Even with that, there's no reason for the mistakes in these pieces. There are odd 7th chords in those pieces with voicing in the horns/altos that I genuinely thought were wrong notes until we looked closer at the score. Worse yet they don't make harmonic sense, as they don't resolve down like basic part writing says you should, and it's not some advanced jazz chord that actually sounds good to make some odd sort of sense. Something at the Level 1 and 2 should be church choir easy in harmony! I don't disagree that we are paying too little here, but ouch! These were junk pieces.
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