Monday, March 01, 2004
CANADIAN BAND TEACHERS BRACE THEMSELVES
Someone searched Sports and B's for an mp3 of the Hockey Night in Canada theme song. Needless to say, on a text-based webpage where I can't even put pictures up (or am completely ignorant of how to do so), we don't have that. But I did trace back through the Google search that was done, and that got me to this page.
It took 33 years, but sheet music has finally come out for the Hockey Night in Canada theme. It is available in simplified or intermediate piano, piano and guitar chords, and will be available in arrangement for a brass quintet.
The clincher? The HNIC theme has been arranged for a 79-part band. That's right -- piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, three types of saxophones, trumpets, fluegel (sp?) horns, trombones, tubas, upright basses, and an array of percussive instruments can combine to bring the Hockey Night in Canada theme to you in an auditorium setting or maybe even a football halftime show, should you choose to become a high school band teacher and try to make 79 kids do this, which would be amazing. If anyone out there does this, please send me a recording.
One of the articles in the history section had this to say:
Kara Horne, manager of materials development for the (Royal Conservatory of Music), said they're temporarily adding the song to a list of contemporary songs students may choose to play for their Grade 4 or Grade 7 examinations.
She expects girls and especially boys will soon push its popularity past Darth Vader's dark, brooding anthem, beating out the Batman theme and the jazzy anthem of Charlie Brown.
The HNIC theme would have been awesome to play on my recorder for fourth grade, as opposed to the copout "Mary Had a Little Lamb," which I was totally guilty of playing, as was everybody and their mother in that music class at Naval Avenue Elementary School.
It took 33 years, but sheet music has finally come out for the Hockey Night in Canada theme. It is available in simplified or intermediate piano, piano and guitar chords, and will be available in arrangement for a brass quintet.
The clincher? The HNIC theme has been arranged for a 79-part band. That's right -- piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, three types of saxophones, trumpets, fluegel (sp?) horns, trombones, tubas, upright basses, and an array of percussive instruments can combine to bring the Hockey Night in Canada theme to you in an auditorium setting or maybe even a football halftime show, should you choose to become a high school band teacher and try to make 79 kids do this, which would be amazing. If anyone out there does this, please send me a recording.
One of the articles in the history section had this to say:
Kara Horne, manager of materials development for the (Royal Conservatory of Music), said they're temporarily adding the song to a list of contemporary songs students may choose to play for their Grade 4 or Grade 7 examinations.
She expects girls and especially boys will soon push its popularity past Darth Vader's dark, brooding anthem, beating out the Batman theme and the jazzy anthem of Charlie Brown.
The HNIC theme would have been awesome to play on my recorder for fourth grade, as opposed to the copout "Mary Had a Little Lamb," which I was totally guilty of playing, as was everybody and their mother in that music class at Naval Avenue Elementary School.
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