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£56.50Step Up! - Gene Milford
This band section feature for beginning students, using only simple rhythms and the first six notes learned, is an excellent showcase for every instrument in the band. Use it to recruit, for assemblies, and first concerts. An excellent concert opener!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.95Monument Valley - David Bobrowitz
An evocative tribute to its namesake, a region of the Colorado Plateau featuring vast sandstone buttes reaching hundreds of feet above the valley floor, this concert opener is full of educational opportunities. Meter changes, independent lines, varied dynamics and articulations combined with tempo changes make this an exciting and interesting concert or festival selection.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.95Lonely Travelers - Travis Weller
Layering two songs which speak to the idea of searching for something beyond your current situation, this is an excellent piece for teaching an ensemble to blend so they can hear each other and not be individually heard. Using 900 Miles and The Wayfaring Stranger for compositional material, thematic elements from both are interwoven into the overall musical fabric. 900 Miles' lonely railroad worker is heard in woodwind train whistle effects and the homesickness of The Wayfaring Stranger, as heard in the movie "1917", is effectively portrayed by a moving treatment using long tones with a continuing rhythmic accompaniment. A strong concert, contest or festival choice, this work offers cross-curricular opportunities as well.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.95Jam on Top - Mark Lortz
This jazzy piece, written in a standard blues progression, is the perfect introduction to this essential musical style. Written to be performed in either a straight rock or swing feel, directors looking to highlight their saxophonists should consider this piece. There are multiple solo to soli saxophone options in the style of an open jazz vamp. The drum parts are written for multiple players but you can also feature a young drum set performer. An excellent light jazz composition to help students learn about blues chord progressions and blues scales while also having fun!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.95Flaming Arrow - Larry Clark
With a pronounced Native American flavor, this characteristically well-wrought Larry Clark piece alternates slow reflective music with an aggressive Allegro that includes rhythmic shouting and stamping. The return of the slow opening music at measure 35 leads to an accelerando and crescendo into the climactic return of the Allegro material and the exciting conclusion that may have the audience stamping and shouting!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.95Promenade - Bill Calhoun
A regal new piece from up and coming composer Bill Calhoun. Promenade can be defined as a "ceremonious opening to a formal event" and in this case, Promenade should provide an excellent opening to your band's first concert. Your beginning groups will sound marvelous with the strong scoring of this majestic offering, also an ideal piece for contest/festival performance.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.95Antagonist - Larry Clark
In every great story there is always an antagonist, the character of opposing force who is central to the success of the story. Larry Clark has applied this concept to music in a new beginning band piece, fascinating in sound and an excellent cross-curricular tie with English classes, musically illustrating the structure of a good story. This piece is aggressive and at times, purposely antagonizing. Designed with the youngest of players in mind, it works on simple repeated eighth note patterns as the foundation for the melodic material. As is typical in a Larry Clark piece, interesting parts are provided for all instruments, and everyone gets to play the melody.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.95
The Air and Light of Aether - Richard Summers
A regal piece for beginning bands, this composition offers opportunities for establishing an understanding of proper ensemble balance and instrumental color with nice changes in orchestration that make the piece interesting and fresh. The Air and Light of Aether is a great chance for students to learn an awareness of the group as a whole and push their expressiveness to new heights through the relatively low technical demands of the piece.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£106.95
Converse Fantasy
An exceptional new composition based upon the hymn "Converse" (commonly known as "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"), William Harbinson has crafted a concert overture using the hymn's theme as a starting point. Beginning with brilliant brass fanfares and woodwind flourishes, the middle section is made up of an inversion of the hymn tune, and ends with a dramatic climax. This work is simply beautiful and heartfelt, showcasing your group's musical expression like no other.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£101.50
Continuum
After an atmospheric opening, Bill Calhoun presents us with a contemporary concert overture in 3/4 time, easing into a lush middle section before the return of the introduction in a new key. Not only will your percussion section love their lively parts in this work, but your whole band gets a chance to play moving melody lines. This musical adventure is an asset to concert and festival programs.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days