Gackstatter explores the ancient mysteries of the Aztec people with this exciting work for wind ensemble. The driving, percussive multi-meter vigor that characterizes most of the piece is broken up by several free, aleatoric sections, utilizing many special…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gary Gackstatter
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Scored for full band, including large mallet ensemble, this setting uses Grainger’s Lord Melbourne as its wind-setting model. The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare is a Grade 4, well-suited for the mature high school or collegiate band.Program NotesScored for full…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Driving syncopation in the percussion and low brass provide the foundation for the long, soaring melodies in the woodwinds that follow. Roles reverse and eventually the raucous syncopation wins over. Images of soaring above the clouds will keep your students…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gary Gackstatter
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Terra Incognita
As the title implies, you are about to enter a realm of mystery and excitement! Ancient cartographers labeled unexplored regions on their maps as "terra incognita" and in one instance wrote Here Be Dragons, signifying the peril that lay ahead…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gary Gackstatter
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
After a slow & stately opening, the spirit journeys to a place of rhythmic excitement with driving percussion, vocal effects, and long, lyrical lines.
Grade Level: 4 Copyright: 2020 Publisher: C. Alan Publications Category: Concert Band
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Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gary Gackstatter
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Extracted from Grainger's "Jungle Book Cycle," Morning Song in the Jungle celebrates the glory of nature at the beginning of the new day, and reminds us, at least a little bit, of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood,"the opening movement of his Peer Gynt Suite No. 1…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
("Too Much Coffee")
Written to be a percussion showpiece in a Latin style, Nimus Capulus is fast, frenetic, and fun—a challenge for the entire group. With a fugue in the middle section for the woodwinds, optional open percussion improvisations, and brass…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gary Gackstatter
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Before scientists could predict a total eclipse, there were many instances of madness and even death from the chaos caused by the sun disappearing. Path of Totality tries to capture the feeling the ancients must have felt seeing such an omen in the sky: the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gary Gackstatter
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Music for an Imaginary Cartoon
Silly Circus Suite conjures up images of an animated cartoon of a rather low-budget circus, complete with tumblers who are in sore need of more practice, a ballerina who could use a diet, as well as their imaginary audience. A…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gary Gackstatter
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Completed in 1902, Grainger's harmonization of this folk tune captures beautifully the transcendental nature of the text, with masterful use of chromaticism and the Grainger “gliding tones.”Program NotesThe Three Ravens is Nr. 41 of the British Folk-Music…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music