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Grade 1 - Score Only-A new concept in beginning band literature! Your group can promote character education with a performance of Three Billy Goats Gruff. An important “anti-bullying” message is embedded in the easy and humorousnarration. A soundtrack-like format makes it a different experience for your players as well. The specific focus on character education may qualify its purchase for funding outside your music budget. Best of all Three BillyGoats Gruff is really fun! This is the first in a series of ethics-driven pieces for beginning band by Mike Hannickel and Amy Adam.

Grade 1 - Score Only-Here's a memorable and humorous contrast for your winter concert. A gregarious student or staff member in the guise of “Beethoven returned” suddenly appears on your concert stage in this comedy skit for band. The musicbegins as an innocent Christmas medley but by the time it's over “Beethoven” owns your band and you the director are vanquished from the stage. Of course there are lots of laughs along the way.

Grade 3 - Score Only-The lilting joy of a compound triple meter piece is a great way to add contrast to your concert. “Sketches on an Olde English Song” keeps that wonderful 6/8 momentum rolling along nicely. As bands start moving intomore challenging pieces it's important that the musicians develop facility with 6/8 and 9/8 time. This arrangement is a great way to take your group to the next level. Dur: 4:30

Grade 2 - Score Only-Bring something different to your holiday concert this year with this richly contrasting medley of wassailing songs that hearken back to the close of the Middle Ages. Ancient melodies in medley carefully arranged for the Grade 2band makes this an effective choice for your holiday festivities. Concluding with the ever popular “We Wish You a Merry Christmas ” this delightful grouping of carols will work anywhere in the performance even as thecloser. (Grade 2)

Grade .5 - Score Only-Your young players will enjoy the mystery and grandeur of this descriptive piece about the isolated 12th-century Norman keep. Once a strong fortress it is now little more than some stone walls and bits of rooms. What history hasbeen made here? The colorful percussion and rich harmonies are expressive and intriguing. There's something for everyone in this stately original. Majestic!

Grade 4 - Score Only-Angular and energetic! The driven tempo and constantly changing meters create an unrelenting rhythmic masterpiece from a few well-developed fragments. John Fannin's command of orchestration ensures that you can find balance andblend in a maelstrom of activity. This one will leave your audience breathless. It's challenging and worth it! Dur: 3:00

Grade 1 - Score Only-An expressive new work for the young band's concert or festival! Lovely simple counter-lines accentuate the flowing and drifting melody. An ideal choice for a festival contest Walden Pond allows each section to beimportant and expressive in assorted ways letting you clearly show the adjudicators your young band's range of capabilities. As a concert piece it works as a lovely contrast to the other works you choose to program. (Grade 1)

from Annie Get Your Gun-(from Annie Get Your Gun). Only Irving Berlin could write a showstopper like this one! Arranged in a contemporary show style with easy-to-learn parts and fast-moving lyrics you will set the mood for a dynamic show. Great opener! Available: SATB SAB 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:45.

Letter from Sado is an exciting new piece for young band based on a Japanese haiku of the same name. Sado refers to Sado Island in Japan in which various artists religious and military leaders were sent in exile many years ago. The island has historically had a strong community of taiko drummers and as such the piece incorporates optional homemade taiko drums. Blackshaw writes: To capture the idea of interpretation and the concept of reading between the lines the students are invited to become decision makers about particular sections in the music. For example the opening and closing sections of the piece use the same material which is a selection of repeated melodic figures.The students themselves decide how to play these figures as individuals in small teams and then as a whole band. Their decisions include ideas regarding tempo (how fast?) dynamics (how loud?) and articulation (smooth short or hard?). To inspire them we use the haiku poem; i.e. the opening section invites the students to play the material as if it were a 'stormy wild sea' and the closing section invites the students to play the same melodic figures but this time draw their inspiration from 'Heaven's River ' or as we know it the Milky Way. In-between there is an elaborate heavily textured section that becomes increasingly powerful. The music doesn't rest harmonically until the whole band plays in unison. These multiple layers of sound represent the many thoughts and ideas that would have surrounded those individuals sent to Sado Island in exile the final unison is representative of their own breakthrough experience sending them on a pathway to inner peace and acceptance. Embrace your players' creativity offer them your trust and see how far Letter from Sado can take your band!

Easy flexible ensemble material in four parts. Suitable for almost any combination of brass and/or woodwind instruments.Titles include: Kalinka; Hernando's Hideaway; For Your Eyes Only; La Mer; Money...Money Money and Go Tell It On The Mountain Easy to medium difficulty.

selection for wind orchestra. In this selection of well-known James Bond melodies, arranger Johan de Meij has availed himself of the following themes successively: All Time High (from Octopussy, Roger Moore?s last role as secret agent 007),James Bond Theme (from the film Dr. No), For your eyes only and Goldfinger (from the same movie, starring Sean Connery). The most important musical contributor to the James Bond movies has been composerJohn Barry (1933 2011). Apart from the above-mentioned themes of Goldfinger and Octopussy, he has also added to his name the themes of Thunderball, From Russia with Love, Moonraker and Diamonds areForever. He also wrote the music for other famous films such as The Deep, Midnight Cowboy, Born Free and Out of Africa.

Gregorian chant is one of the earliest forms of notated music using free flowing rhythms and simple melody. In Old Churches composer Michael Colgrass uses these elements to create an aura of voices echoing in themonastery. Using easy graphic notation students have a fun and creative way to explore sound production along with the compositional process. (Includes score and parts.) (5:20)CD-ROM Now Available!Designed toenhance the musical experience the CD-ROM for Michael Colgrass' Old Churches includes video clips of the St. John's Abbey monks singing photos of various sacred spaces such as Ayer's Rock in Australia as well as ahistory of standard Western notation. In addition this CD-ROM enables students to explore graphic notation and composition with built-in notation software Finale Notepad®. Guaranteed to engage your students and provide addedinsight into this unique work.04002010/$14.99 (CD-ROM)04002702/$60.00 (Band set with CD-ROM)