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!

Passacaglia and Interlude - Gerald Sebesky

Gerald Sebesky brings us back to an era for style and form of the past, but with a modern sound. Not dissonant, but changing time meters, and counterpoint all within the Grade 4 performance level.First trumpet's highest note is B flat.

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 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.

Pavane - Gabriel Fauré

This beautifully scored arrangement preserves a remarkable amount of the original flavor of this French romantic classic. It will provide the grade two band a terrific opportunity to learn careful tone production and focused intonation and to polish its skills in subtlety of phrasing and overall musicianship. This selection is another excellent choice for contest/festival time. Duration: 6'

Pelican Dance

Phantasm

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.

Philharmonic Phun Phest

Philharmonic Phun Phest - Offenbach

This is a clever medley of classical favorites that kicks off with a grandiose setting of the opening of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, continues with excerpts from Johann Strauss' beloved Blue Danube Waltz and the opening theme of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and concludes with the rollicking Can-Can from Gait Parisienne. A light-hearted medley that is a delight to experience and a perfect way to introduce these classic pieces to young performers. Duration: 2'20" Key: Bb Ranges: Trumpet - D; Horn - D; Trombone - C