A Longford Legend, by Robert Sheldon - Score & Sound

[@Area09]

Im a freshman playing this for UIL and let me tell you i love it(im a flute)

[@jordy9606]

freshman here who also played this at uil, im a trombone snd it was my favorite piece in our set along with prestissimo

[@logang099]

I am in seventh grade and playing with got UIL😮‍💨

[@love_1_life265]

He conducted it for our concert and explained what each movement was based on and it helped to convey that through the music. For those wondering the first piece is about a retired veteran who purchases a ship to let the town like him more and invites them all on this voyage around the lake however the conflict is that no one truly know how to stop the ship thus leading them to forever be going in circles on that lake. The second movement is about a hunter and his love who recently were to be married however when caught hunting in a snowstorm outside he painfully mistakes his wife for a deer and shoots, killing his love and accepting his fate. The third and final movement is about a farmer who is married to a woman who is the embodiment of hell on earth and so he pleads for the devil to take her with him but she causes such distress with the devil that he returns back to the farmer. The poems that the music is based on are really enjoyable. I'm glad I was able to hear Sheldon's take on the pieces.

[@roenero7242]

love_1_life Who the fuck shoots at random shit during a snowstorm? Shouldn’t they be like finding safety first before shooting shit.

[@NicolasHernandez-el7os]

Robo Gaming bruh it’s just a story calm down lmao

[@Doxsein]

Thanks for the explanations from the composer himself!

[@mrplebpotato2824]

Ayo do you know what the poems are called?

[@simonatoer]

@@mrplebpotato2824 they're at the beginning of this song lol. They're briefly shown

[@fortepiano4491]

The second movement for me will always be _Young money ballin'_

[@Jaxonhandle]

For me it’s young molly BRUH

[@rnswnsn1311]

Lmaoo

[@DrKuddlyTV]

for me, it was my first taste of “I need more expression from that suspended cymbal please”

[@mazda_rt24-p]

my teacher is Kilbury so I immediately saw his name in "killyburn brae" now many of us call it kilbury bae 🤣 mr kilbury if you see this, good choice and can we play el Camino real plz

[@connertolman8024]

A long ford legend A short Chevy tale A mini Miata story An enormous ram epoch Young molly brawn Young money ballin Killyburn brae Kill E. Burn Brad Caleb urn Bae

[@braedynpentkowski3754]

Measure markings with times: MVT 1 Measure 9- 0:14 Measure 17- 0:24 Measure 25- 0:34 Measure 33- 0:44 Measure 41- 0:54 Measure 49- 1:05 Measure 57- 1:14 Measure 63- 1:22 MVT 2 Measure 71 (beginning)- 1:36 Measure 76- 1:57 Measure 84- 2:20 Measure 88- 2:33 Measure 91- 2:44 Measure 93- 2:52 Measure 101- 3:14 Measure 104- 3:24 Measure 109- 3:45 MVT 3 Measure 114 (beginning)- 4:16 Measure 122- 4:24 Measure 130- 4:32 Measure 134- 4:36 Measure 142- 4:44 Measure 150- 4:52 Measure 158- 5:01 Measure 166- 5:09 Measure 174- 5:17 Measure 182- 5:26 Measure 190- 5:34 Measure 198- 5:42 Measure 206- 5:50 Measure 216- 6:02 Measure 224- 6:08 Measure 232- 6:15 Measure 240- 6:23 Measure 248- 6:30 Measure 260- 6:41 Measure 272- 6:52

[@mazda_rt24-p]

is this what you do in your free time 😂

[@matthewcooper4248]

Why?

[@nameless_tarnished]

Ah, thank you! PS: If yall are confused, he's putting the measures/rehearsal mark timestamps so people can listen and see how the music is supposed to sound when playing it in their own concert

[@BeeOfBumble]

blessing

[@HunterHerrero]

👑

[@ashton2161]

Fun fact: Sheldon was the director at our school for 12 years. He started our current directors senior year and quit when he started making bank from writing. He came back this year for one day to work on this with us 😄

[@daquaviousbingleton3403]

If you don’t mind telling, what year was he a teacher?

[@BainPlays]

I remember first playing this my sophomore year of high school. And then playing it at my last concert of high school my senior year. This will always be one of my favorite band pieces just because of my nostalgia

[@thejalanand8810]

Vexyis ha our middle school band is playing it

[@OneStepEdit]

Our middle school band is playing this

[@clarine3057]

Our band is playing this as our third piece for UIL and I love how hard the notes are to play

[@logantillman7409]

currently a sophomore; also playing this

[@grace3221]

I’m also a sophomore playing this

[@josephstribrny2539]

As a music student preparing this piece for my conducting class, I gotta say this beat slaps.

[@BigTeo55]

Slaps so hard makes yo mama vote Obama

[@mazda_rt24-p]

@@BigTeo55 bruh

[@girlroller20021]

I love the first sax solo in Young Molly Bawn and I'm super excited to play this

[@KevinSiebert]

All of out saxes are seniors, so there is just like a 4 measure silence when we're going to play it

[@bodiehotdog3458]

0:33 Oml this is one of the many really good parts in this songs

[@lovemochaxx]

played this at allstate as a flutist/bassoonist and the bass and contrabass clarinets were always next to me and they were MONSTERS so loud smh

[@fsdhuy]

somehow we played this in our all southern middle school band as a bass clarinetist, uhh we made up about 1% of the entire band ;-; i couldnt even hear myself

[@lovemochaxx]

@@fsdhuy rip 😭✋

[@pianorelaxing8330]

Mvmt 3, oh Lord... the picc part😭😭

[@hipeoplezhou1397]

1:36 second movement 4:15 third movement

[@zohaib642]

We we're gonna play this for the spring concert but we couldn't bc of corona :(

[@leightonnelson1567]

Me too

[@ME-fn4zz]

sucks to suck am doing it now

[@ofgraham]

My all time favourite band piece

[@leightonnelson1567]

Themes from green bushes is another good one

[@BasicHoneyBee]

End of first movement 1:34 Oboe entrance 2:59 End of second movement 4:13

[@Eggs-t]

I can't be the only one to realize the "dies irae" part at 6:08 right. Sounds great though❤

[@ivorietracanelli3249]

The fact that my band, from a town of 5,000 people beat 5 bands from the states and got gold with this song, is amazing

[@waikerwolf6606]

1:04 49 3rd movement 4:14 4:20 122 4:30 5:37 194 6:02 216ish

[@Imm_rtal]

I miss playing this piece my 8th grade year, it was so fun

[@MiraDaWulf]

That flute part... YEET

[@tessahorton1843]

our junior high honors band is performing this for UIL, wish us luck ✌️😗

[@itzarecorder5815]

How’d it go?

[@giovannyguereca2745]

have to play this for uil in late february for trumpet

[@lucasrojers2535]

i love when the oboe will be following the flute and clarinet and then there will be a a 16th note run, so they will just give the oboe the melody cause it's easier GIVE ME THE HARD PART YOU WON'T. NO BALLS

[@yourmomhahaaa]

my oboe friend bullies me because my part (I'm a 3rd clarinet which is always much easier than 1st and 2nd clarinet) is harder than his

[@XavierKing-c2j]

@@yourmomhahaaalogistically speaking, the third and second parts are generally harder to control, because you’re playing around with venting and throat notes

[@TheGymSavant]

THANK YOU

[@HunterHerrero]

I love this so much, I remember playing this in ninth grade

[@abroadhorizon2566]

I believe I played this my junior year of high school as one of two tuba players at the time, and the dark March near the end is absolutely S-tier, but played down an octave gives it a little bit of that extra turbo, that pizzazz, that special sauce.

[@cdoutdoors5600]

6:03 the trombone

[@jennifergarcianajera4686]

My favorite part to play....but, it ended too fast

[@Ziggymoo]

One of my all time favorite pieces.

[@johnnynguyen5371]

Had a hell of a time playing this piece crazy its a level 4

[@edpp4453]

As the trumpet soloists for all 3 pieces it’s not that bad when you get out of the being nervous/ scared to play

[@johnnynguyen5371]

@@edpp4453 but for a flute it's he'll especially movement 3 (hard but also my favorite)

[@honeybear8354]

I played with last year as a 7th grader with the 8th graders. We recorded it along with Hands Across the Sea and The Seal Lullaby and we got into the National band festival. I’m so excited.

[@tylerh2712]

Loved this piece played it at the UNCG summer music Camp this summer

[@wownat]

no ones gonna talk about how amazing 6:05 is?

[@xapollox1855]

It’s called a dies irae I think

[@hunterlocke04]

@@xapollox1855 That’s apart of different song

[@maxr.1264]

It’s my favorite part

[@lorenzomerini3958]

@@xapollox1855 bit which dies irae?

[@lorenzomerini3958]

@@hunterlocke04 which song?

[@WolfgangXP65-67]

Wish I played this but I wasn't in the high school band because I was in terrible middle school and my teacher's band played this last year XP. This reminds me of my growing relationship with someone.

[@bennett703]

i was extremely lucky to play this in 7th grade

[@emilicious8273]

We have to play this for UIL

[@fireforge9667]

man, our band has a lot to improve on. but seeing this played well is really psyching me up. time to practice!

[@CoralBurrito432]

blud is not ash ketchum💀💀

[@juliav200]

A fucking banger

[@ethanguerrero1049]

I’m only a 8th grader my band director gave me this and I have 2 weeks to learn it! I play alto 2

[@sharidavis5128]

As a Baritone player, the second movement is the scariest for me.

[@NickRL_]

as an alto player respectfully fuck the third movement

[@mazda_rt24-p]

@@NickRL_ as 1st trombone I'm bittersweet- upper octave the whole song but I actually get a fun part

[@khuongpham5516]

As a tuber, this is actually a pretty good deal (barring the dumb effects in mvt 1) and I generally feel bad for everyone else

[@judecrooker6618]

song is easy af for tenor sax, really glad i switched off of 1st alto

[@lialubinsky]

3:20 The subito piano is so good

[@jackmull4770]

6:09 Heeeeerrres Jooohhhnnnyyy!!!

[@benjaminjaso7754]

Jack Mull yup Dies Irae

[@smiley7803]

@@benjaminjaso7754 shut up nobody asked

[@benjaminjaso7754]

Smile y how about you shut up?

[@leightonnelson1567]

Bassoon part is really fun

[@Brosskthe1]

0:19, 1:04 4:19

[@XMVNXMUA__]

im playing this tomorrow and its complicated but not really. i dont like 8th grade 😭

[@epicboylimited]

trombone is so fun in this

[@leightonnelson1567]

The dies irae in mvt. 3 is fun

[@tjeffersonb]

High woodwinds in their second year of playing looking at the opener like 😮

[@yourmomhahaaa]

ts had me failing band for a while😭🙏 still love this piece tho

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

6:06 the intensity of the farmer being in hell should make this trumpet part A LOT LOUDER to really imperialise the idea with this wizard of oz tornado feel as the trumpet hold a solid horn to plow through the mysterious like Satan himself has just arrived in front of you...over all though, the symphony fantastic movement 4 death song is such a nice touch but I wish I had those recording studio sliders to adjust who should be louder but sadly it doesn't work like that unless I had every all state recording for the instruments and combined it together controlling each groups sound. Over all.. Robert Shelton is a god, especially his sea song whatever one it was called...on the tip of my tongue.. Anyway..really amazing

[@KevinSiebert]

I thought it was the farmers wife and also the low brass is playing the dies irae

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@KevinSiebert I can't recall, might have been, howevere yes I was referring to the Dies irae which was from Symphony Fantastique circa 1810 played in the Paris theater Porte st. Martin. Expanded upon by Franz Listz who extended it by 30 minutes in 1830, same year the Martin theater closed. Just like all the banks in 1930.

[@genocidepanther9004]

I immediately thought of earthbound for some reason

[@danieltramp7432]

Did everyone play this in middle school band

[@camr.5447]

Measures 98-104 sounds like the DreamWorks intro.

[@MG-ts1xs]

i want that alto solo

[@drewshannon5465]

Okay so Sheldon definitely was influenced by Holst right? The third movement has so many similarities to Holst's 4th movement from his Suite in F.

[@Someone2464-]

6:08 dies irae motif in low brass.

[@realmadmaddox]

By far the hardest sax song I have played

[@HunterHalo15]

Oh stop your whining

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

​​@@HunterHalo15 The hardest saxophone piece may be Fantasia but that's still easy enough. He's also not whining, submitting a fact of his experience.

[@HunterHalo15]

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar he’s my friend, just so happened I saw his comment😂

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@HunterHalo15 Oh! Okay that's fair. Get em to play Fantasia

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@HunterHalo15 this song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ-TqKmCeNOXabcsi=gcVXUrEXFY-k5IV5

[@Deason723]

6:08 Dies irae

[@kito1156]

6:08 reference to Dies Irae

[@kevinye1041]

0:43 mm33

[@oneknight2548]

6:20 & 2:50

[@Wowza45]

I really need some help at measure 122 going into 134 on first clarinet for whatever flipping reason I can’t get that beat right and I don’t wanna keep getting yelled at for it

[@ElectricSnivy]

I find it weird that this piece reminds me of West Highlands Sojourn also by Robert Sheldon, although that may just be because I'm playing it in my band right now.....

[@redleader4876]

4:13

[@jasonzurlo1543]

You can't tell me the second movement isnt off the shrek soundtrack

[@Wingsofire197]

Yo I band director said it’s good playing this peice in 7 grade and some 8th graders is that true I hear people in the comments say they played this in high school so I think we’re a good band our high school timber creek as you may know played in the macys day parade freaking insane so yeah and they were taught by the band directors we our getting taught by

[@Mike-ww7bc]

The baritone solo the best part

[@thatguyi919]

Who died? 6:16

[@chefteeds9112]

Percussion tho.

[@lylarasco1498]

We played this my freshman year. I played tambourine and gong in the 3rd movement

[@crowthebirb2586]

Played this for our middle school UIL. I was in the 7th grade. It was grade 4, and I too played tamb and gong for third movement.

[@chefteeds9112]

@@crowthebirb2586 I’m now going to be a Junior in HS but I played this in 8th grade and I played snare drum 1st and 3rd, triangle 2nd.

[@khylaperkins1235]

I’m a 7th grader playing this for UIL in a few days!!

[@User28207]

My triangle part is easy in movement 2 but I can’t get it right at the last measure help😭💀

[@User28207]

ME TOO I THOUGHT IT WAS JS ME AND THE LAST PERFORMANCE WAS THE ONLY TiME I GOT IT RIGHT AND WE GOT A 1😭

[@TheAries414]

0:23

[@Wowza45]

00:04:20

[@mariaboccaccio4425]

measure 21 and 22 the picc rushed. 0:29 - 0:31

[@thejalanand8810]

OK BOOMER

[@kevinye1041]

Mm49 1:05

[@lafondu1433]

im in middle school playing this

[@rickzhao7862]

La Fon Du u must be cool, u here that trumpet solo, that’s me

[@sinisterplays852]

Rick Zhao No it’s not asshat

[@Wowza45]

00:01:08

[@rickzhao7862]

Dab

[@sidd3093]

You did comment on this video you demon

[@TheAries414]

0:17

[@tonyaltobello]

4:15

[@Ekolotl]

4:13