Amazing Grace

Classic beauty is so often enhanced by simplicity. This arrangement is written for the beginning band level, but we suspect that this stunning setting will be used by band directors at all educational levels. This is a hymn scoring with universal appeal.

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Amazonia - Chad Taylor

Take your audience on a voyage to the vast, unexplored areas of the Amazon Rainforest, where most of the world's isolated tribes dwell. Through the use of call-and-response, repetitive rhythmic grooves, and percussion instruments native to the region, this piece was written to celebrate the diverse and lively music culture that exists within the indigenous groups who call the Amazon Rainforest home. (4:40)

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America the Beautiful - Samuel A. Ward / arr. Robert W. Smith

A solitary timpani roll opens this sweeping work. With dignified majesty, pays tribute to our great nation. In a very easy-play version, this Robert W. Smith scoring allows the patriotic anthem to be performed by the youngest or least experienced ensemble. It also serves as a quick-rehearsing title for those last-minute concert needs. Simple yet effective! (2:51)

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America, the Beautiful

The Smith and Story duo has scored this lush rendition to correlate with the first year of the BAND EXPRESSIONS curriculum, though it will add a patriotic flare to any program. This new arrangement of the classic work includes great textures and harmonies for your beginners. (2:01)

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America, the Beautiful - Samuel A. Ward / arr. John Kinyon

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America: Sweet Land of Liberty

Every program will benefit from this revered patriotic melody, conventionally scored for your beginning band. (1:49)

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America: The Spirit Lives On! (for Band and Optional Choir)

As a musical testament to the shared beliefs that we as Americans hold dear, this montage of four patriotic standards celebrates our democratic way of life, while also reflecting on the often-times high price that we as a nation must pay in order to maintain these treasured freedoms. Included in this arrangement (in the order that the titles appear) are ; ; ; and . This sparkling arrangement can be performed with your young band alone or with optional choir [SATB (33016), 3-part mixed (33017), or 2-part (33018)] as a rousing concert finale! (4:30) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

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American Heroes March - Mark Williams

Stir the fires of patriotism with this new original work from Mark Williams. The composer has cleverly juxtaposed strands of "America" with his own original melody, and the result is stunning! If you're looking for something different from a straight ahead patriotic medley, delivers!

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American Jazz Suite - Allen Vizzutti

This spectacular work by trumpet virtuoso Allen Vizzutti features your trumpet soloist in the jazz idiom without losing accessibility to your Concert Band students. The opening begins with a trumpet cadenza using half valves, bending notes and timbre changes accompanied by stop chords in the band. An easy swing section follows with a groove established by the low brass, low woodwinds and percussion. The up tempo second movement features the soloist using a plunger mute. There's great interplay between the soloist and band in this exciting feature for your star trumpet player!

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American Mountain Medley

The folk music of Appalachia reflects the unwavering spirit of those early settlers who toiled and sacrificed to build the foundations of this country. Combining "Sourwood Mountain" and "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain," their story is told in the songs of love, rivers, and mountains that are still with us today. Your students will love Douglas Wagner's . (1:30)

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