SKU: AP.50829
ISBN 9781470667641. UPC: 038081586526. English.
Rise of the Bow-Bots is a creative offering by Richard Meyer that will be as much fun to play as it will be to teach. The Bow-bots are alive and invading your orchestra room! This colorful selection is perfect for your students to work on their bow lifts, hooks, and slurs. Very simple note patterns (left hand) will allow young musicians to concentrate on their bowings (right hand), and the minor key and modal harmonies will set their imaginations wild as they picture the rise of Megalift, the Hookinator, and Slurtron. (2:40) Correlates to Sound Innovations, Book 1, Level 4.
SKU: AP.50830S
ISBN 9781470668617. UPC: 038081587493. English. Traditional Fiddle Tune.
This easy tune features all sections with clever rhythmic variations. Readily accessible and as easy to put together as any Bob Phillips fiddle tune arrangement, the traditional melody appears in all sections and may be taught aurally. Though its origin is unknown, Spotted Pony appears to have roots in the Ozarks in Missouri, Arkansas, or Texas. Fiddlers in the early 20th century claim to have learned it from their grandparents' generation, so it most likely has been played since the late 19th century or earlier. (2:20) Correlates to Sound Innovations, Book 1, Level 4.
SKU: AP.50829S
ISBN 9781470667658. UPC: 038081586533. English.
SKU: AP.50830
ISBN 9781470668600. UPC: 038081587486. English. Traditional Fiddle Tune.
SKU: AP.50827S
ISBN 9781470666248. UPC: 038081584850. English.
Now boarding: Flight of the Dynamic Drone, by Jim Palmer! Your first-year orchestra will soar with this exciting piece based on a D drone! Students get to practice intonation while experiencing a wide variety of dynamics. All instruments take flight with the melody and some pizzicato accompaniment. A perfect landing for your first concert. (2:40) Correlates to Sound Innovations, Book 1, Level 4.
SKU: AP.50827
ISBN 9781470666231. UPC: 038081584843. English.
SKU: AP.49505S
ISBN 9781470649753. UPC: 038081570532. English.
You're cool, likeable, and confident. You don't walk, you strut. When you enter a party, a hush falls over the room and heads turn because you have a certain je ne sais quoi! People say you're the bee's knees and the cat's meow. You're Awesome Sauce and this piece is the soundtrack of your life! With its fun, blues-like melody and cool rock beat, Awesome Sauce by Scott Watson is sure to be a player favorite. The limited chromaticism, accessible jazz-esque rhythms, and style-important articulations offer excellent teaching moments for the director. (2:57) Awesome Sauce correlates to Book 1, Level 6 of Sound Innovations for Concert Band. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.49503S
ISBN 9781470649791. UPC: 038081570570. English.
The Dragon Run is a 40 mile winding stream that flows throughout Virginia and empties into the Piankatank River. It is also known as the Dragon Swamp and even just The Dragon. This immense ecosystem is known for its rich wildlife and preserved beauty. Dragon Run by Chris M. Bernotas features strong rhythms, intentional dissonance, contrasting dynamics, and wonderful musical opportunities for all. It echoes the excitement of exploring the views and experiencing the sometimes intense wildlife visitors encountered when journeying along the river and surrounding swamps. (2:26) Correlated to Sound Innovations, Book 1, Level 6.
SKU: AP.49503
ISBN 9781470649784. UPC: 038081570563. English.
The Dragon Run is a 40 mile winding stream that flows throughout Virginia and empties into the Piankatank River. It is also known as the Dragon Swamp and even just The Dragon. This immense ecosystem is known for its rich wildlife and preserved beauty. Dragon Run by Chris M. Bernotas features strong rhythms, intentional dissonance, contrasting dynamics, and wonderful musical opportunities for all. It echoes the excitement of exploring the views and experiencing the sometimes intense wildlife visitors encountered when journeying along the river and surrounding swamps. (2:26) Correlated to Sound Innovations, Book 1, Level 6. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: HL.860559
UPC: 884088167172. 9.0x12.0x0.017 inches.
Explorer Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 11) Using modal harmonies, dynamic percussion sounds and bold melodies, here is a great-sounding piece that your beginning players can really dig into. With nothing faster than a quarter note (except percussion), this will sound terrific with very limited rehearsal time. Dur: 1:30.
About Essential Elements Band Method
About Essential Elements Band Method: Essential Elements Band Method provides a complete system of books and accompanying materials that make the educator's job easier, and the students' learning more thorough and enjoyable. By Tom C. Rhodes, Donald Bierschenk, Tim Lautzenheiser, John Higgens, Linda Petersen.
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.WB534
UPC: 084027053188.
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.
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.WB533
UPC: 084027053164.
Each day presents a variety of experiences. They can be magical, challenging, or surprising. Gabrielle Wojcikâ??s A Wish for Today is an optimistic march that tells a story of the day unfolding before us as more and more instruments join in the music making. It provides your developing band the opportunity to study, develop and perform several basic skills such as tone quality, intonation, small ensemble playing, balance and blend, as well as a variety of articulations and dynamics. Correlates with Tradition of Excellence Book 2, page 8.
SKU: KJ.WB531F
UPC: 084027053119.
Hymns of Freedom, by Quincy Hilliard, is based upon two Negro spirituals, Nobody Knows the Trouble Iâ??ve Seen and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. These two hymns are used in fragments throughout the composition. Contrasting sections of serenity and aggression create an emotional and majestic tapestry. Correlates with Tradition of Excellence Book 3, page 20.