Bert Appermont

Open Scores 1

Welcome to the world of creating with groups.
This score book Open Scores contains five creation assignments with open scores for many ensembles.
Open Scores is a supplement to the basic book Time to Create 2: Creating with Groups. In that book, you explore the world of creating together by means of 50 creation assignments. We think it is important that you can get started immediately with ready-made material for many instrumentations. That is why we developed this supplement with 5 assignments from the basic book.
Playing creatively is addressed in this score book in two ways.
In the first place, the tone material offers the conductors/group supervisors opportunities to creatively adapt the scores to the group compositions. After the explanation and the concrete assignment, after all, you will find tone material for many ensembles:
- pianos: quatre mains with optional 3rd piano part
- guitars: trio or quartet
- winds: duo or trio with piano, quartet or variable wind ensemble
- strings: duo or trio with piano/guitar, quartet or string ensemble
- choir: SAB or SATB with piano
- percussion ensemble
The conductor/group supervisor can play smoothly with that multitude of materials. For example, the wind volume can be used for a wind duo with piano, but also for three wind players with piano or for a (youth) orchestra. It is also possible for several wind players to play the same part. All different transpositions and octave shifts are available.
The string volume is also composed according to this principle, where the (optional) viola part can also be played by a violin.
Secondly, the open scores invite the musicians to play creatively. Time to Create is a fan of the statement You are not going to play what is on the score, are you? by pianist-composer Franz Liszt. It is great when the musicians and their supervisors use the great freedom of Open Scores without hesitation and make things their own.
Happy playing!