Fun for all!! The chorale style opening soon turns into a rousing funky-jazzy-gospel riff-style roof-raiser that will have your audience tapping along. It's nice for the concert band to get the opportunity to play something 'jazzy' once in a while and you know the audience will love it as much as the band does.Plenty of opportunity to study jazz-style phrasing in the concert band interesting Percussion parts a catchy tune and good linear motion for all move GETTIN' GOSPEL to the 'top of the list'. The only danger here is that the band might like it a little TOO much and want to play it every day.

STAMPEDE!!! takes us back to an old American West of longhorn cattle-drives chuck wagons campfires and trail songs.Based on several authentic cowboy songs STAMPEDE!!! opens at dawn (birdcalls included) with the ?Cowboy?s Gettin? Up Holler?. Lively fiddle and harmonica motifs and an eloquent scoring of ?Good-bye Old Paint? are just part of this contribution to Grade 3 concert band literature by Mike Hannickel. ?The Chisholm Trail? (a true cowboy classic) figures importantly at the beginning and in a driving re-harmonization leads to the thrilling conclusion.

This is a 7-minute powerhouse from start to finish. Show off those great swing dance moves! Includes: At the Hop Bandstand Boogie Gettin' in the Mood It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Jailhouse Rock. Available: SATB SAB 2-Part IPAKC and ShowTrax CD

Richard Saucedo has created an attention-getting fanfare that's packed with raw energy. This exciting yet playable work is a perfect choice to let your band open a concert with dramatic flare and confidence. Dur: 1:45 (Grade 3)

Based on Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho this upbeat swing arrangement is a guaranteed crowd pleaser. Modest range and technical demands make it easy to focus on style in your teaching. The band even has a chance to put their hands together (and consider getting the audience involved as well!). Characteristic of Andrew Balent the piece works with varying instrumentation and is easy to put together.

Perfect for getting away from the usual march sound without excluding one from your program this creative work adds several interesting twists to the familiar formula. Written primarily in the lydian mode the piece opens with a soft and playful dance-like melody. A strong trio and surprise ending compliment this exciting composition. An ideal festival work.

The Beatles landmark animated film has been released again and a new generation is getting to know timeless hits like this one.

What is the top secret method for getting the most out of your youngmusicians? There is no guaranteed secret method. However you can motivate all musicians with Spy Flix which puts a fun spin on the ‘secret agent music’ typical of the great Hollywood spy movies. Turn your otherwise routine band practice into Music 007 with Spy Flix.

If you're looking for an appealing march that will make your band sound more full and mature look no further! This Eric Osterling concert march is ideal for getting any performance off to a solid start.

Third Movement of A Tribute to Arthur Delamont-Imagine a band far off in the distance marching towards you - the music soft at first becomes louder and louder the red capes of the band swaying in the wind getting closer and closer. It was this image that inspired Flying Colors. Famed bandmaster Arthur Delamont always programmed a march in his concerts and the hallmark of his band was their red capes. This work starts very softly with a distant snare drum beat. The trumpets enter quietly with the melody and with each new melodic entry the music grows and intensifies to a roaring finish. This is a fresh new take on a march and is sure to please players and audiences alike! Dur: 3:10

Your band will love getting acquainted with Mexican Pictures a suite in four movements based on Mexican folk music. The first movement El Butaquito is based on a very lively folk-song of the same name and is characterised by its many contrasting rhythms. The second movement Romance Mejicano creates a peaceful and romantic atmosphere. The title of the third movement Ballaviejo means ‘Antique Dance’ in which the word antique refers to the rhythms that were taken to America by Africa’s black population. La Charreada the final movement depicts the popular Mexican Rodeo where the action in the arena is usually supported by instrumental ensembles the so-called ‘Mariacchi’.

Everyone knows Berlioz' famous 'Symphony Fantastique ' and now here's an opportunity for your band to explore another gem from this important composer. The sheer simplicity of this lovely music and pastoral feel will make a wonderful change of pace in your holiday program. It's a gentler side of Berlioz' music that is well worth getting to know.

Score-The suggestion that I write my autobiography was made at a time when anyone who did not write one risked being called eccentric. It became and still is a major sport among the oldsters. Some of the contemporary books are goodreading indeed. One of the best of them is the result of an enormous research job as is brought out in the introduction to the work. Imagine spending long hours and traveling many miles to find out about oneself: I am sure Iwould be one of the first to be utterly bored by the subject. It was not so easy however to dismiss the whole idea as my friends presented it.The only answer I could think of with any degree of enthusiasm was this one written purely for whatever pleasure it could give. My own part of the pleasure is mostly in utilizing the musical language of the concert band with its apparently inexhaustible colors and its fabulous vitality.The form(if the term has any right being here) is seven short pictures each about two minutes long of my own personal seven ages. The two-minute idea may be the result of the loudspeakers spread all over the hotel in Arizona where thepiece was composed. There was no getting out of ear-shot of those two-minute gems - in the dining rooms around the swimming pools by the putting green everywhere-but I honestly do not believe any of them crept into what I waswriting. I do not believe I paid much more than passing attention to them.Part One:I. 1894: Cherry StreetII. 1899: South OmahaIII. 1900: Corn Cows and MusicThe three of my seven ages inPart One took us to the legal end of my youth. Gathering up my unspectacular belongings including my entire fortune of less than two hundred dollars I swooped down on New York for no more reason than that it was New York and hada street in it called Broadway. The music borrows two or three rhythms from the era but the only note-for-note quote is what the bugler at Camp Funston played every morning while we put on our shoes. Later when we get to Paris

Par PASTORE CARMINE. / Niveau : 2 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Concert Band