Chris Ferguson knows how to write a march! Accessible and superbly geared as an intro of the march style, Boulder Ridge March has everything you and your ensemble need for success.
This free download includes two click track recordings, one with a click…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Chris Ferguson
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
With hints of the medieval, Childgrove has everything a developing band could want. Several solo and tutti sections allow for players to explore their musicianship while melodies and countermelodies flow throughout the band.Program NotesCommissioned by The…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Frederick Speck
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Composer Chris Ferguson draws from his many years of experience teaching younger students to write a first-six-note piece that will take your students on a music journey to other worldly places. Strong melody content for even the youngest of beginners.
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Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Chris Ferguson
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Dance Toccata combines continuous rhythmic motion, varied textures and colors, and motives imbued with strong dance-like features in a work that is energetic and bold. Though the underlying current of pulsation is hardly ever interrupted, there are also…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Frederick Speck
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Sprightly and full of life from the start, Fanfara dazzles the ears with quick syncopations being passed around the ensemble at a dizzying rate. These short, syncopated figures occasionally fade to the background, allowing for longer, more lyrical lines to…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Frederick Speck
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Fantasia on a Russian Hymn is based on the popular choral work 'Salvation is Created.' The simple, strong, arching melody from this Ukranian chant creates the backdrop for this contemporary setting which employs the broad color palette of the woodwinds and…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Frederick Speck
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Fantasia on a Southern Hymn Tune is based on 'My Shepherd Will Supply My Need' from Southern Harmony. In this setting, the music weaves a gentle, rocking melodic figure that builds in strength before receding once again to gentle calmness. Though a concise…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Frederick Speck
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Introduce your beginning students to the march form with this fun, tuneful and easy to play new march from composer Chris Ferguson. A perfect warm-up march for your next concert or festival performance.
Grade Level: 1 Copyright: 2022 Publisher: Excelcia Music…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Chris Ferguson
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
This little march is perfect for teaching march style to beginning players. Using only the first 6 notes of the Bb scale, this march has ample opportunity to introduce fundamental techniques to get students ready for the next level. We know you will enjoy…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Chris Ferguson
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Based on a simple English ballad, Frederick Speck spins out The House Carpenter in his dynamic, perpetual, minimalistic fashion, keeping the listener's interested with ever-changing textures.Program NotesNear the end of the nineteenth century, Francis James…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Frederick Speck
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications