Fortress Variants - Elliot del Borgo

Forza

Forza means strength. This forceful and aggressive piece uses dynamics and articulations to musically depict strength and fortitude. Accents are used for emphatic effect, particularly in the percussion, and the middle andante section offers a contrasting melancholy mood.

Fracas

Frogs Have Rhythm Too!

This fun piece for the young band will be a favorite of students and parents alike. Full of frog sound effects and bluesy style harmonies and rhythms, it is the tune your students will ask to play every single day.

From This Valley - Gregory Rudgers

A fantasy on the folk song "Red River Valley," composer Gregory Rudgers's stunning new composition ranges from dramatic to lush and lyrical, accented by occasional, whimsical drifts. He employs all of the forces of the modern concert band to their fullest in this symphonic presentation. Ideal for a contest or festival.

Frontier

An open sounding and contemporary piece, Frontier is perfect for your next performance or competition. The work is rhythmically active with unique changes in meter. The middle section of this concert overture is simply beautiful!

Fughetta - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Taken from piano repertoire, arranger Andrew Balent uses his long career of experience to provide bands with an exceptional teaching piece. Fughetta acts as an introduction to the Baroque style, and also teaches young students how to play contrapuntal music, a difficult and important skill. This piece has great potential for inclusion on contest/festival required lists.

Future of Tomorrow

Using brief excerpts from Malay folk songs, this concert march has been carefully written with younger players in mind. With ample opportunities for teaching tempo consistency, articulation, rhythmic precision, and musical phrasing this joyful, accessible selection is intended to bring out the best in your young musicians who are the future of tomorrow. A great choice for your contest or festival march selection.

Gaelic Dance and Ayre

Starting with a bright and lively gigue followed with a lyrical ayre that then returns to the original material, this interesting composition will add a worldly flavor to your next concert. With moving and expressive woodwind and brass lines with minimal exposed parts, this is a great composition to reinforce listening skills and dynamics while also developing basic six-eight playing abilities.

Galactic Episode