There will be no paper copies of forms or calendar dates this term; it will all be sent online.

Torquay Boys Grammar School (TBGS) are cleaning the rooms, toilets, and spaces we will be using after the boys leave school and before we go into the space.

Following government guidelines if the student or anyone in their household is feeling unwell, have a temperature or are in quarantine please do not attend TSDMC.

Students are required to bring a face mask or face covering to the music centre and to wear it inside when using communal spaces.

TBGS boys who attend TSDMC and are already on site must come to the bistro where the TSDMC manager and staff will supervise the student in socially distanced year group bubbles to follow TBGS risk assessment guidelines. Students are not to use any rooms unless given permission from TSDMC staff.

There will be no tuck shop or drinks available to staff or students for this term.

All Students to arrive 4.35pm onwards for a 4.45pm start in rooms. Students must not come onto site before 4.35pm. If students arrive by car they must wait in them until that time, if you arrive by bus or are dropped off please arrange with the TSDMC Manager where you need to wait if early.

Please check in at the welcome desk outside the Bistro as all people attending TSDMC will be on a track and trace list.

TSDMC staff will be using a contactless thermometer to test the temperature of everyone attending TSDMC. Anyone found with a temperature will be sent home straight away.

Everyone will be asked to hand sanitize on arrival on site.

We will be using three entrances into the building to avoid groups crowding in corridors, only the Concert Orchestra will be going into the Bistro hall as usual.

Percussion and Reed Ensemble will use the entrance next to the Bistro and use the corridor to your usual rooms ER1 for Percussion and ER3 for Reeds.

All other groups have had to be moved. They will enter the building up the outside staircase just past the flagpole by the main entrance. (you can see the stairs from the welcome desk outside the Bistro).

The Flute choir are back in G4, a room they used to use as it is larger than the one used last year, but to get to the room students must use the outside stairs and go along the corridor.

The Concert brass are in H1 first classroom on the right at the top of the stairs.

The Youth Strings are in H4 the first classroom on the left at the top of the stairs.

The Fast forward group are in H3, the second room on the left.

Parents who normally stay with their children can do so if it is necessary for their wellbeing, but a drop off is preferred. All parents are asked to wear face masks at all times when inside the building and at the check in desk.

Toilets are found on the top corridor for those students in those bubbles and the toilets on the corridor by the bistro for those on the ground floor.

On entering the music group bubble all people must hand sanitize.

A register will be taken as usual and students will be given a music stand each to use. This will be labelled with their name and kept as the stand for them to use this term. No one else will touch this as it will go into individual cases in a group bag. Music stands will be socially distanced according to music mark guidance for different instruments. Music Centre teachers will advise on how to set the rooms up following latest guidance.

Music will be given to students in a plastic wallet and it is their responsibility to bring it to all rehearsals.

No one should share music, an instrument or touch each other’s music or instruments.

Music teachers will advise on tuning, but students will tune their own instruments.

Students of woodwind or brass instruments a bell cap needs to be worn over the instruments bell to capture moisture. Please contact your instrument teacher if you need advice on this.

Rooms should be left as they are found except the Concert Orchestra. Please leave chairs set out in the bistro hall, so the cleaners know which chairs students used.

Students pack up their own instruments and music stands into cases.

TBGS boys from each group are asked to help take music stand bags back to the storage cupboard as no one else is allowed in that department building (in accordance to TBGS risk assessment). TSDMC staff supervise these students from outside the building and provide hand sanitizer when finished.

Music in plastic wallet

Music stand if bringing your own to use.

Face mask

Drink

Beginner/pre-Grade 1

Violin (open strings) | Cello/Double bass (open strings)

Flute | Clarinet in B♭ | Oboe (or any mid-range instrument in C) | Bassoon

Trumpet in B♭ | Horn in F (F and Bf fingering) | Trombone (or other bass instrument in C)

Tenor horn/Alto sax in E♭ | Euphonium/Baritone

Bass (or any large) drum | Glockenspiel

Piano beginner

Transposed score

Grade 1-3

Violin | Cello/Double bass

Flute | Clarinet in B♭ | Oboe (or any mid-range instrument in C) | Bassoon

Trumpet in B♭ | Trombone (or any bass instrument in C) | Horn in F

Tenor horn/Alto sax in E♭ | Euphonium/Baritone

Bass (or other large) drum

Piano

Intermediate score

Grade 4-5

Violin | 2nd Violin (based on viola) | Viola | Cello | Double bass

Flute | Clarinet in B♭ | Oboe | Bassoon

Trumpet in B♭ | Trombone (bass clef) | Trombone (treble clef) | Horn in F | Tenor horn/Alto sax in Eb

Euphonium/Baritone | Bass in B♭ | Bass in E♭ (treble clef) | Tuba

Bass drum

Full score | Piano accompaniment

(original theme composed by Ron Grainer)

NOTES FROM THE ARRANGER

By Iain Farrington

Flutes, Oboes, Clarinets, Alto Saxophones, Bassoons, Trumpets, Horns, Euphoniums,

Tenor Horns, Trombone, Tuba, Bass in Eb

Timpani, Percussion

Violins, Violas, Cellos, Double Basses

Guitar, Ukulele

Piano

Universal notes for all instrumental arrangements:

All parts have been designed to enable mixed-ability groups to perform together. A certain amount of simplification has been required to adapt the pieces for mixed-ability. A successful rendering of each piece would require the essential melodic material and bass line which are often in the Grades 4/5 parts, especially in the piano.

There are scores for each difficulty level plus three other scores for each piece:

1.         Grouped according to ability

2.         Grouped according to instrument type

3.         ‘Short score’ in C, grouped according to ability

There are three ability levels – beginner, intermediate (Grades 1-3) and Grades 4-5.

•          Flute parts can be played by the violins

•          Oboe parts can be played by the flutes and violins

•          Trumpet parts (in Bb) can be played by the clarinets

•          Violin parts can be played by the flutes (except when in the lowest register)

•          The ‘percussion’ part is a beginner part and can be played on any drum. It adds a simple rhythm layer to each piece. Timpani and full percussion parts are for intermediate or Grades 4/5

Violin | Cello | Guitar | Ukulele

Flute | Clarinet in B♭ | Alto saxophone | Oboe | Bassoon

Trumpet in B♭ | Trombone | Trombone in B♭ | Tenor horn | Horn in F | Euphonium

Percussion

Piano

Intermediate/Grade 1-3:

Violin | Viola | Cello | Double bass | Guitar

Flute | Clarinet in B♭ | Alto saxophone | Oboe | Bassoon

Trumpet in B♭ | Trombone | Trombone in B♭ | Tenor horn | Horn in F | Euphonium | Tuba

Timpani | Glockenspiel | Snare drum/Triangle/Bass drum/Cymbals

Piano

Grade 4-5:

1st Violin | 2nd Violin | Viola | Cello | Double bass

Flute | 2nd Flute | Clarinet in B♭ | Alto saxophone | Oboe | Bassoon | Bass in B♭

Trumpet in B♭ | Trombone | Trombone in B♭ | Tenor horn | Horn in F | Euphonium | 2nd Euphonium | Tuba

Timpani

Piano