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£62.00The Elven Eleven
With a nod toward Western movie theme songs, The Elven Eleven is a quirky look at a troop of pony-riding elves on a quest for adventure. Join them as they romp through the countryside in search of treasures, conquests, and revelry! This piece is a great chance to work on intonation, articulation, and syncopation with early students. This song was designed to entertain audiences and make your young band sound great.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£46.00Best Friends Forever
Joseph Compello's Best Friends Foreverderives its titlefrom the phrase popularized in social media and frequently texted with the acronym "BFF." This is a strong and tuneful march in standard form for beginning bands. The composer draws on his many years of teaching to provide a well-written march that will make students sound great!
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£46.00Expeditious - John Pasternak
Expeditiousbegins with fanfare-like harmonies, making this beginning band piece sound unexpectedly advanced. Composer John Pasternak utilizes accessible notes and rhythms in this well-crafted piece for the youngest players while still creating a rich musical experience. Pasternak is fast becoming a go to composer for intriguing works for young bands.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£46.00The Gauntlet - Matthew Putnam
The Gauntletis a piece written to sound bold and exciting while also being accessible to young performers with a limited range. Simple yet bold rhythms add excitement, heightened by the fact that every section has an opportunity to play melodic content. The interesting "development" section provides a contrast to the opening and helps to build the suspense before the return of the main theme. The percussion helps to drive the energy of the piece by providing a variety of colorful sounds including a gong solo at the end to signal the knight's triumph.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£78.00Western Reserve - John Pasternak
Western Reserve is an exciting original march in the classic American march form and style. Composer John Paternak captures the essence of the great Sousa and Fillmore marches in a tuneful and fresh sound. Featuring a fun, catchy trio melody, Western Reserveis well suited for advancing level concert bands and would be a great warm-up march for festivals.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£50.00The Snake Pit
Everyone remembers the first time that they saw a snake. Though fascinating to some and terrifying to others, few animals are as universally mesmerizing. Composer Tyler Arcari has crafted a very fun piece making use ofauxiliary percussion instruments to emulate a snake's hiss or ominous rattle. With very strong and interesting melodic material, and scored to make a developing band sound great, this piece is sure to be a favorite among students.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£41.00Ballet 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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£58.00Tum Balalaika - Russian Folk Song
Tum Balalaikais attributed to a number of Eastern European countries, but is best known as a Russian Jewish folk/love/"riddle" song. Loosely translated, "tum" means "noise," and the Balalaika is a Russian stringed instrument with a characteristic triangular, hollow, wooden body and three strings, closely related to the domra and mandolin. Carl Strommen's wonderful setting will help any group sound their best.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£46.00Adamant
Larry Clark's Adamant is strong from the very beginning helping even the youngest of players sound confident and assertive. The work is set in C minor with simple rhythms no more difficult than two repeated eighth notes. With biting dissonances and angular interjections in the flowing main theme, the piece is quite dramatic for beginning band students. They will want to play it again and again.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days
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£78.00Polar Vortex
The Polar Vortex is the mass of extremely cold air situated over each of the earth's poles. Occasionally the vortex slips away from the polar region bringing unusually cold air to areas away from the pole. Polar Vortex is a depiction of a winter storm inspired by the poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snow-Storm." It is a rhapsodic piece with many contrasting moments, styles, tempos, and colors of sound. A sophisticated new work from composer Gene Milford.
Estimated dispatch 12-14 working days