SKU: CL.026-4226-01
This exciting and very popular David Shaffer composition will sound great when you group performs this outstanding arrangement from the Barnhouse Build-A-Band Series! Designed for groups with severe instrumentation issues or for very small bands, it is playable as long as you have the four main parts covered by the instruments of your choice. Includes optional piano, percussion and mallet percussion parts. Full of energy and solid sounding, Last Ride of the Pony Express is perfect for any concert or contest situation and your students will love performing it.
About Build-A-Band Series
The Build-A-Band Series provides educational and enjoyable music for bands with incomplete or unbalanced instrumentation. Written using just four or five parts (plus percussion), these effective arrangements will work with any combination of brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments as long as you distribute the parts so that each of the five parts is covered. All of the publications in the Build-A-Band Series have been arranged to be playable with any instrumentation as long as each part is used: 1st Part, 2nd Part, 3rd Part, 4th Part, and Bass Part. (Please note: In some of these arrangements the 4th Part, and the Bass Part are the same, making it possible to play those arrangements with only 4 parts.)
SKU: CL.026-4228-01
Ed Huckeby's Overtura has long been a popular favorite of bands around the world, and this solid sounding arrangement from the Barnhouse Build-A-Band Series is sure to be a favorite with bands that have instrumentation issues or a small number of players. Will sound impressive as long you have the four main parts covered by the instruments of your choice and it is sure to impress your audiences at any concert or contest performance. Includes optional piano, mallet percussion and percussion parts which help enhance the overall sound. Outstanding!
SKU: CL.026-3976-01
Adapted by the composer for the Barnhouse Build-A- Band Series from his original concert band composition of the same name, Wild Horse Canyon is wonderful program music for very small bands suggesting the imagery of wild horses roaming free in the Red Rock canyons of Utah. Playable by any instrumentation as long as the four basic yet very interesting parts are covered. Perfect for any concert or festival performance!
SKU: SU.90810031
Instrumentation: 2fl, picc, 2ob, 3cl*, 2bs-cl, 2bn; 2a-sax, t-sax, b-sax; 4hn, 6tpt, 3tbn, 2euph, 2tba; timp, 6perc, string-bass (*at least 2 per part) Duration: 9' Study Score: available for sale (#90810030) Composed: 1998 Published by: Subito Music Publishing ... a high-energy score .... The music drives hard from its opening to a lullaby-like woodwind passage about two-thirds of the way through. The dreaminess is dispatched by the arrival of a snare drum that slowly ratchets the excitement level back to that of the work's opening. --Fanfare Magazine.
SKU: SU.90810030
Instrumentation: 2fl, picc, 2ob, 3cl*, 2bs-cl, 2bn; 2a-sax, t-sax, b-sax; 4hn, 6tpt, 3tbn, 2euph, 2tba; timp, 6perc, string-bass (*at least 2 per part) Duration: 9' Full Score & Parts: available for sale (#90810031) Composed: 1998 Published by: Subito Music Publishing ... a high-energy score .... The music drives hard from its opening to a lullaby-like woodwind passage about two-thirds of the way through. The dreaminess is dispatched by the arrival of a snare drum that slowly ratchets the excitement level back to that of the work's opening. --Fanfare Magazine.
SKU: BC.24439
SKU: CF.SPS83F
ISBN 9781491156414. UPC: 680160914951. 9 x 12 inches.
This music was originally written for string orchestra. In this band version, the key has been changed to Bb major from A major. In my opinion, the music sounds gentler in Bb major. I like to see images that reflect on the water. In this piece you will find the same situation between the melodies in the different parts. Please look carefully at each part and try to find the reflections. Enjoy the dialogue of the phrases. .This music was originally written for string orchestra. In this band version, the key has been changed to Bb major from A major. In my opinion, the music sounds gentler in Bb major.I like to see images that reflect on the water. In this piece you will find the same situation between the melodies in the different parts. Please look carefully at each part and try to find the reflections. Enjoy the dialogue of the phrases. .
SKU: BC.43989
SKU: CF.SPS83
ISBN 9781491156407. UPC: 680160914944. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: CL.026-4536-01
Gustav Holst’s First Suite in Eb For Military Band is universally considered a band masterwork. This Build-A-Band edition places it within reach of those bands with severely limited or awkward instrumentation, making it the perfect selection for your small band with good players to sound great! This fast middle movement from the suite teaches young musicians to articulate contrasting staccato and legato passages. Optional parts for guitar, piano, bass and percussion can fill some missing holes in the band. (Also available in the Build-A-Band series: the first and third movements of this suite.).
SKU: CL.026-4323-01
Ed Huckeby’s Build-A-Band arrangement of Angela’s Song is arranged for solo and small band. Solo parts are included for all of the usual band solo instruments plus the usual Build-A-Band instrumentation which allows it to performed with Soloist plus other instruments so that the four essential band parts are covered. Optional Percussion and keyboard parts can add to the overall effect. A great way to show off your best player even with a very small band.
SKU: CL.026-4661-00
Take your musicians on a cultural exchange trip to Canada, France and the United Kingdom! You can play any of these three national anthems individually, or pair them with the Star Spangled Banner (available separately in Build-A-Band format) as an opening travel-log at your next concert. Lots of ways to teach across the curriculum with these easy, great sounding arrangements meant for smaller bands with limited instrumentation. Hosting foreign exchange students from these countries? Honor them at your concert with their national anthem! Please stand, remove hats and join in the presentation of the national anthems!
SKU: CL.026-4129-01
A delightful piece with a Spanish flavor that is sure to be a highlight of any concert performance and will allow very small bands and bands with severe instrumentation issues to sound just like the big guys. Will sound big and powerful as long as you have the four main parts covered. Includes optional tympani, percussion and piano parts which can enhance the sound even further. A real toe-tapper!
SKU: CL.026-4392-01
Based on the traditional carol Ding, Dong, Merrily on High, this festive arrangement for bands with unique instrumentation is the perfect opening or closing statement for your holiday concert! The sparkling introductory theme is contrasted by the dramatic middle section of The Ukrainian Bell Carol making this selection musically rewarding for a variety of age groups. Sure to be a favorite. Let the holiday season begin!
SKU: CL.026-4661-01
SKU: AP.4895CB1XC
UPC: 029156979992. English.
To solve all of your musical concerns at the time of graduation, Jack Bullock has scored this complete package containing a Fanfare, Processional, The National Anthem, and a Recessional. This version is the Concert Band arrangement. Also available is the string orchestra arrangement which can be further enhanced by adding any winds and percussion up to and including full orchestra (00-BFO9904).
SKU: XC.ICB2201FS
12 x 9 inches.
Before I Go to Sleep is a sensitive and musically expressive piece from composer Jason K. Nitsch. This piece has already received its premiere at the prestigious Midwest Clinic. Beautiful arching melodies and rich harmonic movements are sure to pull at the heartstrings of your audiences.
SKU: XC.ICB2201
SKU: CL.026-4457-01
The opening movement from the Holst First Suite is now available in the Build-A-Band format. This work is contrapuntal in nature and teaches the importance of independent playing. The flashy 16th note runs are scored for the mallets and snare drum, bringing the technical challenges within your students’ abilities. A perfect selection to make your small band with limited instrumentation sound great! Optional parts for guitar, piano, bass and percussion fill out the band. Choose the best classic contest literature for your students!
SKU: CL.026-4679-00
Get your band into the holiday spirit with this unique and very playable work! Carols included are O Come All Ye Faithful, Deck The Halls, Silent Night, and Jingle Bells. You will find this unique arrangement musically and educationally satisfying, and this Build-A-Band edition is perfect for those ensembles with incomplete or awkward instrumentations. An excellent choice for your next holiday concert, Christmas Bells and Brass will appeal to audience and band members alike, and your band will sound like gold!
SKU: CL.026-4679-01
SKU: CF.SPS78
ISBN 9781491152553. UPC: 680160910052. Key: Bb major.
Festival March is presented in a new edition arranged by Richard Summers. It is a tour de force composition for advanced bands and hearkens back to a bygone era during the golden age of the band movement. Directors and students will hear operatic music from composer Victor Herbert who is best known for his Christmas classic, Toyland. This is a richly scored masterpiece that deserves to return to standard status in concert band repertoire. We are proud to bring you this new setting of this cherished classic.Festival March by Victor Herbert was written for the Pittsburgh Symphony and first performed under Herbert’s direction in Chicago on Dec. 9, 1901 celebrating the 12th anniversary of Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Also known as the Auditorium Festival March, he included it many times for programs of a festival nature. The main theme Auld Lang Syne, a famous Scottish folk song, is incorporated many times along with brass fanfares, interludes and march melodies. This band arrangement is very similar to the original orchestral composition. The missing string parts, the addition of the saxophone section and other band instruments, editing of the superimposed triplets against sixteenth notes, to one or the other, and articulations suitable for the band, were major challenges. The style of early twentieth-century American music is captured here. This arrangement will give band musicians access to a fine piece of music that could only be appreciated by orchestra musicians up to now. Although suitable for many occasions, this piece is a great way to begin or end a December holiday concert.  Notes to the ConductorVictor Herbert’s music can be interpreted in a romantic style, which is the conductor’s responsibility to read in nuance and musicality. The beginning and other triple-tonguing sections of this piece have a March of the Toys quality to it.  The interludes and Auld Lang Syne sections are legato and musical. The March sections can also be shaped musically.About the ComposerVictor Herbert was born in Ireland in 1861 and raised in Germany. When he moved to America in 1886, he joined the Metropolitan Opera as principal cellist and eventually composed many works including forty-three operettas on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I, including Naughty Marietta and Babes in Toyland. Victor Herbert conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904 and then was the conductor of his own Victor Herbert Orchestra. He formed ASCAP with a group of composers in 1914 and was the director until his death in 1924. Among his thirty-one compositions for orchestra, Festival March was a favorite of his and was eventually published by Carl Fischer Music.  .
SKU: CF.SPS78F
ISBN 9781491153239. UPC: 680160910731.
Festival March is presented in a new edition arranged by Richard Summers. It is a tour de force composition for advanced bands and hearkens back to a bygone era during the golden age of the band movement. Directors and students will hear operatic music from composer Victor Herbert who is best known for his Christmas classic, Toyland. This is a richly scored masterpiece that deserves to return to standard status in concert band repertoire. We are proud to bring you this new setting of this cherished classic.About the CompositionFestival March by Victor Herbert was written for the Pittsburgh Symphony and first performed under Herbert’s direction in Chicago on Dec. 9, 1901 celebrating the 12th anniversary of Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Also known as the Auditorium Festival March, he included it many times for programs of a festival nature. The main theme Auld Lang Syne, a famous Scottish folk song, is incorporated many times along with brass fanfares, interludes and march melodies. This band arrangement is very similar to the original orchestral composition. The missing string parts, the addition of the saxophone section and other band instruments, editing of the superimposed triplets against sixteenth notes, to one or the other, and articulations suitable for the band, were major challenges. The style of early twentieth-century American music is captured here. This arrangement will give band musicians access to a fine piece of music that could only be appreciated by orchestra musicians up to now. Although suitable for many occasions, this piece is a great way to begin or end a December holiday concert.  Notes to the ConductorVictor Herbert’s music can be interpreted in a romantic style, which is the conductor’s responsibility to read in nuance and musicality. The beginning and other triple-tonguing sections of this piece have a March of the Toys quality to it.  The interludes and Auld Lang Syne sections are legato and musical. The March sections can also be shaped musically.About the ComposerVictor Herbert was born in Ireland in 1861 and raised in Germany. When he moved to America in 1886, he joined the Metropolitan Opera as principal cellist and eventually composed many works including forty-three operettas on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I, including Naughty Marietta and Babes in Toyland. Victor Herbert conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904 and then was the conductor of his own Victor Herbert Orchestra. He formed ASCAP with a group of composers in 1914 and was the director until his death in 1924. Among his thirty-one compositions for orchestra, Festival March was a favorite of his and was eventually published by Carl Fischer Music.  .
SKU: CL.026-4128-01
David Shaffer's energetic Fire Dance has been a very popular band piece for many years, and David's new arrangement for the Build-A-Band Series retains all of the fun and excitement of the original but allows it to sound great with very small bands or bands that have instrumentation issues. Includes multiple percussion parts which greatly enhance the piece. As is normal for this series, it includes an optional piano part.
SKU: CL.026-3977-01
Warren Barker's classic band arrangement of Danny Boy is one of the all-time best sellers in the Barnhouse Concert Band catalog. Andy Clark has taken Warren's great arrangement and adapted it for the Barnhouse Build-A-Band Series in a way that retains all of the charm of the original. It's playable with any instrumentation as long as the four basic parts are covered.
