SKU: KJ.WB352
UPC: 8402701689.
You Rock! is based on the familiar rock beat often heard at sporting events. It is composed in a traditional eight and twelve-bar blues progression. There are plenty of opportunities for the percussion section to shine and lots of hand-clapping and knee-slapping to hold the interest and enthusiasm of the entire band. A perfect encore selection! Tom Rudolph and Drew Shanefield are new composers to the Standard of Excellence In Concert series. Both composers are from Pennsylvania. Tom is the Director of Music for the School District of Haverford Township, where Drew is an instrumental music specialist.
About Standard of Excellence in Concert
The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.
SKU: KJ.WB174
A Ceremonial In American Indian Culture Is An Inter-Tribal Gathering Held To Celebrate Traditional Songs, Dances, And Rituals. Ceremonial: Prologue And Dance Brings North American Indian Musical Styles To The Concert Band Medium Through Pentatonic Scales, Characteristic Timbres, Irregular Phrasing, And In The Second Section Of The Work, A Melody Based On An Authentic Folk Song Of The Ute Peoples Of Utah.
SKU: KJ.WB352F
SKU: KJ.WB284
ISBN 9788402700360. UPC: 8402700365.
This crisp march contains all of the key elements of the traditional march and is very accessible for maturing bands. A must have in your band's library!
SKU: KJ.WB246
UPC: 8402700011.
A dazzling overture that will conjure up images of pomp and pride! This composition is written in a traditional ternary form including vibrant tutti sections featuring the percussion, legato themes, colorful harmonies and rhythmic augmentation. Using only eleven notes this overture gives students confidence at an early start and will add a touch of class to any concert.
SKU: KJ.WB175
Song of Tosagata is a skillfully crafted arrangement of an authentic ballad from Northern Japan. Filled with multicultural and inter- disciplinary enrichment possibilities, this delicate and mysterious work features timbres And textures reminiscent of the classic Japanese instrumental trio comprised of the Shakuhachi, Samisen, And Koto. Adding to the arrangement's uniqueness and authentic flavor are optional parts for autoharp (also playable on synthesizer) and template bells, playable on a student-made version of the traditional instrument.
SKU: XC.FCB2103FS
UPC: 812598035957. 9 x 12 inches.
Sound larger than life with this brilliantly scored overture for developing band. Beautifully expressive playing with ample opportunity to teach grace-notes and traditional snaps, Larry has crafted an accessible work for young band that is reminiscent of great band works of the past. Your students will ask to play this one over and over!
SKU: XC.FCB2103
UPC: 812598035940. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: KJ.WB490F
UPC: 8402704857.
The simple melody of this famous hymn is treated to lush harmonizations and searing emotion. In this arrangement, the tune is heard in its entirety three times, each time becoming more impassioned. Between each iteration of the hymn, the composer includes original material that serves to bridge the ardent treatment of the multiple verses. After a change of key, the climax of the work is delayed and extended before the music evaporates back into its simplest and purest form. Amazing Grace is a wonderful vehicle for increasing the musicality of the young intermediate band.
About Tradition of Excellence: Excellence in Performance
Excellence in performance is a concert band repertoire series correlated with the Tradition of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method by Bruce Pearson and Ryan Nowlin. The compositions in the series correlate to a specific page in Tradition of Excellence Books 1, 2, or 3 and reinforce and expand on skills and concepts introduced in the method./Selections include exciting parts for every player, grade-appropriate cross-cueing, accessible ranges and rhythms, creative percussion writing, electric bass and rehearsal piano parts, and full conductor scores with rehearsal suggestions, program notes and composer biographies. In addition, the Grade 1 works provide an Advanced Snare Drum part for percussionists who have achieved a higher level of ability, playable simultaneously with the more basic Snare Drum part to facilitate differentiated learning.
SKU: KJ.WB490
UPC: 8402704856.
SKU: AP.43776S
UPC: 038081496542. English. Traditional.
Written in the style of a fanfare, this piece intertwines three popular holiday carols, Angels from the Realms of Glory, Angels We Have Heard on High, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing to uplift and entertain students and audience alike. Perfect to open your holiday concert! (1:45).
SKU: HL.44007317
UPC: 884088245146. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
This march from Philip Sparke is in the tradition of English ceremonial or concert marches, such as the masterpieces written by Sir Edward Elgar and Sir William Walton. It attempts to continue this tradition with a march for intermediate band that has all the recognizable hallmarks of a ceremonial march, such as broad melodies, counter melodies, and a nobilmente trio. Duration: 5:10.
SKU: KJ.WB318
UPC: 8402701186.
Written as a tribute to the seafaring and shipbuilding traditions of Portsmouth, Virginia, this enchanting and heartfelt composition overflows with colorful sonorities and rich textures. The percussion section has a big role in solidifying temp changes while the flutes are responsible for introducing the main theme. The rich melody moves throughout the band, incorporating several countermelodies and interesting effects in the percussion. The band will want to perform this engaging tune over and over!
SKU: KJ.WB318F
SKU: AI.AMC-WB-003SSC
8.5 x 11 inches.
The 1818 publication of Francis Johnson's A Collection of New Cotillions marks the first known publication of original music by a black composer in the United States. A prolific composer, instrumentalist, teacher and conductor, Johnson led a varied and successful career in an era in U.S. history that was not inviting to black professionals. His musical interests ranged from the contemporary works of Johann Strauss Jr. to traditional, popular dances.The cotillion is a French country dance that was popular in Europe and America in the 18th century. It was originally danced by four couples in square formation and was an important influence in the development of the square dance in the United States. Francis Johnson composed two sets of six piano accompaniments for this dance. The original 1818 publication even included movement instructions for the eight dancers. The short and charming melodies that he composed are a fitting example of popular dance music of the time.This transcription may be performed as a piano solo, with the piano as a non-solistic instrument within the ensemble or without piano at all. If it is to be a piano solo, the other instruments should not play the passages marked “opt. tacet (optional tacet). If the piano will not be treated soloistically, the conductor can have some or all of the “opt. tacet passages played at their discretion. When there is no piano involved in the performance ,all instrumentalists should ignore the “opt. tacet instruction and play everything.
SKU: AI.AMC-WB-003
SKU: AI.AMC-WB-003SCO
11 x 17 inches.
SKU: AP.47448
UPC: 038081545776. English. Traditional British Folk Song.
A fabulous selection for contest or festival, this versatile piece is a sure winner. Based on the Percy Grainger arrangement of the well-known folk song, this setting by Michael Story can be performed by string orchestra alone or with any combination of winds and percussion, up to full orchestra. The first statement of the melody may be played as a solo or by as many 1st violins as are appropriate for your group. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: HL.49019886
ISBN 9790001144797. 9.25x12.0x0.076 inches.
At funeral or memorial services and ceremonies, the traditional, slowly marching funeral music, the Tombeau, still plays an important musical role today. In most cases, such musics were created for a specific occasion, like the death of a prince or an artist. That was the case with this Tombeau for wind orchestra, too: Bertold Hummel wrote it after the death of a fellow composer and friend.Hummel was not afraid of expressing his feelings in a wistfully nostalgic funeral music full of tonal beauty which is close to the musical language of the 19th century with regard to form and harmony.In addition to the score and parts, our edition of this moving piece also contains the particell with which Hummel put down the Tombeau on paper in 1998.
SKU: HL.49019887
ISBN 9790001144803. 9.25x12.0x0.336 inches.
SKU: AP.49435
ISBN 9781470650605. UPC: 038081571386. English.
A must for any regal ceremony. The traditional Pomp and Circumstance has been scored for young full orchestra or strings alone. It includes a processional and the majestic Rondeau from Premiere Suite as the recessional. This arrangement would be an outstanding graduation choice for any level orchestra performing without graduating seniors. A welcome necessary arrangement for every library. (3:45) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.