Reviewer: Krista M.

Reeder

REPERTOIRE EVALUATION FORM

Title: Along Came a Spider

Composer / Arranger: Mike Hannickel

Publisher: Curnow Music Press

Date of Publication: 2004

Price: $39 Band Set & Score; $8 Extra Score

Ensemble Type: Beginning Band

Description/Genre: How would Little Miss Muffet sound?

Duration: 2:00

Difculty: V. Easy ! Easy ! Mod. ! Diff. ! V. Diff. !

Score: Full Score ! Reduced Score ! / Transposed ! C-Score !

Instrumentation:
Picc ! Fl1 ! Fl2 ! Fl3 ! Alto Fl ! Bass Fl !
Ob1 ! Ob2 ! EHn ! Bsn1 ! Bsn2 ! CBsn !
EbCl! Cl1 ! Cl2 ! Cl 3 ! Alto Cl ! Bass Cl !
CAltoCl ! CBCl ! SSax! ASax ! TSax ! BarSax !
BassSax !

Cor1 ! Cor2 ! Cor3 ! Trp1 ! Trp2 ! Trp3 !
Hn1 ! Hn2 ! Hn3 ! Hn4 ! Flg1 ! Flg2 !
Tbn1 ! Tbn2 ! Tbn3 ! BTbn ! BarTC ! BarBC !
Euph1 ! Euph2 ! Tuba1 ! Tuba2 ! StBass !

Harp ! Celeste! Glock. ! Xylo ! Mar. ! Vibes !
Piano ! Synth ! Chimes ! Crotales ! Timp ! Bass Dr. !
Snare ! Toms ! CrCym ! SusCym ! Tamb ! Tri. !
Vibraslap ! Wdblk ! Ratchet ! Maracas !

Unusual Instrumentation/Usage:
Glissandos in Trombone - fun for 5th graders!

Advanced percussion part included - adds 8th notes for snare

Feet stomps - scream in the utes - very comical & enjoyable!

Other Considerations:
Highest Pitch Trumpet: A4 Highest Pitch Clarinet: A4

Clarinet Crosses Break?: Yes ! No ! N/A !

Other Range Concerns: No

Technical Concerns: Staccatos
Chromatics

Articulations/Bowings: Short & Accented

Meter(s): 4/4

Rhythmic Complexities: Not overly difcult -
Passing of the melody between voices

Key(s): BbM

Harmonic Concerns: Accidentals/Chromaticism

Primary Texture(s): Homophonic

Featured Instrument(s)/Solo(s):Trombone

Compositional Techniques: Chromatics & glisses makes the sound of a
spider come to life!

Form: Intro
A - A - B - C - Transition - A - Transition - A

Program Notes:
Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider who sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away!

It doesnt take much to recall that nursery rhyme! This piece will be sure to put Miss Muffets situation to
a melody you wont forget either!

Similar Pieces (Title/Composer):
Concerto for Crash Cymbals - Mike Hannickel

Additional Comments:

What is at the heart of this piece?
Its fun for kids to take a nursery rhyme and make it new again. This piece is especially fun and they are
able to take almost everything they have learned their rst year and put it into one piece of music. This
piece is about enjoying to play and enjoying to listen. Everyone is a kid at heart!

I would play this piece with: 5th Grade Band

I would recommend this piece: Yes ! No !