False Start

False Start features fun melodies that young students will love to play. The piece uses rests effectively to enhance these melodies for beginning bands. Using only the first 6 notes of the Bb scale and basic rhythms, this piece offers a wide range of teachable music performance techniques, including counting, tempo consistency, dynamics, articulations, blend, balance, and style.

Fanfare and Jubilation

A fun and accessible work for any beginning band that is suitable for graduation, ceremonies, and concert performances. With extensive doubling, this is perfect for bands with limited instrumentation. Teaching opportunities abound for tone, pitch, accents and tempo changes. A regal selection appropriate for any occasion.

Fanfare and Patrol

Fanfare for a Festival

Open your concert with this "straight ahead" fanfare. The piece also features a commencement style middle section, which makes it suitable for graduation performances.

Fanfare for a King - William Duncombe

Fanfare for Hope - A. Eric Heukeshoven

Fanfare for Hope was commissioned in honor of the inauguration of Father James P. Burns, the 14th President of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. The fanfare is based on the hymn tune Melita, more commonly known as the Navy Hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save, with the text "My hope is built on nothing less ..." serving as the inspiration for the piece. The opening brass fanfare features the uplifting first notes of the tune transitioning into a legato treatment for the woodwinds and horns. The theme builds as the brass and percussion eventually return leading back to the original fanfare. The music ends triumphantly with the entire ensemble joining in celebration.

Fanfare Supernova

Open your beginning band's very first concert with this bold new fanfare by popular composer Larry Clark. Like a supernova, your band will explode right from the start with this forceful new piece that sounds much more difficult than it is to play. Fanfare Supernova contains biting fanfare-like harmonies, though it only contains the first six notes of the Bb scale and the most difficult rhythms in the winds are quarter notes.

Fanfare: Generation Next - Zachary Cairns

Fanfare: Generation Next was written in honor of retiring director of Bands at Camp Hill Senior High School, Mr. Dean Zirkle. See the musical rendering of the name "DEAN" constructed with notes D, E, A, and "neighbor tone" for N. This bright and aurally stimulating piece is full of movement and life. Students won't be able to get enough of this work.

Fantasia for a King

Brilliantly scored and cleverly constructed, this treatment of the familiar Christmas Carol "Good King Wenceslas" is symphonic in scope and breadth. As usual with Thurston, the harmonies re sophisticated and rhythmic interest is maintained with shifting meters and accents. Every player seems to get a variant of the tune to play and the scoring a is expert and witty throughout. Duration: 4'20" Keys: Eb, Ab Range: Trumpet - A; Horn - F; Trombone - G

Fantasy on "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

This fresh interpretation of the Christmas standard will develop your player's expressive and technical abilities while still engaging and delighting audiences. Not your usual holiday selection, this fantasy also works well as a concert, contest or festival opener or closer. Beginning with a chorale statement of the original hymn, the ensemble soon encounters an expanded percussion section, changing time and key signatures, unique rhythmic patterns and various musical styles, while individual players are challenged with syncopation and dynamic demands. A truly inspiring and rewarding composition for holiday concerts, contest or festival.