A Centennial Celebration (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sheldon, Robert

A Centennial Celebration is a vibrant work incorporating simple mixed meters with interesting rhythms and tuneful melodies. A beautiful lyrical section includes many expressive opportunities for both the full ensemble and several soloists before revisiting the opening themes and moving on to a triumphant conclusion. This is Robert Sheldon at his best!Duration: 4.45

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A Centennial Journey (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Sparke, Philip

A Centennial Journey was commissioned by the Norwegian ensemble Stavanger Musikkorps av 1919 to celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2019. The work was premiered under conductor Morten E. Hansen at their Jubilee Concert in the Stavanger Konserthus on 28th September 2019. The piece opens dramatically with a sweeping melody on horns and saxophones under florid woodwind figuration, building to a majestic climax. A trio for the trombones calms the mood until the opening melody returns in a gentler style, eventually building to a busy molto vivo. The woodwind figuration continues over a series of brass trios until the main theme of the work appears on clarinets and euphoniums. This develops to introduce a change of key, featuring a long, hymn-like melody on clarinets and horns. The melody is then taken up by the full band, interspersed with sporadic brass fanfares. The opening of the molto vivo returns and leads to a return of the opening horn melody, building to a thrilling coda based on previous melodic material. Duration: 8.45

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A Century of Music (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Crausaz, Etienne

This work was commissioned by the Concordia wind band and the Echo male choir, based in Miege (Valais, Switzerland), to mark their respective centenaries. The piece is a sanguine sounding work entirely based upon variations in several keys of a main hymn. This creates a festive and sprituoso atmosphere throughout this impressive, highly colourful and energetic work.Duration: 8.15

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A Chanukah Festival (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - O'Reilly, John

Duration: 1.45

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A Charlie Brown Christmas (Flexible Ensemble - Score and Parts) - Guaraldi, Vince - Murtha, Paul

The magic of the holiday season through the eyes of Charlie Brown never grows old. Here is a terrific medley written with flexible instrumentation of Vince Guaraldi's marvellous music.Includes:Linus and LucySkatingO TannenbaumChristmas Time is Here

A Chesapeake Bay Adventure (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Gassi, Vince

This pieces takes its inspiration from the rich maritime history of the Chesapeake Bay - from colonial lighthouses to Civil War Ironclads; from its vital role in the Underground Railroad to Blackbeard and other real life pirates, Adventure is paramount as swashbuckling themes are developed in the opening and closing sections of this work and beautifully contrasted with the haunting lyrical section reminiscent of Oh Shenandoah.Duration: 5.15

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A Child Is Born (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Del Borgo, Elliot

This energetic arrangement of the 15th-century English carol makes full use of the colours and sonorities of the concert band. The modal nature of the tune combined with contrapuntal textures, strong melodic lines and driving eighth-note rhythms will keep your entire band focused. An energetic holiday offering with plenty of sparkle and drive!Duration: 3.00

A Child is Born in Bethlehem (Concert Band with Optional Choir - Score and Parts) - Scheidt, Samuel - Noble & Willcocks

Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era, and was one of Germany's most distinguished composers at that time, especially in the field of keyboard music. His three volumes of Tabulatura nova (1624) are a monumental compendium of song and dance arrangements, sets of variations, fantasias, toccatas, fugues and liturgical pieces (often plainsong-based) for the Lutheran Mass and Office. Likewise his four books of Geistliche Konzerte illustrate the ways of elaborating a chorale, fusing declamatory ideas with contrapuntal writing. Scheidt was the first internationally significant German composer for the organ, and represents the flowering of the new north German style, which occurred largely as a result of the Protestant Reformation. Scheidt's music is in two principal categories: instrumental music, including a large amount of keyboard music, mostly for organ; and sacred vocal music, some of which is a cappella and some of which uses a basso continuo or other instrumental accompaniment. Edited for double chorus by David Willcocks, this arrangement represents one in the Series of Band Arrangements compatible with David Willcocks' Carols for Choirs.

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A Child's Garden of Verses (Soprano Solo with Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Jager, Robert - Noble, Paul

A Child's Garden of Verses has a very special meaning for me. Bob Jager, a family friend, was visiting in our home, and my wife, Mitzi Noble, a soprano soloist, was singing to his children. Bob's two young children became so enthralled with the music that Bob wanted to capture that moment. So he composed this piece for Mitzi, and dedicated it to his children, Kathleen and Matthew. The text is from Robert Louis Stevenson's poems: I. Happy Thought; II. The Wind; III. The Land of Counterpane; IV. From a Railway Carriage; V. Escape at Bedtime. Bob writes: The ideal performance instrumentation would be one on a part. If a larger group is used the balance should be kept proportional. In a few places the terms Solo or One are used where the sonority is critical, and this should be strictly followed. Above all, the singer should never feel forced by the ensemble. This work was composed in 1972, and was never published. I am pleased that Bob has allowed me now to publish it under Noble Music Publications, so that it may be available for others to perform and enjoy. Mitzi writes: Although we did not have access at the time, the ideal performance would be with a throat mic so that the soloist is free to move around the stage and sing, as though singing and relating to children sitting on the front row.

A Child's Lullaby - Brahms, Johannes - Swearingen, James

A gentle and sensitive setting of the famous Brahms melody which features a trumpet solo (cued in flute and oboe). Swearingen's lush harmonization makes this a superior piece for developing tone quality and expressive phrasing concepts while providing an appealing and popular concert piece.

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