The Last Centaur by Rossano Galante

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G. Schirmer Concert Band - Grade 5
Composed in the style of a grand and descriptive film score, The Last Centaur is a musical depiction of a centaur who is separated from his family by war, the ensuing adventures, and ultimate reunion with his family and friends. The music begins with a stately, lyrical theme in the horns followed by solo oboe. This main theme is then woven throughout the work as it develops and grows with intensity. Sweeping woodwind lines and majestic brass fanfares capture the excitement of the drama and ultimate joyous resolution. Powerful and evocative writing! (Recorded by the West Genesee (NY) High School Wind Ensemble - Andrew Perry, conductor)
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[@shapelier1695]

I was the tuba player in this recording! I love this piece so much!

[@saltypoolwater]

Roberto Ramos Brito Really? That's awesome!

[@isaac8093]

You are now officially a hero of mine. My Symphonic band at school is going to play this, and I hope we do good enough that you'd be proud to hear it.

[@dogemusicproductions7444]

Roberto Ramos Brito Nice job! I'm a tuba also. You sounded great! I hope I can play this piece one day

[@seanp4285]

im sean pickard i was an all state tuba player in 06 and 07 at west genny

[@cherylwald90]

Tuba player here also! I loved this piece so much! Probably the best bass line I ever played!

[@vaguermoose1002]

Haven't played this piece, but I've met Galante. He was a clinician at a high school band clinic I attended. It's very enlightening having the composer teach his own music. We only shook hands... I should've gotten his autograph

[@andrewkimtrumpet]

I got his autograph last year; he was our band director for the district band event. Such a cool and fun guy, plus heś personal friends with my band director.

[@disamis6873]

@@andrewkimtrumpet I got to meet him over a video call! Awesome guy 👌

[@everythingclarinet905]

I have never heard a High School that sounds like this!!! 👏. The 2nd flute solo gives me the chills!

[@RedstoneManiac13]

God those horns in the beginning

[@mlefeb]

+RedstoneManiac They weren't that bad tho

[@RedstoneManiac13]

+Matthew LeFebvre No, I mean, they are FANTASTIC

[@mlefeb]

***** There were some spots though were they messed up, not as good as the ones we have.

[@Crazymonkey1013_]

+RedstoneManiac West Genny horn section for you ;)

[@tambola1231]

Galante... Always there to make the most magical pieces ever! I love him

[@ittim456]

Such a powerful song

[@zanderzhang6832]

Holy crap this needs to be my alarm

[@jackiep1741]

So fortunate to have been able to work with Rossano on this piece and record it for him and have him actually conduct our band for the recording!

[@mrk1mchi]

cool

[@tambola1231]

Lucky!!

[@sofiauptownfunk7083]

Horn player here, this piece is SO fun to play. I’m currently playing it in class, and WOW. It’s just *chefs kiss*

[@Tei_022]

The bass clarinet parts, the horn parts, the high woodwinds, everything is beautiful. 🥰

[@ametoyukiyi7512]

Currently playing this piece in my senior year of high school (Grad year 2022). I've been with the same band and band director for 6 years, and I'm already feeling the nostalgia. Man, it's just so nice being in my band and knowing these people for so long. I am not the best french horn player, but I'll do my best to give the piece the respect it deserves.

[@capi9445]

I cried when I played this piece, it has to be the most beautiful piece I've played so far

[@jakemf1]

Try Whispers from Beyond by same composer

[@capi9445]

@@jakemf1 i just listened to it, it was absolutely phenomenal, thank you so much

[@andrewnicholas9672]

This is the greatest piece of music to be heard by a human being in the history of planet earth. This song belongs in a museum for people to listen to thousands of years later.

[@NS-cy1hh]

Pieces like this cannot get thumbs down!

[@mlefeb]

+Nathan St John No! It got two! How can this happen?

[@ivan2v704]

Matthew LeFebvre Five*

[@thebenji8653]

and now 10 :'(

[@brianbaumgarn5795]

There are died in the wool grunge rockers out there everywhere.

[@naheim1231231234]

I went to a band camp at the University of Virginia and I played the Euphonium and this was one of the pieces we played. I love it so much

[@johnkleinsbivgestfan]

Wow! I love the harmony with the flute and clarinet!

[@magrofalls5139]

2:58 - 4:30 is the best thing to ever come out of a composer

[@clarestruck9052]

I PLAYED THIS MY JUNIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL AND IT’S MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE ❤️

[@giovanniperez7660]

I wanna play this so bad!!

[@stinkymayas110]

when my high school band played this i was in 8th grade (i was in the band a year early) and was the only euphonium

[@what7643]

Really hope my band will play this within the next 2 years! i’m in love with this piece😍

[@plainki2174]

Shell North did you guys play it?

[@HikeYourHeartOut]

Props to the solo grace notes in the piccolo to start the piece. Interesting orchestration choice, but it sounds super cool.

[@timyang2996]

I’m 90% sure that this piece was commissioned by my high school a few years back as a gift for our director

[@salwoyciesjes9182]

Tim Yang idk probably

[@aysiawrites232]

i love this guy's music!

[@oscarrh8005]

This is a high school? All the time I wish I was raised in a school this good, just so i would be better. It kind of makes me sad that it's not like that.

[@oscarrh8005]

Knightmare 87112 peek at the description, it’s a little hard to admit. For the past month I’ve been aiming to be really good at the Flute, all I have been doing is practicing!

[@mlefeb]

Knightmare 87112 Sorry to say, but some of the winds in this recording are kind of rough, so there’s no way it can be a college

[@katiehill5947]

2:09 is so amazing, those trombones,, makes me loves playing that instrument- and then the mystical horn part at 2:16 makes the part even better

[@hhy9082]

I love this piece ❤️❤️❤️

[@jamiefredericks2330]

This piece was commissioned by one of the senior classes a few years back at my high school as a graduation gift for our band teacher. We are playing it this year (my junior year) and I abolutely love it!

[@TheTTony444]

Jamie Fredericks looks difficult for the trumpets, I play trumpet

[@pjdrummer100]

This for my dad Mr. Tedeschi band director at North Haven High School Branford CT.

[@derekskidmore3319]

what a fantastic arrangement. i would love to play this with a group.

[@TrentEngineFan]

I'm not even a band kid and I think this is amazing

[@sadessades6698]

4:08 have fun winds

[@maddoxgore8550]

It’s really just a chromatic scale going down but that tempo is a yikes

[@CDtrumpet5]

This piece was commissioned by the seniors of North Haven High School class of 2014, who raised money to have the piece written for the senior concert. We performed it at our senior concert. It was dedicated to Kenneth Tedeschi, and his name is mentioned in the inscription below the title. It was a great experience.

[@jyeyee18]

Woah, legendary song

[@KevinMartinez-de6fh]

An amazing piece for sure

[@sarahglover5430]

This is an amazing piece. My friend shared this to me. It sounds great

[@eavin4845]

the beginning makes me wish i play french horn

[@plainki2174]

eavin PLAY IT!!

[@eavin4845]

Kermit the frog's stalkish uncle i play clarinet lol

[@Tei_022]

eavin I see another clarinet player appreciates French Horn. I play bass clarinet.

[@whalien_translations]

amen

[@markbernard4156]

I played Piccolo RIP ears, so many high notes

[@jamarisaiah3994]

absolutely amazing

[@brianbaumgarn5795]

Pretty magnificent sonority throughout this piece.

[@spencer9427]

Best part hands down: 4:01

[@prathampatil2733]

This is a whole movie

[@someoneyouprobablydontknow8719]

I am going to recommend this to my director right now

[@jessih3824]

The only Rossano Falange piece that’s different from his others

[@planetsardine7144]

playing this for euphonium as a freshman! it's hard but so rewarding!

[@SavJenkins]

Libby Keledjian oml Libby I found you ~Savannah Jenkins

[@naheim1231231234]

Libby Keledjian I played it on Euphonium and it was hard😂 but after the practice I love it so much

[@igortristao3102]

I almost play this piece, got study for months I'd play Flugel, mad flutes parts I got addicted in this meanwhile

[@kingdomofalbania5415]

It's this my Grand song!! ya

[@peytonriddle1439]

Saxophone player in this recording😋

[@user-ke1fs9ux9n]

me too. Im from korea

[@lilliampumpernickle4655]

i wanna play this so bad. im only in middle school so this probably wont happen

[@benhummel5723]

That's why you go to high school band

[@lilliampumpernickle4655]

Ben Hummel​ obviously. But marching band looks like too much work. I don't wanna be wearing a suit in 90° weather

[@benhummel5723]

you wouldn't do this in marching band this would be your high school's concert band. and I totally recommend doing marching band anyways because you can learn a lot of new things and you make tons of new friends

[@quincihenry7916]

in middle school, i said the same thing you're saying. but i stuck with it and now i wouldn't trade it for the world, and next year ill be studying music ed in college. you never know, you might just end up loving it.

[@timcuber37]

My high school's wind ensemble played this and they were really good.

[@ABFan-bj2uj]

If they make something similar to this, the bass trombone, the contrabasses, and the tubas should play their lowest notes at C1.

[@TheoSKMultitracks]

Even better idea - Bb1. It’s higher, for sure, but you could feasibly have a *lot* more people playing it (Trombones/Baritones/Tubas/String Basses/Bass Clarinet?/Contrabass Clarinet/Bassoon/Contrabassoon) - it’d also help that the 3-valve Baris and triggerless Trombones could actually play those notes without using false tones, so there’s some extra body in that. Maybe get the Tubas & Contrabassoons to play Bb0 (+ String Basses could also maybe drop tube down there) for extra unholiness? Yeah…..I get excited quickly. I love to see this sort of idea anywhere, regardless of how it’s done

[@orionshield9885]

my senior highschool band sight read that today :) or attempted to xD

[@johann7757]

This is around a level 6-8 and my band teacher wants to push this song for an 8th grade band next year which I'm going to be in ;-; ( though it is true that the intermediate band I'm in is really advance, according to the state we should be playing 1.5's to 2's but we play in between 3.5's and 5's pieces like novena by James swearingen, Nathan hale trilogy, and mountain King by George something idk forgot his name )

[@alexmoore4552]

One of the bands we have in our town is nuts. We have 6th graders playing grade 4 music, and they're playing it well. Our directors push us a lot.

[@fishdinners7760]

im a senior in hs and im playing nathan hale trilogy lol

[@johann7757]

Alex Moore damn. My director pushes a lot too XD. He wants to do duel of dates and imperial march which are both like level 7 this year. Also we got an insane song like a month ago called deja view. It's easy for winds but I feel bad for percussion.

[@milopazi90]

this piece is sad. not criticizing it but it is good it makes me sad.

[@lilliampumpernickle4655]

kind of. Sounds like something from ancient greece

[@patarcc4150]

...rossano galante.

[@gracehibbs3147]

We have to play this for band and I hate doing the runs. (flute player)

[@randombullshitwithhalfachr774]

Runs are just so fun in flute. Especially when they go through multiple octaves.

[@everythingclarinet905]

4:10 HOW?

[@user-ly7pw4xq8i]

명작입니다

[@symphonicband98ofpantabang11]

why the signature are all the same????? i want to transcribe it but the piece does not have a key signature. :((((

[@symphonicband98ofpantabang11]

pls nswer me :( I like this piece

[@mimib9884]

ill soi I'm pretty sure the key signature is written in the accidentals. It's one of those pieces without a key signature.

[@joes4389]

It allows Galante to be really flexible with notes to have no key signature. There are also so many accidentals that a key signature would be essentially useless. You can still transcribe it, just do it using the no flat no sharp key for every instrument and then add in the accidentals.

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

I know about the 7/8 part, but ahhhhh that ending F minor chord.....

[@keylinboyd7017]

um 4:08 well then

[@physes1139]

Keylin Boyd Ahahahah ikr. I was like, well dam. I guess that'll never be me

[@xenovaz8958]

I am doing this piece right now as a flute player, and it wasn’t bad till my director took it full tempo….

[@ethanplett3839]

My band played this and i was one of 2 horns.

[@sarcasticommentator]

WOW.

[@johnphillips5993]

Those who say Rossano Galante is cliché... but are perfectly ok with playing a ton of Karl King marches?

[@joshuafisher3306]

Bass clarinet part is great

[@avah9721]

Joshua Fisher I agree. It’s almost like a clarinet part in difficulty and I had a lot of fun with it.

[@EthanHyland]

​@@avah9721Nice. I hope my band plays at least one of his pieces. I also play bass clarinet.

[@alazheim3522]

mantap

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

Haha poor woodwinds at 4:09

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

Then again is it y'all or horns that have a harder part? Y'all have a lot technique necessary, but horns have the range and they still have to get a good sound.

[@xenovaz8958]

I’m playing this right now as a flute player, and I was doing fine till my director took it to full tempo 😭

[@michaelolmoz225]

Does anyone in this recording play the 16th note run at 2:17?

[@annika9953]

CorrosiveRi0T yeah but it’s slower and doesn’t seem like it

[@mistersmithii7614]

@@annika9953 what no they play it fine

[@annika9953]

Mister Smith II ya know this was two years ago and I have absolutely no memory of saying that or why I even did, listening back now I totally hear it

[@michaelolmoz225]

Annika bruh what. I don’t even remember this thread or making this comment 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 listening to it now I might’ve just been deaf

[@annika9953]

@@michaelolmoz225 honestly me too, deaf and dumb lmao

[@lovermuzak]

Not bad. I don't know if it is the band but I didn't enjoy this as much as some of the composer's other pieces. Plus surprised there is no Eb clarinet part especially for a Grade 5 piece.

[@judepitre2089]

Why did they choose this band?..

[@zacho_franko]

girl wtf they did great

[@Jgr289]

The horns yikes

[@10secondfilmschool]

These guys are 5th graders?!

[@yeespaghetti58]

+Linus Lau No, this is a High School group. Grade 5 is just an indicator of the difficulty of the piece.

[@praedratheargumentativeand6412]

+Linus Lau No, the _music_ is Grade 5, which means it is pretty difficult.

[@ethanmartin2781]

+Linus Lau lol

[@alexceballos.2841]

grade 5 is for11 graders because if they started 7 grade then they have been playing for 5 years

[@ethanmartin2781]

power to the chicken horse thats not what it means... It's just a level of difficulty. Not everyone started playing in 7th grade.

[@aliciadalbey1201]

Yeah that oboe is a tad luckluster

[@aliciadalbey1201]

I was in highschool when i made this comment...jesus

[@lafamilleberube]

heuuu... C'est donc ben faux!

[@thertb7719]

+Catherine Malenfant Catherine, tu veux dire quoi le mot "faux"? xD

[@tshell4251]

thumbs down

[@Coolnutty-ot5oz]

Boi, tf is wrong with you?

[@hugo4071]

Do you really have to tell us that? c'mon

[@andrewnicholas9672]

No

[@randombullshitwithhalfachr774]

Well, it’s the bottom comment. I see why.