Each set in the Incredibly Flexible Class Band Series features Rock style compositions suitable for players of one to three years experience. All pieces have fully scored rhythm section parts - Keyboard, Guitar, Bass guitar & Drum Kit with Melody and…
Style:
Flex Band
Composer:
Stephen Mannering, Brian West
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Del Borgo has provided a new setting in which to display the beauty of this famous melody. The first presentation of Simple Gifts is a chorale-like treatment by a mixture of woodwinds which are joined by the rest of the band as a series of variations further…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Elliot Del Borgo
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
With visions of a marionette show with slightly uncontrolled and quirky movement of the skeleton-like puppets, resulting in a near 'comical' dance sequence, Skeleton Dance is a great work to introduce young players to playing a chromatic scale.Program NotesIn…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Brian West
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Slane (more popularly known as 'Be Thou My Vision') is a dramatic piece for middle school concert band set in motion by a driving, syncopated figure in the timpani which is soon joined by an equally syncopated, repeated figure in the F Horn/Trombone Baritone…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Elliot Del Borgo
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
My grand children delight me. From the youngest to the eldest I am overwhelmed by the wonder of being “Pa”. My Mum would sing to us when we were young; songs with a Scots lilt and accent. I remember especially her singing to my little sister and seeing the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Radiance perfectly describes veteran composer Larry Clark’s powerful new work for concert band. An excellent choice for festival or contest, Sonic Radiance is a bright and melodic piece. With many opportunities to teach form and structure and a wonderfully…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Larry Clark
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Soren Bushi is a traditional Japanese fishing song originally used to keep the fishermen in time together as they send the boats out to sea, haul the nets, fold the sails and load the catch. With the lyrics coming from an old fishermen's dialect from the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Tania Owens
Publisher:
Brolga Music
As the title implies, trumpet calls are heard throughout the ensemble in this high-energy work for wind band. As always, McCarthy does a wonderful job pitting a beautifully lush melody over driving, syncopated ostinatos. Sound the Call is not your typical…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Daniel McCarthy
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
As the title suggests, Southern Chorale & March opens with a charming church-like chorale, followed by a march using the themes stated in the opening. Very accessible rhythms and ranges for intermediate school students utilizing easy syncopation.
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Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Murray Houllif
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Spring Showers is designed to evoke the sensation of a coming, drenching and then passing of the rain. The steady flow of eighth notes in the piece provide a sense of consistent shower, beginning small, building as instruments are added, and finally quieting…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Karen K. Robertson
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications