Arrangement: Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 4th Movement (for Instruments)
1Every year, members of the community combine with the students of my alma mater, MSSU (Missouri Southern State University) to form the Southern Symphonic Chorus, and alongside the Southern Symphony Orchestra, we perform beautiful orchestral works from Beethoven's 9th to Orff's Carmina Burana, and everything in between or of a similar nature. Performing these great masterworks does a great service to my hometown of Joplin, MO, in that it brings class to what some folks claim would otherwise be a classless town. (I'm not so sure about that, but that's what the people have said so in the past about it.)
In 2018, the masterwork was Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and the instrumental rehearsal track I've done here is just the fourth movement. This was a bit daunting to do because MuseScore kept crashing on me, but my policy is that if I've sang it, I'll do a track like this of it. I doubled up on the instruments, however, because in each pair, the top line represents the soloist, while the bottom line represents the chorus. However, this was written with both parts, so I modified accordingly.
Using my usual system, this is for:
2 alto saxophones (top line solo; bottom line chorus, with soprano on top, and alto on bottom)
2 tenor saxophones (top line solo; bottom line is playing the same as alto but one octave lower)
2 baritone saxophones (top line solo; bottom line chorus, with tenor on top and bass on bottom)
2 glockenspiels (top line solo, bottom line is playing same as baritone sax but in treble clef)
2 vibraphones (playing same thing as baritone saxophone but in treble clef)
Marimba and piano (both playing accompaniment)
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music is public domain
This is my longest score to date.
I normally put all my scores in concert pitch, because I don't know how to read music otherwise, but I forgot to do so here. If you're wondering why the key signatures don't match. that's why.