SKU: HL.44010632
UPC: 884088504212. 9x12 inches. Mike Hannickel and Amy Adam.
A new concept in beginning band literature! Your group can promote character education with a performance of Three Billy Goats Gruff. An important âanti-bullyingâ message is embedded in the easy and humorous narration. A soundtrack-like format makes it a different experience for your players as well. The specific focus on character education may qualify its purchase for funding outside your music budget. Best of all, Three Billy Goats Gruff is really fun! This is the first in a series of ethics-driven pieces for beginning band by Mike Hannickel and Amy Adam.
SKU: HL.44007654
UPC: 884088310097. 9x12 inches.
An expressive new work for the young band's concert or festival! Lovely, simple counter-lines accentuate the flowing and drifting melody. An ideal choice for a festival contest, Walden Pond allows each section to be important and expressive in assorted ways, letting you clearly show the adjudicators your young band's range of capabilities. As a concert piece it works as a lovely contrast to the other works you choose to program. (Grade 1).
SKU: HL.44007661
UPC: 884088310165. 9.0x12.0x0.365 inches.
Patriotic melodies such as America the Beautiful, Yankee Doodle, You're a Grand Old Flag and more are artfully intertwined in this exciting new opener by James L. Hosay. It's an outstanding addition to Grade 1 literature that will work in almost any concert situation. If your school does an occasional school-wide flag salute assembly, it would be great exposure for your band to open the ceremony with this creative arrangement. (Grade 1-1/2).
SKU: HL.44004243
UPC: 073999042436. 9x12 inches.
SKU: HL.44004586
UPC: 073999045864. 9x12 inches.
The musical heritage of the United States is rich with folk songs from across the country. We can understand a great deal about society, culture and traditions through these folk songs. The folk tune used in this work has had many lives, from early church singing, to pub songs, to a marching song.
SKU: HL.44010597
UPC: 884088495312. 9x12 inches.
A descriptive delight! Let's all go to the amusement park! Clowns, bumper cars and fun, fun, fun! Young musicians love to interpret music that conveys a visual image. Each delightful section lets your band do exactly that. And, if necessary, the movements can be performed as stand-alone pieces. Directors of young bands will understand the confidence this provides as you program your concert. Better than cotton candy!
SKU: HL.4008752
UPC: 196288197720. 9.0x12.0x0.337 inches.
âWind Machinesâ can refer either to the various machines that are driven by the wind, or the soaring sound of a wind band. In a cinematic style, this composition takes us high in the sky, soaring above the majestic landscape in a glider. The bold rhythms, effective scoring and artful interplay between sections gives this piece the sophisticated sound and intensity of a much more advanced piece. Dur: ca. 2:20.
SKU: HL.1455428
UPC: 196288209591. 9.0x12.0x0.345 inches.
You'll find this a real winner for first-year students. Only the second clarinets and second trumpets play more than the first five notes and they only extend one note to written B natural.
SKU: HL.1455420
UPC: 196288209515. 9.0x12.0x0.374 inches.
A clever, humorous composition to aid in the teaching of changing meters, TIME BANDITS uses nothing more complex than eighth notes in its exploration of time. Suitable percussion, particularly temple blocks and ratchet, provide appropriate accompaniment.
SKU: XC.DCB2406
9 x 12 inches.
Full Force Fanfare is an electrifying and dynamic tour de force for young band by composer Tyler Arcari. Pure excitement from the start leads to a wonderful short lyrical-style section in the middle making Full Force Fanfare the Full experience. They'll want to play this one over and over!
SKU: WJ.ABW2401
Right out of the gate, Untamed is an intense new work for young ensembles! Composer Jay Coles has a unique and refreshing sensibility for the concert band that is sure to resonate with young musicians. Your students will love this one.
SKU: WJ.ABW2408
Works in 3/4 at this level can end up being the fan-favorite on your concert program and in your classroom! Composer Jorge Vargas brings us a fun, accessible, and catchy new work for the developing band that will have your musicians asking to play this over and over! This is going to be a hit!
SKU: WJ.EBW2405
This fun new work for beginning band uses accessible percussive patterns as a hook! A great work to show off your percussion section while the winds have plenty of opportunity for success. Joshua Hobbs has a winner in this one!
SKU: XC.DCB2407
This new ballad from composer Larry Clark is written perfectly for the beginning concert band. Engaging parts and lines across the ensemble will make this one they ask to play over and over. Whether for contest/festival or regular performance, Emerald Sky has something for everyone.
SKU: XC.HCB2407
Regal, triumphant, and magnificent! This new work for young band is unique in all the best ways! Sitting at a tempo and style that is not as common for this grade level, Matthew R. Putnam has given us a throwback to the Appian Way! So much to teach and so much fun, this one is a knock-out!
SKU: AP.36-50100339
UPC: 659359683879. English.
Using only the first six notes taught to beginners, Across This Land by Kevin Hilbun is suitable for performance midway through the first year of instruction. It is surprisingly sophisticated, with subtle hints of Shenandoah and This Land Is Your Land (listen closely!). (2:00).
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SKU: AP.36-50100325
UPC: 659359542008. English.
Colorful percussion and unusual instrumental effects will bring a true sense of amazement to your audience as the narrator tells the story of an alien invasion and its aftermath. Alien Invasion from the Dark Planet was written by Brian Monroe. (5:00).
SKU: KJ.WB529F
UPC: 084027053072.
Enhance your bandâ??s articulation technique with this stately march. Articulation Station features simple quarter note rhythms and a limited range, providing a pefect setting to display accented, slurred, and separated notes. Correlates with Tradition of Excellence Book 1, page 12.
About Tradition of Excellence: Excellence in Performance
Excellence in performance is a concert band repertoire series correlated with the Tradition of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method by Bruce Pearson and Ryan Nowlin. The compositions in the series correlate to a specific page in Tradition of Excellence Books 1, 2, or 3 and reinforce and expand on skills and concepts introduced in the method./Selections include exciting parts for every player, grade-appropriate cross-cueing, accessible ranges and rhythms, creative percussion writing, electric bass and rehearsal piano parts, and full conductor scores with rehearsal suggestions, program notes and composer biographies. In addition, the Grade 1 works provide an Advanced Snare Drum part for percussionists who have achieved a higher level of ability, playable simultaneously with the more basic Snare Drum part to facilitate differentiated learning.
SKU: KJ.WB529
UPC: 084027053065.
SKU: KJ.WB535
UPC: 084027053201.
Tantrum depicts a full-blown emotional meltdown with stomping rhythms from percussion, grumpy melodies from the low brass, and whiny cries from the woodwinds and trombones! Engaging contrapuntal lines will help develop independent playing in your young band all while staying within a limited range of pitches. Correlates with Tradition of Excellence Book 1, page 30.
SKU: KJ.WB534F
UPC: 084027053195.
Shiver Me Timbers takes the ensemble to the high seas under the Jolly Roger. Inspired by the composerâ??s life-long fascination with pirate tales and the seafaring lives of pirates, this exciting piece in ¾ time takes you on a rollicking adventure. Yaaarrrgh!!! Correlates with Tradition of Excellence Book 1, page 33.
SKU: KJ.WB534
UPC: 084027053188.
SKU: KJ.WB535F
UPC: 084027053218.
SKU: AP.98-RWS225875
SKU: AP.98-RWS232600
Composed in the style of an Olympic processional, Greet The Champions celebrates your program, school, or community's many victories. This work features memorable melodies and rhythmic patterns, and is written to be accessible to any beginning band. It is appropriate as a concert opener any time of the year. Letâ??s celebrate!
SKU: AP.98-RWS231100
Inspired by Theodore Rooseveltâ??s famous speech, The Man in the Arena, To Dare Greatly is the perfect opener for your beginning bandâ??s first concert! This energetic work features bold fanfares, clever non-traditional harmonies (using only six notes!), and superbly scored ensemble moments that will make your beginners sound like experienced musicians and feel like rock stars!
SKU: AP.98-RWS190501
A Rocket To The Sun is an inspiring concert opener or closer for your beginning band! Written to commemorate NASAâ??s Parker Solar Probe, this piece offers the opportunity to connect students and audiences with current scientific discovery about the Sunâ??s corona and solar weather. Using the notes of the Bb concert scale and keeping the clarinets under the break, A Rocket To The Sun will reinforce technique and contrasting performance styles.
SKU: AP.98-RWS204675
SKU: AP.98-RWS221100
Man Against Machine, inspired by the folk tale of John Henry, offers an opportunity for your students to practice musical storytelling. This legendary story is an opportunity for SEL (social emotional learning) in your classroom as you discuss grit and work ethic with your students. The educational possibilities are endless with this well written and crafted composition for the young band!
SKU: AP.49116
UPC: 038081563411. English.
This version of Escape from Thunder Mountain by Scott Watson is part of our Alfred 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 4 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 4-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. The tropical island volcano, Thunder Mountain, has lain dormant for years. As a party of adventurous researchers work atop the legendary mountain, it begins to shake with pre-eruption tremors! Check out this original composition by Scott Watson! (4:40) Percussion Accompaniment Track Downloads: with click without click.This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
