Adelante Winds Concert Worksheet

For High School Students

Student Name: ______________________________________

1. As LaNetra said, the French horn seems a bit out of place in the wind quintet. Is there an instrument
that you would choose instead of the French horn? Why? (for example, to change the sound colors)

2. What is Adelante Winds doing to keep you engaged during their performance that you should also
be doing when you’re playing chamber music?

3. Steal Away is an African American Spiritual, do you know any other spirituals or other compositions
written by African American composers?

4. What is a fugue?

5. How did Adelante Winds communicate during Homage to Duke?

Worksheet created by ACMC April 2021

6. Paquito D’Rivera wrote Vals Venezolano for his friend Antonio Lauro. Is there someone in your life that
inspires you to write a piece of music? Why? What would it sound like?

7. Libertango means “free tango.” In which ways did this piece sound “free?”

8. Which piece would you be most excited to play? Why?

a. Umoja by Valerie Coleman-Page
b. Contradanza by Paquito D’Rivera
c. Steal Away by Valerie Coleman-Page
d. I Ride on an Old Paint by William Grant Still
e. Vals Venezolano by Paquito D’Rivera
f. Homage to Duke by Jeff Scott
g. Malaika by Fred Onovwerosuoke
h. Libertango by Astor Piazzolla

9. Many composers started writing music when they were your age. Have you ever been interested in
writing music? Why or why not? Have you already written anything?

Worksheet created by ACMC April 2021