SKU: WJ.ABW2402
9 x 12 inches.
From the beginning, this new work for developing band grabs on and doesn't let go! If you don't like snakes get ready, the sidewinder is equal parts spooky as it is awe-inspiring, and this twisty-turning new piece by Composer Matthew R. Putnam is no exception!
SKU: TV.136
ISBN 9781894096201.
A 20 minute K-3 musical about pets and pet owners responsibility. You can perform the entire musical, or you can choose your favorite songs to perform at an assembly. Casting is flexible, so you can perform this with one or more classes. The teacher's guide includes reproducible dialogue/lyric pages, reproducible vocal scores, piano accompaniments, costume patterns, and has actions and choreography written directly in the score. Sing about cats, dogs, bunnies and snakes. This is the cutest musical that you'll ever perform with K-3 children! Now comes with performance / accompaniment CD.
SKU: HL.14019970
SKU: CL.011-3703-01
Furious and fun! This energetic debut publication by Matt Conaway will challenge your developing band to play rapidly contrasting styles, articulations, and dynamics while facing their fear (or love!) of snakes. Exciting percussion parts, driving ostinato rhythms, and an unexpected ending will captivate your musicians and audiences!
About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series
The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.
SKU: HL.14067472
SKU: PR.114419850
ISBN 9781491135808. UPC: 680160681044. 9 x 12 inches.
Both a spectacular concerto for saxophone, and a dramatic tone poem on Roman mythology, QUICKSILVER is a 23-minute concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble by one of the sax literature’s most commissioned and admired composers.Through worded captions as well as gorgeously expressive tone painting, Movement 1 depicts the birth and childhood pranks of Mercury, Movement 2 shows him escorting souls to the gates of the Underworld, and Movement 3 is a phantasmagoric finale portraying Mercury as messenger amid the conflicts of other mythological figures. There are many YouTube performances available, both in the original version with Wind Ensemble, and with Piano.In addition to being another name for the element mercury, “quicksilver†is used to describe something that changes quickly or is difficult to contain. My concerto of the same name was inspired by the Roman god Mercury, as well as the mercurial nature of the saxophone: unpredictable, very lively, and volatile. Mercury (known as Hermes in Greek mythology) is best known for his winged shoes, which allowed him to fly swiftly as the messenger of his fellow Olympians. Mercury had other duties too, including serving as the god of merchants, travelers, and tricksters; he also ushered souls of the departed to the Underworld.Quicksilver tells three tales of the Roman god. The first movement (Antics of a Newborn God) opens with the birth of Mercury; after he takes his first steps, he toddles around, gleefully looking for mischief. He stumbles across a herd of cows that belong to his brother Apollo; Mercury slyly lets the cows out of their pen before toddling onward with his mischief-making.In the second movement (Guiding Souls to the Underworld), Pluto, god of the Underworld, bids Mercury to bring him fresh souls. The movement begins with death-knells tolling for humans who are about to die; Mercury picks up these souls and leads them down to the gates of the Underworld.The third and final movement (Messenger of Olympus) depicts Mercury as he is busily running errands for various gods and goddesses. We first encounter him mid-flight as he dashes to earth to find Aeneas, a Trojan lieutenant who had been run out of Troy by the invading Greeks. Aeneas is on a quest to find land on which to establish a new city that would eventually become Rome. While traveling, he is distracted from his quest when he meets the beautiful queen Dido. They live together for many years before Mercury intervenes; he chastises Aeneas for giving up on his quest and persuades him to pick it up again. As Aeneas mournfully resumes his journey, we hear Dido perish of a broken heart. Mercury then takes to the skies to seek out Perseus, who is preparing to kill Medusa, the hideous gorgon who has snakes for hair and a gaze that turns those who catch her glance into stone. Mercury advises Perseus on how to slay Medusa and lends Perseus his sword to do the deed. We hear Perseus victorious in the beheading of Medusa, after which Mercury takes to the skies once more to fly home to Olympus.
SKU: BT.9781408104729
ISBN 9781408104729. English.
A songbook bursting with stimulating play based activities to teach first steps in phonics. Full of brilliant ideas for getting children interested and involved in music with an engaging and entertaining presentation.
