Awakening Hills - Richard L. Saucedo

MusicWorks - Grade 3 Commissioned for the All Iowa Middle School Honor Band, here is an exuberant work that features dynamic ensemble passages, layering effects, and extensive percussion scoring. Richard's masterful development of repetitive rhythmic motives makes this sound more difficult than it really is. A contrasting middle section uses brief solos for alto sax and flute over a rich harmonic texture. A powerful statement for band. (5:10)

Awakening? - Dana Wilson

Beginning with silence and gradually building throughout to a powerful and dramatic close, this distinctive work from Dana Wilson explores the various facets of the word "awakening" as it applies to the waking of an individual, a day, or possibly even a philosophical idea. Wonderfully imaginative, Awakening... makes use of striking colors and sonic devices including surrounding the audience with percussion near the climatic finish.

Away In A Manger

A traditional Christmas carol with a new twist! This creative setting of "Away In A Manger" uses a fun and festive Latin beat with plenty of syncopated action guaranteed to keep the percussion section involved! It's a real musical gem which is guaranteed to be the annual holiday concert favorite!

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Away In A Manger - Andrew Robertson Mackereth

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Away in a Manger - Kirkpatrick

Away in a Manger - Traditional

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Away In A Manger - William James Kirkpatric

Awesome Sauce - Scott Watson

You're cool, likeable, and confident. You don't walk, you strut. When you enter a party, a hush falls over the room and heads turn because you have a certain "je ne sais quoi!" People say you're "the bee's knees" and "the cat's meow." You're Awesome Sauce and this piece is the soundtrack of your life! With its fun, blues-like melody and cool rock beat, Awesome Sauce by Scott Watson is sure to be a player favorite. The limited chromaticism, accessible jazz-esque rhythms, and style-important articulations offer excellent teaching moments for the director. (2:57) Awesome Sauce correlates to Book 1, Level 6 of Sound Innovations for Concert Band.

Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer