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£39.00Step Up!
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 12-14 working days
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£69.00The Quest
Taking the listener on an epic musical journey, this modern composition with strong melodic lines, expanded percussion opportunities, and moments of musical reflection will challenge and develop your Grade 3 band's expressive and technical abilities. Featuring several tempo changes, this is an excellent festival or contest programming choice that also works as a concert opener or closer.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£50.00Monument Valley
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 12-14 working days
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£65.00Angels Will Come
With a melody developed through the use of meter and tone color combinations and changes, students will learn blend and balance while also experiencing an essential part of band performance, the lyrical ballad. Your percussionists will also have the rare opportunity to create expressive moments as their contribution is an integral part of this piece's structure. Let your ensemble's skills shine with this challenging, yet rewarding, composition.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£65.00Madonna of the Western Trail
Inspired by 12 monuments of the same name which exist along the Old Trail Road or National Road, this piece evolves as you follow the path of a traveling pioneer woman and her family. Featuring an expressive middle section inside two faster Spanish-influenced sections, this concert opener or contest and festival selection also features a short trumpet solo. Use this to teach about ABA compositional form or as an interdisciplinary lesson on the American West.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£50.00Jam on Top
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 12-14 working days
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£50.00Lonely Travelers
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 12-14 working days
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£43.00Contemplation
Contemplation by composer Larry Clarkis written in a contemplative manner for beginning students. It begins with a lush opening section with an elegant melody. This is contrasted by an uptempo section with a frolicking feel, which is a variation on the same musical material. Contemplationis a very musically gratifying piece for beginning wind players.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£39.00Ballet of the Dinosaur Hatchlings
Ballet of the Dinosaur Hatchlingsisan imaginative and funselection for a beginning band with less than one year of instruction. Wind parts use only five pitches and only the percussion partsuse eighth notes. Two sound effects are required in the piece.First, the hatching eggs are portrayed by a ratchet, and second, the snapping dinosaurs jaws are represented by a slapstick. Ballet of the Dinosaur Hatchlings isan intriguing piece that beginning students are sure to love.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£73.00American Emblem - Bill Calhoun
This new piece from composer Bill Calhoun is a distinctly American work for concert band that has potential as a concert or contest piece or as patriotic tribute to our great land. Starting with an open sounding fanfare, the piece leads to a truly American style melodic figure before developing variations on "Yankee Doodle" in ways reminiscent of other great American composers. This is followed by a heartfelt middle section, leading to a stunning climax with the opening material returning for an upbeat conclusion. This will make you band sound wonderful for concert or contest.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days