A Jubilant Fanfare is a brief energetic work written to be a possible way to open your next concert or festival. It contains all of the aspects of an attention-getting piece: exciting rhythms, extended harmonies, brilliant lines, and expanded percussion. It is guaranteed to capture the attention of both the audience and the performers.
The opening statement occurring in the first measure is the melodic theme of the entire work. Care must be taken with the trumpet section regarding balance. Players embrace the dissonance and always give it more weight otherwise, the resolution, and musical line, loses its meaning.
For less experienced conductors, sometimes the performance of a given work lacks the necessary clarity to achieve a stellar performance. Therefore, special attention has been given to the placement of both accents and articulations. Strict interpretation of these markings is necessary to achieve an effective performance. To achieve the desired result at measures 63 and 64, each quarter should not only be full value, but correct balance favoring the bottom of the pyramid is extremely critical. This time, the passing seventh is in the bass line. It is difficult to find pieces at this level with these harmonies treated in these ways. The penultimate measure is a chance for the percussion section to bring the piece to a close. Hard timpani mallets is the recommendation as well as the hardest xylophone mallets to bring out the glissando and bring A Jubilant Fanfare to an exciting finish. I hope you enjoy it.