Pantomime - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Paradigm Shift

Paradigm Shift is an energetic and aggressive concert selection that will amp up your band's confidence and wow any audience. Written for bands with at least one year's training, this piece is also sophisticated enough for groups with more experience. Students will have the opportunity to work on articulation, phrasing, and changing rhythms. Joseph Compello has done it again with this piece designed to make your ensemble sound great!

Passerine - Newfoundland Folk Song

Based on a Newfoundland folk song, Passerine refers to "the swallow" found in the lyric of this song of lost love. Carl Strommen gives us an exceptionally beautiful setting of this folk song that contains a transparent orchestration to begin the work, contrasted nicely with the later entrance of the full ensemble. Your ensemble will enjoy reflecting the romantic sentiment of Passerine broadly and with great expression.

Path of Destiny

Sean O'Loughlin's music is highly influenced by music for film, and this piece is meant to depict the action/battle music of the genre. Strong, powerful, and dramatic moments all permeate this piece from start to finish. It is a serious new piece for young bands.

Path to Victory

Beginning bands will sound victorious with this strong new piece from popular composer Sean O'Loughlin. Majestic and sweeping, Path to Victory contains all of the aspects of Sean's compositional style that have made his pieces so extensively used by bands at all levels. This is a strong choice for contest or festival performance.

Pelican Dance

Quirky, fun, and not too serious, this dance-like composition was inspired by the composer noticing pelicans on his way to work! The opening motif played by the entire ensemble in the first measure is fundamental for the entire work. Stated in some form at the beginning of each musical section, it even appears as a bass line in the composition. Performed at one tempo throughout, this piece emphasizes essential dynamic contrasts and the various ways a theme can be developed in a composition. Percussion drives the energy of the composition, allowing your players to develop their skills on hand percussion. Enjoy the dance!

Phantasm

Phantom Echo

Phantom Echo is intriguing and unique, but retains the signature style that you and your students have come to love from composer Larry Clark. This piece plays on the echo-effect with a great deal of interplay between woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Interesting music for younger students with lots of teaching opportunities.

Phantom Miners

Phantom Miners takes the listener to the ghost towns of the American Southwest, where abandoned mining towns echo with the sounds of long-dead miners still toiling in the earth. The piece is full of eerie, atmospheric sounds, with auxiliary percussion creating chilling effects to mimic ghostly activities. The dramatic shifts between harsh and delicate sounds reflect the desperation of the spirits who refuse to leave their work unfinished. Careful attention to dynamics and timing will help convey the unsettling, spectral world of the Phantom Miners.

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