This is exclusively done by the wind symphony at the end of class.
Leaving out all the stands and chairs.
According to AAA, what was the most popular Thanksgiving travel destination in 2024?
What is Orlando, Florida?
What year did the Golden Regiment March in the Macy's Day Parade?
What is 2000?
This work by Paul Hindemith was composed in 1942 during his stay in the United States.
The piece, which comprises all 12 major or minor keys, starts with a three-part Praeludium in C resembling Johann Sebastian Bach's toccatas, and ends with a Postludium which is an exact retrograde inversion of the Praeludium.
This work can be can be thought of as the most direct application of Hindemith's theory that the twelve tones of the equally tempered scale all relate to a single one of them (called a tonic or keynote). The affinity of each note with the keynote is directly related to its position on the harmonic scale.
What is Ludus Tonalis?
Identify the following piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKFnUk51Nig&list=RDPKFnUk51Nig&start_radio=1
...And the Mountains Rising Nowhere
by Joseph Schwantner
This is primarily done by upperclassmen.
It is a poor use of judgment/interpretation.
What is believing that sectional instructors or adjunct staff know more about band than the band directors and nationally recognized clinicians?
What is the proper name for a Pilgrim hat?
What is a capotain?
Two-Part Question and daily double:
1. What is the award/achievement, given by the Florida Bandmasters Association, that has only been earned by Buchholz High and one other FL High School?
2. What year did Buchholz earn this award?
What is a Triple Kraushaar Award?
What is 2009?
This form of music theory is a loose collection of ideas present in the writings of music theorists such as David Lewin, Brian Hyer, Richard Cohn, and Henry Klumpenhouwer. What binds these ideas is a central commitment to relating harmonies directly to each other, without necessary reference to a tonic.
Related terms include:
Relative, Parallel, Leading-tone exchange, Slide, Nebenverwandt, and Hexpole
What is Neo-Riemannian theory?
This piece is an hour-long 1918 theatrical work to be "read, played and danced (lue, jouée et dansée)" by three actors, one or more dancers, and a septet of instruments.
It is scored for clarinet, bassoon, cornet (often played on trumpet), trombone, percussion, violin and double bass.
Its music is by Igor Stravinsky, its libretto, in French, by Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz; the two men conceived it together, their basis being the Russian tale "The Runaway Soldier and the Devil" in the collection of Alexander Afanasyev.
What is L'Histoire du soldat (A Soldier's Tale) ?
This is primarily done by unorganized upperclassmen.
It is the #1 thing Mr. Graben enjoys the most hearing.
What is "I can't go to rehearsal today because I just found out that I didn't plan my schedule accordingly."?
Snoopy first made his appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in what year?
Answer: 1968