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Kjos String OrchestraGrade 3

Full Conductor ScoreSO263F

$6.00Johannes BrahmsDeborah Baker Monday, Arranger

Allegro GiocosoAllegro Giocosofrom Symphony No. 4, Op. 98

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The ArrangerDeborah Baker Monday currently teaches in the Logan City School District

Orchestra Program in Logan, Utah. She is a cello/bass specialist who works with 4ththrough 8th grade students in several schools. Ms. Monday received her B.M.E.from Florida State University with an emphasis in strings and a M.M. incomposition from the University of Alabama. She began working on a D.M.A. atLouisiana State University in Baton Rouge while teaching string classes at the 4ththrough 12th grade levels.

Ms. Monday is an active bass performer and private teacher. She has served asan adjunct bass instructor at Utah State University for several years, has been on thefaculty of the Utah ASTA with NSOA Bass Fest for three years, and has served as aclinician at the Midwest Clinic, ASTA with NSOA National Conference, andvarious state music educators conventions throughout the country. In 1999, she wasnamed the Utah ASTA with NSOA Elementary Teacher of the Year and she also

received the award for “Superior Accomplishment” at the 2003 Utah Music Educators Association Conferenceacknowledging her exceptional contributions to educational music for young string players. Ms. Monday was declaredwinner of the 2006 Utah ASTA Composition Competition for her composition Chant-Formations.

Ms. Monday has many publications to her credit, including three collections coauthored with Janice L.McAllister, Strings Extraordinaire!, Holidays Extraordinaire!, and More Strings Extraordinaire! She is also coauthor(with Robert S. Frost) of Artistry in Ensembles.

Instrumentation List (Set C)8 – 1st Violin8 – 2nd Violin5 – Viola 5 – Cello5 – String Bass1 – Piano (for rehearsal only)1 – Full Conductor Score

Additional scores and parts are available.

Learning BankEach student part includes a Learning Bank featuring information about Johannes Brahms and his

Symphony No 4. The Learning Bank is also printed on page 3 of this score.

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Learning Bank: Johannes Brahms Born in 1833 to a musical family in Hamburg, Germany, Johannes Brahms

showed immediate promise as a pianist. By the time he was a teenager, he performedprofessionally and composed small works for the piano. In addition to his interests inmusic, the young Brahms was an avid reader, particularly of folklore, a passion thatwould influence his music later in life.

At the age of twenty, Brahms had the good fortune to meet and befriend therespected composer Robert Schumann. Schumann, impressed with the young man’smusic, wrote and published a laudatory and highly influential essay about Brahms’sartistic talent, an event that helped to advance his career considerably. Brahms was alsoa loyal friend to Schumann, assisting and comforting his wife Clara when her husbandsuffered a nervous breakdown and suicide attempt. Clara Schumann remained one ofBrahms’s closest friends until her death fifty years later.

The music of Brahms’s maturity reflects a mastery of diverse styles, from chamber music to full orchestra, choralmusic to Hungarian and Austrian-inspired folk and dance tunes. Not only did Brahms’s music combine differentstyles, however; it also linked together different historical perspectives of music. During his time, Brahms was a verycontroversial composer: some people believed his music to be conservative and old-fashioned, while others thoughtthat Brahms created “the music of the future.” Indeed, Brahms was both a traditionalist and a revolutionary. Hishighly organized synthesis of different musical styles and compositional approaches is an important characteristic ofhis compositions, including the Symphony No. 4 of 1886. Many musicians and scholars consider this symphony tobe the crowning achievement of his orchestral art. Like many of his other late compositions, the Symphony No. 4brings together contrasting musical influences to create a work that is both progressive and traditional while at thesame time remaining a deeply personal expression.

The third movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, Allegro Giocoso, is full of humor and driving energy. Throughhis imaginative orchestration and thematic development, Brahms created a mood of witty contrasts, with quicklyalternating themes, stark dynamic juxtapositions, and rhythmic displacement. The movement should be performedwith a vigorous sense of humor and a lively rhythmic approach. Most of all, it should capture a spirit of carefree fun!

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Lively (q = 112 - 120)

Lively (q = 112 - 120)

Violins

Viola

Cello

String Bass

Piano(for rehearsal only)

1

1

f

2 3 4

5

fz

6

2

f

fz

f

fz

f

fz

f

f

5

fz

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

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7

8

9

10

11

12

3

2

H3

L2

3

L1

L2 3

2 3

3

11

3

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Allegro Giocosofrom Symphony No. 4, Op. 98

Full Conductor Score Johannes BrahmsApprox. time – 2:40 Arranged by Deborah Baker Monday

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

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1

13

14 15 16 17 18 3 3

33

3

2

4 3 3

3

33

3 3 3 3

3

3 3

3 3

3

3

3 3

3

33

3 3

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

19

mf

20

21 22 23 24 25

2 mf

mf

pizz.

mf

arco 4 2

pizz.

mf

arco

mf

20

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

26

cresc.

27 28 29 f

30

31

2

cresc.

f

cresc.

f

1

cresc.

1 2 4 4 21

f

cresc.

f

cresc.

f

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

32

cresc.

33 34

f

35 36

2

cresc.

f

cresc.

f

cresc.

f

cresc.

f

cresc.

34

f

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

37 38

fz

39 40 41 42

2 L1

fz

H3

fz

fz

fz

fz

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

43 44

p

leggiero

45 46 47

48

2

f grazioso

f grazioso

pizz.

mf

pizz.

mf

f

44

grazioso

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

49

50 div. 51 52 53

54 unis.

2

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

55 f (sub.)

56

57 58 59

mf

60 61

2

mf

mf

arcof

mf

arcof

mf

mf

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Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

62

f

63 64 65

66

fz

67

mf

2

f

fz

mf

f

fz

mf

f

fz

f

fz

62

f

fz

mf

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

68

69 70

f

71 72 ,73

2

f

,

f

,

mf

f

mf

f

f

73

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

74

75

76 77

mf

78

79

2 4 mf

mf

mf

mf

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

80 81

ff

82 83 84 85

86

2 ff

ff

ff

ff

ff

85

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

87

88

mf

89 90 91 92

93

p

2 mf

p

mf

p

mf

p

mf

p

mf

p

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

94

subito

f

95 96 97 98 99 3 3 3

2

subito

f

3 3 3

subito

f

3

3 3

subito

f

3 3

3

subito

f

3 3

3

94

subito

f

3 3 3

3 3 3

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

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100

101 102 103 104 105

33

3

2

3

3

3 3

pizz.

pizz.

104

3

33

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

106 107 108mf

109 110 111

cresc.

112

2

mf

cresc.

mf

cresc.

arco

mf

cresc.

arco

mf

cresc.

mf

cresc.

111

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Str. Bass

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113 f

114

115

116

cresc.

117 118

più

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2

f

cresc.

più

f

f

cresc.

più

f

f

cresc.

più

f

f

cresc.

più

f

f

cresc.

118

più

f

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

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119

120

121

122

123 124

fz

125 126

2

fz

fz

fz

fz

fz

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Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

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127

128f

129

130 131 132

2 f

sfp

f

sfp

f

sfp

f

sfp

f

129

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

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133 legato, espressivo

134

135

136 137 138 3 33

2 legato, espressivo

3 3

3

legato, espressivo

3 3

3

3 3 3

3 3 3

3

legato, espressivo

3 3

33 3 3

33 3

3 legato, espressivo

3 3

3

legato, espressivo

134

3 33

3

3 3 33

3

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Cello

Str. Bass

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139

140 141 142 ,

143

ff

144

145

3 33 3

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ff

3 3

3 3

, ff

3 3

33 3

div. ff

unis.

3 3 3

ff

143

ff 3 3

3

3 3 3

Vlns.

Vla.

Cello

Str. Bass

Pno.

1

146

147 148 149

150

151

152

153

2

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