Grainger tells us that Arrival Platform Humlet conveys the sense of “Awaiting the arrival of belated train bringing one’s sweetheart from foreign parts; great fun! The sort of thing one hums to oneself as an accompaniment to one’s tramping feet as one happily…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Danny Deever started life as a poem from the “Barracks Room Ballads” of Rudyard Kipling, a major cultural hero of Percy Grainger’s. Originally scored the for small male unison chorus, large male choir, and a large orchestra including saxophones and euphonium…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Destruction and Ascension is a through-composed piece in two distinct halves, meant to represent things that are destroyed then ascended back into creation. Destruction is violent and incessant music consisting of loud driving rhythms across the ensemble,…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Cy Miessler
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Originally scored for 5 solo voices, a double mixed chorus, 3 orchestral groups of brass, strings, and mixed mandolins and guitars, Father and Daughter is one of Grainger's most exciting works. It may be performed as a standalone work or as a set called "…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
from "The Jungle Book" Cycle
This 5-movement suite contains half of Grainger’s Jungle Book Cycle, including Morning Song in the Jungle, The Inuit, The Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack, The Beaches of Lukannon, and .Program Notes"My Kipling 'Jungle Book' Cycle…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
This setting of Molly on the Shore re-assigns most of the “knuckle-buster” woodwind parts to 4 players on 4 marimbas, treating the marimbas like a soli group in a concerto grosso. This arrangement for 8 hands on 4 marimbas and band is a Grade 5, well-suited…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Explosive in volume and energy throughout, Napalm Basket is a tasteful, challenging, and creative percussion quartet which is also an enormous amount of fun to play.Program NotesI noticed that there weren't really any pieces out there that are just ridiculous…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Cy Miessler
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Storm is an exciting and beautiful marimba duet that takes the listener through the journey of what it’s like to experience a storm in 3 phases: Approach, Storm, and Calm. Providing a challenge for the performers, it is an enormous amount of fun to play and…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Cy Miessler
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Three Tragic Ballads is a Grade 6, well-suited for the accomplished collegiate wind band. The Three Tragic Ballads - “Danny Deever,” “The Three Ravens,” and “Father and Daughter” - can be played as a set or individually.Program NotesPercy Grainger (1882-1961…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music