SKU: AP.26693S
UPC: 038081300085. English.
An exciting work for beginners, Ralph Ford's Strange Pursuit will hit the mark with contrasting styles and a variety of articulations. Best of all, it's a great choice for enhancing your students' knowledge of chromatics. There'll be no question that it's an up-tempo, high-energy crowd pleaser! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.35335S
UPC: 038081409801. English.
Look up the word Gizmo, and you will find references to its origin in the slang used by United States Marines and Navy personnel when referring to a gadget of unknown origin or design. Ralph Ford's inventive work for your first-year players uses a ratchet in the percussion section to musically depict a gizmo. Great fun! (1:30) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: CL.012-3959-75
Following his incredible success with Divinum Mysterium, composer James Swearingen has created another powerful and expressive setting of a wonderful classic from the past. This time he has selected the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams as his source of inspiration. A written description fails to do justice to this well-crafted work of musical reverence. The music speaks for itself! This has our highest recommendation!
SKU: CL.026-4895-01
The famous march Seventeen Come Sunday from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ iconic Folk Song Suite has been masterfully arranged by Ed Huckeby for the Build-A-Band series, allowing bands with limited instrumentation to enjoy the uniqueness of this classic work. Every original melodic line, chord and nuance is included so it can be performed in its original style, even by ensembles with very limited instrumentation. This is a MUST HAVE for any band library. A true band standard!
SKU: CL.026-4907-00
The beautiful intermezzo, entitled My Bonny Boy, from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ iconic English Folk Song Suite has been skillfully adapted by Ed Huckeby. This Build-A-Band edition allows bands with limited or unusual instrumentation, or sparsely-sized to enjoy the unique character of this band classic. The two folk tunes incorporated in this movement provide tremendous educational opportunities for bands to develop contrasting stylistic skills while rehearsing and performing a classic masterwork. Superb!
SKU: CL.026-4908-00
Folk Songs From Somerset, the third movement from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ English Folk Song Suite is a classic march incorporating four traditional folk songs: Blow Away The Morning Dew, High Germany, The Tree So High and John Barley’s Corn. Using both 2/4 and 6/8 meters, Vaughan Williams has created a unique educational opportunity for ensembles to contrast duple and compound meter. Creatively adapted for the Build-A-Band series by master composer/arranger, Ed Huckeby, this masterful work is now available for ensembles with unusual or limited instrumentation. Your students and audiences will love this English band classic!
SKU: CL.026-4907-01
SKU: CL.026-4908-01
SKU: AP.49217S
ISBN 9781470648619. UPC: 038081569413. English.
This version of Dark Adventure by Ralph Ford is part of our Belwin FLEX offerings and is designed with maximum flexibility for use by any mix of instruments---wind, strings, and percussion, including like- or mixed-ensembles with as few as 5 players. The suggested instrumentation and a customizable Teacher Map will help you plan out how to best assign parts to suit your ensemble's needs. The 5-part instrumentation will support balanced instrumentation of the lower voices. It also comes with supplemental parts for maximum flexibility. With the purchase of this piece, permission is granted to photocopy the parts as needed for your ensemble. A percussion accompaniment track is also available as a free download. String parts have been carefully edited with extra fingerings and appropriate bowings to support students in mixed ensembles playing in less familiar keys. A musical adventure through mysticism and magic. This unique setting offers a wide variety of dynamics, textures, and styles while remaining playable. The momentum is quickly established, and your students are part of the journey. This is a super piece that will capture the imagination of students and listeners alike. Percussion Accompaniment Track Downloads: with click without click. (3:25).
SKU: AP.49217
ISBN 9781470648602. UPC: 038081569406. English.
SKU: AP.38358
UPC: 038081430911. English.
Vaughan Williams traveled during 1903 to 1906, collecting folk songs first-hand from residents. Four of the fifteen titles he published for voice and piano in the original volume comprise Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties, including The Lost Lady Found, The Lark in the Morning, Bushes and Briars, and Ward, the Pirate. Scored for concert band exactly as they were first published, with much of the accompanying material also being drawn from RVW's harmonizations and stylistic interpretations. Experience these cherished authentic folk songs creatively complied for your concert band. (3:30) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: KJ.WB262
UPC: 8402700126.
Inspired by the melody of the hymn, Immortal! Invisible!, this composition is a powerful and expressive masterpiece. With contagious rhythmic figures and frequent meter changes, students will find this piece highly rewarding to perform. Immortal! Invisible! is correlated with Standard of Excellence Book 2, page 29.
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.WB237
UPC: 8402700015.
Pioneers...the ones who lead into the unknown. Pioneers..the explorers of new worlds and new ideas. Young musicians will enjoy exploring their talent, venturing into the sounds of a new work from a composer from a distant land. With this exciting new piece from one of Australia's shining stars, students will discover things about themselves, about the composer, and about each other.
SKU: AP.48177
ISBN 9781470650742. UPC: 038081553801. English.
Indisputably one of the most significant concert band masterworks from the early 20th century. Respecting the dignity and historical significance of this band masterwork, this is a complete and unabridged scoring. Guaranteeing accessibility for developing bands, level-appropriate instrumentation, ranges, rhythms, key signatures, and meters have all been followed. Must-have repertoire for every library. A contest winner! (12:30) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.48177S
ISBN 9781470650759. UPC: 038081553818. English.
Indisputably one of the most significant concert band masterworks from the early 20th century. Respecting the dignity and historical significance of this band masterwork, this is a complete and unabridged scoring. Guaranteeing accessibility for developing bands, level-appropriate instrumentation, ranges, rhythms, key signatures, and meters have all been followed. Must-have repertoire for every library. A contest winner! (12:30) This title available in MakeMusic Cloud.
