You Decide

Nicole Piunno

General Info

Year: 2020
Duration: c. 1:40
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $20.00

Instrumentation (Adaptable Band)

Full Score
Part 1

Flute
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I
B-flat Trumpet I

Part 2

B-flat Soprano Clarinet II
E-flat Alto Saxophone I
B-flat Trumpet II

Part 3

E-flat Alto Saxophone II
F Horn

Part 4

Bassoon
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
Trombone
Euphonium

Part 5

B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Tuba

Percussion I-II-III

Bass Drum
Bells
Cabasa
Marimba
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbal
Tambourine
Triangle
Wood Blocks

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

You Decide is a march-style piece that allows the students to play a role in the composition process. Students have the opportunity to decide which phrases to play throughout the piece and these decisions ultimately determine how the piece sounds.

- Program Note by composer

Performance Notes

This piece is written for five parts (plus optional percussion) to accommodate various instrumentations in a concert band setting. I want to give students the opportunity to play a role in the composition process; therefore, the piece is set up so each part has an option A and an option B line. The teacher and students can decide which option to play every eight bars. For example, the instruments on Part 1 can all play option A for measures 1-8, while Parts 2-5 play option B. Every eight bars the students on each part can decide which option to play.

One possible way to approach learning the piece is to have the band all learn option A together, followed by learning option B together. After the students have a good grasp on the piece, more freedom can be given over which option to play every eight bars. The wind parts are set up with eight measures per line so that the students can use a pencil to circle line A or B to help remember which line they are supposed to play.

I did not give an option of part A or B between m. 17-25 and m. 41-end, therefore lines A and B are the same during those phrases.

Media

Audio: Reference recording. MIDI realization

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)

All Wind Works

Articulate March (2016)
At a Crossroads (2022)
Autumn Air (2016)
Be Still and Still Moving (2020)
Beauty Broken (2015)
Blue Radiance (2020)
Bright Shadow Fanfare (2021)
Catharsis (2020)
Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2018)
Dance the Joy Alive (2016)
Eternity in an Hour (2016)
I Will Lament and Love (2018)
Image on Truth (2019)
Letters from the Traveling Doll (2021)
Look Not Upon Us (2011)
Monterey Sketches
Night Watches (2020)
On a Hill Far Away
Postcard from Sequoia (2019)
Postcard from Sequoia (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
Resound (2021)
Safely Rest (2020)
Shifting Shadows
Solace Dance (2016)
Solace Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
The Spirit Is Willing (2023)
Spring Fanfare (2016)
Sunflower Studies (2023)
Three Miniatures (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
Through Wind and Whispers (2014)
Where Words Cannot Go (2020)
Woven
You Decide (Adaptable Band) (2020)

Resources

Creative Repertoire Initiative
Flaherty, Jean. " You Decide by Nicole Piunno." Literature for a Pandemic (and Beyond). Web. Accessed 24 August 2020
Nicole Piunno, personal correspondence, July 2020
Nicole Piunno website Accessed 3 July 2020
Pease, Andy. "You Decide by Nicole Piunno." Wind Band Literature, 26 August 2020. Web. Accessed 26 August 2020
Perusal score