Conflict of Wills: Concert Band Score & Parts

Hilbun gives you genuine musical content without forcing your students into technical corners they're not ready for. The rhythm challenges feel purposeful rather than arbitrary, and that expanded percussion palette creates an orchestral richness that makes your band sound bigger and more sophisticated than Grade 2 typically allows.

Exciting and direct. Conflict of Wills charges forward with bold energy and sparkling orchestration that keeps your students engaged and your audience awake.

Grade 2 concert bands ready for something with real personality. This works whether you're programming a full contest season or building a concert that impresses parents and adjudicators alike.

• Lock the articulation in your wind sections during the eighth note passages. Crisp, uniform tonguing on those figures transforms them from technical hurdles into musical strengths.
• Give your percussion section a separate rehearsal run-through. With more instruments in the mix than students may be used to, clarity about who enters when prevents the typical Grade 2 percussion pile-up.
• Shape the bold moments dynamically. Resist playing all fortissimos at the same volume; let the scintillating sections breathe with actual contrast.

Program this as an opening number if you want an immediate statement, or close your set with it for a powerful send-off. The three-minute length fits any concert structure, and the contest/festival designation makes it an asset if you're preparing for adjudication.

• Reading eighth note and eighth rest combinations in various meters
• Navigating expanded percussion instrumentation and independence
• Ensemble balance across multiple voice parts with rhythmic precision
• Dynamic contrast and shaping in contemporary concert band writing