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£67.00Echoes Eternal
Echoes Eternal is beautiful piece for concert band featuring fresh harmonies and lush orchestration and connects performers and audiences together in an emotional and fulfilling journey. Described as a modern take on Baroque-era chorales, this piece is formed by three distinct sections, each sharing a common melody and general harmonic sequence.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£71.00Joyful World
From the opening fanfare, this piece will put you in the holiday spirit! Joyful World is an adaptation of the familiar Christmas carol Joy to the World. The piece opens with fragments of the familiar carol cleverly woven into a spirited fanfare. This is followed by a rendition featuring a regimental snare part with playful harmonies. In the third section, the meter changes to create a beautiful 6/4 ballad, leading to a hint of the familiar Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee tune before returning to the original melody. The piece ends with a spirited brass flourish.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£42.00Dance of the Crows
Composed with Renaissance style dances in mind, the composer imagined attending a dance where everything is beautiful, but the dancers are actually crows! With a melody that is simple and primarily on the beat, the compositions starts calmly but gradually becomes more aggressive. Use this to develop the characteristic low clarinet sound, counting and listening skills, easy dynamic contrasts, and independent percussion playing. A fun opportunity for beginning bands to stretch their wings!
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£42.00Sunrise March
Named for the opening motif, which quickly ascends like the rising sun, this march offers several teaching moments. Students get to work on independent parts playing in imitation or call and response, dynamic development, staccatos, accents, and minimal accidentals. Every section plays the melody at some point which makes this an excellent choice for demonstration or recruitment concerts. Perfect for concerts and contest, and even graduation as a processional.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£42.00Tropical Winds
Take your beginning band to a tropical island! Using simple patterns based on Caribbean rhythms, this is an excellent lighter selection for your spring concerts. Low instruments are featured in the middle section, but all sections get a chance to perform the melody. Develop breathing and phrasing technique while also introducing students to easy and fun Latin rhythms.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£42.00The Lizard King
Inspired by the composer's son's fascination with lizards, this beginning band piece uses at most eight notes in each instrument's range, perfect to end the first year of instruction. Featuring many opportunities for dynamics and articulation development, this composition will help develop those essential skills. With plenty of percussion parts to keep players interested and every section playing the melody, this piece is sure to become a student favorite!
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£42.00Valley of Shadows
Starting strong with a simple melody and active percussion, this piece about the adventure of walking through a scary forested valley introduces programmatic music to students in a fun and entertaining way. Along the journey, they will encounter a snake represented by a ratchet and contemporary techniques like dissonance, shouting, and clapping. With active percussion and plenty of rhythmic challenges this piece, is appropriate for a 2nd year concert or advanced first year band.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£75.00The Fencing Master
Originally published by Carl Fischer in 1932, this rediscovered treasure of the concert march world has been rescored for the modern concert band. Written in traditional march form, all sections are featured. A pleasant opening strain moves into an interesting trio with a legato trumpet melody set against high woodwind arpeggios before a more strident presentation of the same theme. With multiple dynamic contrasts and interesting countermelodies for all sections, this march is a great opportunity to teach traditional march form while also presenting a gem of the march repertoire that is unknown to many audiences.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£46.00Honor Bound
Honor Bound is to be obligated by one's own code of conduct to do what is ethically right. This is often referenced in the military, but applies equally to our everyday conduct. This traditional military style march represents the dignity and worth of the individual. This is accomplished by featuring all sections at some point: a percussion introduction and interlude, trumpet fanfare, low brass melody, and woodwind lead. The notated dynamics are essential for musical contrast and the tempo can be adjusted according to student skill levels. Perfect to teach march form, this composition is also suitable for patriotic celebrations or as a last-minute selection for more advanced bands.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£40.006-Note Santa
This arrangement of Jolly Old Saint Nicholas is perfect for the beginning band winter concert. Based on the first 6 notes of the concert Bb scale, the scoring ensures every instrument gets a chance to play the rhythmically simple melody. The only eighth notes appear in the snare drum part. Written with the composer's typical expertise for a great sounding and easy-to-put together composition, try this for a jolly good time.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days