Joseph Compello Gypsy Dance Analysis

The next piece, Gypsy Dance, was written by Joseph Compello, and published in 2004. Mr. Compello discovered his love for music at the age of eight while watching the Centennial Celebration Parade in his hometown of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. When he saw the way the trumpets in the marching band flashed in the sun and heard how they sounded, he immediately fell in love with music. Not long after that parade, Joseph’s father, who had recently gotten a new job at a factory in Baltimore, managed to scrape together enough money to buy him his first ever trumpet. When talking about the months following this event, Joseph described them as such: “Every night after that my father would come home from work, and the first question out of his mouth was, ‘Did you practice?’ ” The answer was always yes. By the time he had reached eleventh grade, his band director, Clarence Wroblewski, recommended him for a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory School. After graduating, he then studied music at Peabody Conservatory and received his Master’s Degree from Towson University. He taught in elementary schools for thirty-one years and composed many pieces for his students. In 1994, Andrew Balent -
After about half of the piece, the tempo slows dramatically, the volume dropping with it, as the bass clarinet becomes the only bass line, and the clarinets play a calm, soothing version of the main melody that is heard throughout the piece. Another quarter of the piece goes by before the tempo resumes its earlier speed, returning to its previously tumultuous levels. Close to the end, there are multiple sections where the lower instruments play some quick runs - which are just moving quickly through a bunch of notes-ending the piece on one such