SKU: TA.TSPB-44

In Mainstream Mallets, Jason Hammond-Wood has compiled over 20 short, 2-mallet solos with optional piano accompaniment to challenge more experienced middle school students while offering high school percussionists more performance opportunities.

All selections are familiar tunes, including classical favorites such as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Anitra's Dance (from Peer Gynt), and The Barber of Seville. Also included are nonclassical melodies like The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Entertainer, and On Wisconsin (the university's fight song).

All pieces are playable on xylophone, vibraphone, or marimba, and two of the solos are adapted to be performed as duets! The optional piano accompaniment may be performed with a pianist, or by using the provided audio accompaniment tracks.

Mainstream Mallets includes these 24 pieces:

On Wisconsin | J.S. Hubbard and Charles D. Rosa | (Med-Easy, :35)
The Happy Farmer | Robert Schumann | (Med-Easy, :51)
Bourree | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:51)
Infernal Galop | Jacques Offenbach | (Med-Easy, 1:06)
Sonatina | Muzio Clementi | (Medium, 1:07)
Hungarian Dance No. 5 | Johannes Brahms | (Medium, 1:47)
Pizzicati | Leo Delibes | (Med-Easy, 2:07)
Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:33)
The Barber of Seville | Gioachino Rossini | (Medium, 1:22)
The Royal Fireworks | George Frideric Handel | (Medium, 1:19)
Anitra's Dance | Edvard Grieg | (Medium, 1:40)
The Entertainer | Scott Joplin | (Medium, 2:10)
Spring Season | Antonio Vivaldi | (Medium, 1:47)
The Stars and Stripes Forever | John Phillip Sousa | (Medium, 2:12)
Badinerie | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Advanced, :57)
The Chromatic Galop | Franz Liszt | (Medium, 1:19)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Paul Dukas | (Med-Advanced, 1:43)
Trepak [Russian Dance] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Med-Advanced, 1:10)
Turkish March | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | (Med-Advanced, 1:52)
Csardas | Vittorio Monti | (Med-Advanced, 1:44)
Back Home Again | James F. Hanley | (Medium, 1:18)
Raindrop | Frederic Chopin | (Medium, 1:45)
Bourree [Duet Version] | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:53)
Sleeping Beauty [Duet Version] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:35)

Mainstream Mallets ships as a fully-bound book with a sleek cover design by Bob Beck of Montreal's Design Society. Also included are reference recordings of each solo, PDF parts for duets, PDF parts for the piano accompaniment, and audio tracks with piano only, so that players can perform with just the piano accompaniment.

SKU: HL.44013239

Xylomania is a superb new exciting solo work for the xylophone player. The composer has kept the concert band accompaniment easy andlightly scored, so that the soloist can excel in this piece. The characteristic Allegro Vivace offers the xylophone player the opportunity to show off his or her virtuosity. Why not showcase your Xylophone player with this great new solo work.

SKU: HL.49013335

ISBN 9790001121873. German.

Das Spiel wurde sowohl mit liedhaften Formen als auch mit neuen Ausdrucksmitteln aus dem experimentellen Bereich musikalisch gestaltet. Besonders die Grenzbereiche von Singen und Sprechen ermoglichen reizvolle Aspekte des musikalischen Ausdrucks. Die graphischen Ausarbeitungen einzelner Teile geben genugend Improvisationsfreiheit und sollen zur schopferischen Mitgestaltung anregen. Die Moglichkeiten der Wiedergabe reichen von der Schattenspieltechnik bis zur szenischen Wiedergabe. Die einzelnen Nummern lassen sich jederzeit nach den Gegebenheiten einrichten. Dabei konnen vokale Stellen durch chorisches oder solistisches Sprechen ersetzt, einzelne Instrumentalstimmen ausgespart oder durch die Einbeziehung beliebiger Instrumente verstarkt werden.' (Karl Haus) Diese drei Spiele bieten vor allem Kindern ab 6 Jahren, die bislang wenig Kontakt zur szenischen Darstellung hatten, leicht zu bewaltigende Vorlagen und fuhren sie geschickt in die unterschiedlichen Notationsmoglichkeiten bis hin zur graphischen Notation von Gerausch- und Toneffekten ein.

SKU: HL.49013332

ISBN 9790001105941. German.

Das Spiel wurde sowohl mit liedhaften Formen als auch mit neuen Ausdrucksmitteln aus dem experimentellen Bereich musikalisch gestaltet. Besonders die Grenzbereiche von Singen und Sprechen ermoglichen reizvolle Aspekte des musikalischen Ausdrucks. Die graphischen Ausarbeitungen einzelner Teile geben genugend Improvisationsfreiheit und sollen zur schopferischen Mitgestaltung anregen. Die Moglichkeiten der Wiedergabe reichen von der Schattenspieltechnik bis zur szenischen Wiedergabe. Die einzelnen Nummern lassen sich jederzeit nach den Gegebenheiten einrichten. Dabei konnen vokale Stellen durch chorisches oder solistisches Sprechen ersetzt, einzelne Instrumentalstimmen ausgespart oder durch die Einbeziehung beliebiger Instrumente verstarkt werden.' (Karl Haus) Diese drei Spiele bieten vor allem Kindern ab 6 Jahren, die bislang wenig Kontakt zur szenischen Darstellung hatten, leicht zu bewaltigende Vorlagen und fuhren sie geschickt in die unterschiedlichen Notationsmoglichkeiten bis hin zur graphischen Notation von Gerausch- und Toneffekten ein.

SKU: HL.14041798

ISBN 9788759818077. 12.5x16.5x1.13 inches.

Set of parts for Per Nørgård's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2008-09) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).

In A Light Hour everything - rhythms and motifs – is based on Nørgård´s special infinity series.

Score: WH30964

Programme note

A Light Hour is for ‘any number of percussion musicians’ (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Each musicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments – vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like. 

The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Nørgård has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (for choir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III. 

Special “tone-feasts” (the composer’s term) – followed by a rest – are an recognizable 
melodic feature of the work.: the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of an hour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) – and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over ...). 

The first 15 minutes have a bright, light character throughout, and alternate between 
rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly 
percussion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.

SKU: HL.49013274

ISBN 9790001104135. German.

SKU: MH.1-59913-064-5

ISBN 9781599130644.

I wrote Galloping Ghosts (A Ragtime March) to conclude a concert of my chamber music in New York City on October 28, 1986. It is the final part of a work called Rags for Divers Players. This work was written to show the variety possible within the standard rag form. I used all the players available for the finale -- two violins, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano. Since this is a rather unusual instrumental combination and not easy to reassemble, I decided to rescore the work for concert band. Galloping Ghosts is written in a standard march form but incorporates many of the syncopations found in ragtime. The uniquely American music called ragtime traces its history to African rhythms brought over by slaves. Over the years this music became welded to European musical forms such as the quadrille and the march. Drums and banjos and the minstrel tradition lent a special flavor, and from all these elements ragtime slowly evolved within the largely unknown black subculture of the late 19th century. In the late 1890's it emerged as a fully developed form in the classic piano solos of Scott Joplin (1869-1917). Joplin's 1899 hit, Maple Leaf Rag, was an overnight sensation and brought ragtime worldwide fame. Ensemble instrumentation: 1 Piccolo, 8 Flute 1 and 2, 2 Oboe, 1 Eb Clarinet, 4 Bb Clarinet 1, 4 Bb Clarinet 2, 4 Bb Clarinet 3, 2 Eb Alto Clarinet, 3 Bb Bass and Bb Contrabass Clarinet, 2 Bassoon 1 and 2, 2 Eb Alto Saxophone 1, 2 Eb Alto Saxophone 2, 2 Bb Tenor Saxophone, 1 Eb Baritone Saxophone, 3 Bb Cornet 1, 3 Bb Cornet 2, 3 Bb Cornet 3, 2 Horn 1 and 2 in F, 2 Horn 3 and 4 in F, 4 Trombone 1 and 2, 4 Bass Trombone, 2 Baritone (B.C.), 2 Baritone (T.C.), 4 Tuba, 1 String Bass, 1 Timpani, 1 Xylophone, 3 Percussion 1, 3 Percussion 2.