816 is a warm-up designed to develop the beginning and intermediate percussionist. It starts off as an 8-on-a-hand exercise and builds gradually to an accent-tap call-and-response variation that isolates each hand. Crush Street starts off with a huge unison…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Aubrey Simmons
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Based on the bugle call "Taps," this is a powerful composition honoring a young sergeant who lost his life in Iraq. The opening fanfare of Face of Honor is reminiscent of Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" with the thunderous interjections by the battery…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Robert Rumbelow
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Sonatine Op. 71 No. 1 is one of three sonatas for guitar by Italian guitar master and composer Mauro Guiliani. It is divided into three sections/movements: the first a theme and variations, the second a minuet, and the third a rondo. Works as a nice stepping…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
James Moyer, Giuliani
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Scored for organ and percussion quartet, Soundscapes explores many of the sonic possibilities of the pipe organ and accentuates these with a wide array of battery percussion, gongs & other metallic instruments, and keyboard percussion.
Grade Level: 3…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Robert Rumbelow
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications