Big Sky Overture Set Type:Digital Score

Big Sky Overture Set Type:Digital ScoreBig Sky Overture: Sweeping melodies punctuated by energetic rhythmic motives make this original overture perfect for concert and contest. Observing traditional overture form, the main theme is set first as a chorale, then in a spirited allegro. Emerging musicians utilize pizzicato, shifting for violin I and polyphonic textures over long crescendos to easily create a sound that is mature and sophisticated.

and triangle) sets the stage for the first statement of the melody

Emerging musicians utilize pizzicato

this simple but intense selection will make your beginners sound like they’ve been playing for years

the happy uplifting melody returns to remind us that Spring is around the corner

Along the way

transporting your performers Skyward

mixing unison writing with richly harmonic sections

This excellent teaching piece features many techniques including hooked bowings

which was held in Mountain City

The theme is first presented by the first violins

and often surprising rhythmic values

while broadening the limited harmonic vocabulary of the original