Ariel - Carl Strommen

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Arietta Voi che sapete (aus Figaros Hochzeit) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Arikara - James Meredith

Inspired by the Arikara (uh-RIK-a-RAH) tribe of Native Americans based in North Dakota, this work by James Meredith is an evocative piece without portraying any specific event or story. Opening with a plaintive flute solosupported by an exotic percussion backdrop, the piece features a chorale-like statement in the winds before moving to the faster and more rhythmic main section. Mixing early American imagery with striking dissonances, this is aneffective and unique offering with limited technical demands. Dur: 4:50

Arikara - Victor Lopez

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Arioso

Arioso - Darren W. Jenkins

Arioso was written for and dedicated to the Hayden High School Concert Band, Topeka, Kansas. A slow, expressive, sustained work, it was written to help develop intonation, expressiveness, and phrasing, and for the limited instrumentation of that ensemble. (It has been rescored for a full instrumentation.) This piece can succeed with a limited instrumentation, and most certainly by bands without the instruments that were addeD. ( 4 minutes 30 seconds).

Arioso - Georg Friedrich Händel

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Arioso - Johann Sebastian Bach

Soft, delicate, sensitive, and meant to be performed at a very slow tempo, this superlative Alfred Reed arrangement is a wonderful addition to the band repertoire. Definitely written for mature bands, the notes aren't hard, but the music itself will challenge the skills of even the very best bands. Exceptional music!

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Arirang

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Arizona - Franco Cesarini

Arizona is written in a typical three-part overture form. The composition is not strictly descriptive as such, but rather conveys moods and emotions, inspired by impressions of the American desert state of Arizona: the endless, cactus-studded desert landscape, a lone Indian on horseback, the legendary Grand Canyon Railroad, the Petrified Forest and the famous Monument Valley.

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