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Full Conductor ScoreSO264F

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Two Scenes From The Hollow

Two Scenes From The Hollow

Kirt Mosier

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The ComposerKirt Mosier is an accomplished orchestra director at Lee’s Summit High School and Pleas-

ant Lea Junior High School located in the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District in Missouri. He has been teaching since 1986, and prior to his teaching position with the R-7 school district, Mr. Mosier was director of orchestras for nine years at Raytown South High School, and at Raytown South Middle School in the Raytown, Missouri C-2 School District. Mr. Mosier served as an adjunct professor at Baker University, where he taught music history, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where he teaches arranging to music edu-cation graduate students. Mr. Mosier holds a B.M.E. degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, as well as an M.M. degree in composition from the same institution.

During his teaching career, Mr. Mosier’s groups have consistently received the highest honor ratings, and have per-formed throughout the United States. In 1993, Mr. Mosier’s orchestra won the outstanding performing group award at a national festival in San Antonio, Texas. During his tenure at Raytown South High School, the orchestra’s string section grew from 13 to 135 members.

Kirt Mosier is an active clinician and adjudicator throughout the midwest and southern regions of the United States. Mr. Mosier is also a composer and has had works featured at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. In 1993, Mr. Mosier’s composition Baltic Dance won the National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest. That same year, Mr. Mosier was commissioned by the Missouri chapter of ASTA to write the All-State Orchestra piece, Rev-elation. In 1995, Mr. Mosier was the Missouri state coordinator for the National High School Honors Orchestra, which performed at the 1996 MENC National Conference.

Mr. Mosier has several published works for orchestra, including Out Of Adullam, commissioned in 2004 for the Mis-souri All-State Orchestra. His piece American Reel won the ASTA with NSOA 2004 Merle J. Isaac Composition Contest.

Responsible for piloting the innovative Entertainment Media Technology Center of Excellence for the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, Kirt Mosier instructs students from multiple school districts how to produce music for today’s media market. In addition to his educational duties, Mr. Mosier writes music for Epic Entertainment, a subsidiary company of Starlight Theatre in Kansas City. He is also the worship director at Deerbrook Covenant Church in Lee’s Summit.

The CompositionI was commissioned to write a piece of music based on Washington Irving’s masterpiece, “The Legend of Sleepy Hol-

low,” by Ron Polomchak, the director of the Lake Zurich South Middle School Orchestra in Illinois. Every year, Mr. Polomchak directs the ensemble in a spooky Halloween concert, and Two Scenes From The Hollow was written to capture this spirit of ghoulish fun.

The first movement, “Ichabod’s Walk,” is to be played as a strict tango. In the story, Ichabod fancies himself a ladies’ man. He likes to walk to their houses and enjoys being scared at the same time, thus the tango of Ichabod’s walk. The tango is a traditional Argentine dance between a man and a woman that has a sense of tension and romance. The move-ment starts with the low instruments in a minor key to signify Ichabod’s gangly features. Basses and celli need to pay close attention to their articulations in order to get the proper feel. Try to hold the tempo back rather than allow it to fall forward. The slides should be played rather gregariously with special attention to ending the note sharply.

“Hessian’s Ride” should be played as fast as the orchestra can handle without sounding out of control. The students should play on the string to make the movement rhythmically propulsive. Make sure the double down-bows are played with a heavy accent – they represent sword slashes.

Instrumentation List (Set C)8 – 1st Violin 5 – Cello 8 – 2nd Violin 5 – String Bass 5 – Viola 1 – Full Conductor Score

Additional scores and parts are available.

Learning BankEach student part includes a Learning Bank featuring historical information about Washington Irving and “The Leg-

end of Sleepy Hollow.” The Learning Bank is also printed on page 3 of this score.

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Learning Bank: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Washington Irving (1783-1859) was one of America’s first native-born authors. Well-respected by critics of his day and

still widely read today, Irving was a major literary figure of the early 19th century, with dozens of fictions, essays, biogra-phies, and histories to his credit. He also offered support and encouragement to young American writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Irving’s literary output is rich in its scope and stylistic diversity. His earli-est book, the extravagantly titled A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809), is a satire on academic historical writing. The book was so popular that his stuffy pseudonym (“Knickerbocker”) became a nickname for all New Yorkers; it is also the linguistic origin of the NBA basketball team, the New York Knicks. Despite the satirical nature of his first work, Irving was himself an accomplished historian: biographies of historical figures as well as studies of historical events make up the majority of his published writings. An appointment as the US Minister to Spain brought the author into close contact with Spanish culture and history, an experi-ence that resulted in a biography of Christopher Columbus and a history of the city of Granada. He also chronicled the exploration of the American West.

Although he was a prolific historical writer, Irving is not remembered today for his histories. His most famous and enduring work is the essay and short story collection entitled The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, published serially in 1819-20. This collection includes two of Irving’s most well-loved stories, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

In addition to his published writings, Washington Irving’s influence on American culture can be seen in two coinages that still enjoy popular usage: “Gotham” (a nickname for New York City used in the Batman comic book series) and “the almighty dollar” (an expression that connotes an obsession with money and material possessions).

The Story: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is set at the end of the 18th century in a small Dutch settlement in New York. The protagonist, Ichabod Crane, is a nervous and lanky schoolteacher who is trying to woo a wealthy farmer’s daughter to marry him. Returning home one cold autumn night, Ichabod becomes frightened by the rustling noises and strange shapes in the dark forest. Suddenly, his deepest fears become reality when the infamous headless horseman appears, his head strapped to his saddle. The horseman is rumored to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper slain in the Revolutionary War; every night, he returns to search for his missing head. (“Hessians” were German mercenary soldiers hired by England to fight in the American Revolution.) The headless horseman chases the terrified man through the woods until he reaches a bridge that he cannot cross. As a parting gesture, the ghostly horseman throws his head, knocking the hapless schoolteacher off his horse. (In the morning, it is revealed that the head was actually a pumpkin.) Ichabod Crane disappears from the town forever, and nobody really knows whether he fled in fear or fell prey to the headless horseman.

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I. Ichabod’s WalkWhat fearful shapes and shadows beset his pathamidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! —With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of lightstreaming across the waste fields from some distant window! —How often was he appalled by some shrubcovered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path! —How often did he shrink with curdling aweat the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet;and dread to look over his shoulder,lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping close behind him! —and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast,howling among the trees, in the idea that it wasthe Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!

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Commissioned by the Lake Zurich Middle School South Orchestras,Lake Zurich, IL, Fall of 2007. Ron Polomchak, Director.

Two Scenes From The HollowFull Conductor Score Kirt MosierApprox. time – 6:20

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