SKU: HL.44007692

UPC: 884088310486. 9x12 inches.

What a great energetic way to open your Christmas concert and bring focus to the joyful sounds of the season! Themes from Spain, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England and France lead us on a delightful Christmas tour, and James Curnow's outstanding orchestration technique ensures that all the musicians have rewarding parts to play. You'll enjoy the melodic twists and turns as the consistent unifying tempo charges implacably toward the exciting finale. (Grade 4).

SKU: CL.023-4532-01

Opening with a percussive fanfare, this cleverly crafted medley includes Ding Dong Merrily on High, Pat a Pan, and Jingle Bells (what holiday arrangement would be complete without it?). Lots of sectional soli moments encourage independence of performance. Unique percussive sounds bring this arrangement alive with all of the sounds of the holiday season. And as the title implies, it can be played in exactly 2 minutes! Happy holidays!

SKU: HL.4003914

UPC: 888680013189. 9.0x12.0x0.063 inches.

Composed in a single driving tempo, this dynamic and concise work provides plenty of excitement and flash. The playful main theme is accompanied by a rhythmic pattern alternating between 4/4 and 3/4. In addition, some quirky dissonant passages and percussion feature spots help to spice things up. Dur: 2:15.

SKU: CL.RWS-1901-00

Feature your percussion section with this exciting composition for beginning band by Brian Bankston. Repeated rhythmic figures for timpani, tom-toms, shakers, clave, bass drum and crash cymbals create a powerful musical statement that supports the dramatic yet achievable wind parts. Utilizing the first six notes with basic rhythms, this piece will have your band feeling confident and ready to play in any performance setting.

SKU: CL.RWS-2244-01

This sprightly arrangement of the well-known French carol imagines shepherds playing their primitive instruments as they celebrate news of a baby born in Bethlehem. What begins as whispers from the flute and drum grow as word spreads and a fugue-like melody bounces between instruments. The song builds to a powerful climax as the shepherds gather and march down from their pastures together.

SKU: KJ.WB424F

UPC: 084027039816.

Pathway March uses the notes of the Bb scale plus Ab. Young students will really enjoy playing this melodic selection. Solid scoring and ample doublings will ensure a successful performance.

SKU: KJ.WB249F

Explore Australia with this breathtaking composition. Simple aleatoric elements along with singing and chanting aboriginal words provide a unique and dramatic backdrop to the modal melodies and powerful chordal harmonies. Hultgren explores the many paths of traditional Western musical styles while incorporating non-traditional sounds.

SKU: KJ.WB331F

Brilliant, clever and brimming with excitement, another ingenious Himes masterpiece! The objective of Thingamajig is to create a whimsical contraption of sound in the same spirit as the late Rube Goldberg, which appeared as cartoons in the New York Evening Mail. It uses melodic and rhythmic patterns - with help of conventional and unconventional percussion as well as verbal effects from the band members - to convey a unique attempt at inventiveness. The enthused percussion section will use instruments such as a metal pipe, kitchen pans and a bicycle horn.

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.