Three Billy Goats Gruff - Amy Adam

A new concept in beginning band literature! Your group can promote character education with a performance of Three Billy Goats Gruff. An important anti-bullying message is embedded in the easy and humorous narration. A soundtrack-like format makes it a different experience for your players as well. The specific focus on character education may qualify its purchase for funding outside your music budget. Best of all, Three Billy Goats Gruff is really fun! This is the first in a series of ethics-driven pieces for beginning band by Mike Hannickel and Amy Adam.

Three Blind Mice - Bert Appermont

This composition is based on the children's song 'Three Blind Mice', of which the melody is featured in a range of variations: in a canon, in inversion, in minor, transformed, with changing harmonisations and orchestrations, and in different times and tempi. The work consists of three continuous, contrasting movements: 1) Mouse March: The mice cheerfully set off while the original melody is presented as a march. - 2) Hymn: In a tuneful hymn, the wonderful praises of the life of mice are sung. - 3) Catch Me If You Can: In an animated chase, the farmer's wife is trying to catch the mice. Following a stirring acceleration, she cuts off their tails in accordance with the lyrics of the song. I hope this work, with its humorous touch, will be a welcome contribution to the expansion of interesting repertoire for the lower divisions. - Bert Appermont

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Three Brazilian Folksongs - Heitor Villa-Lobos

Three Caprices for Band - Henk van Lijnschooten

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Three Carnival Masks - Kamilló Lendvay

Three Choral Preludes - William P. Latham

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Three Chorales for Christmas - Johann Sebastian Bach

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Three Christmas Miniatures - Tyra

Three delicious original miniatures, the first, entitled "Christmas Shopping" has all of the cheerful hustle and bustle you would expect at this glorious time of year. Miniature two, "Snow On Christmas Eve" is a delicate movement at a slower tempo while "Bells On Christmas Morning" brings this piece to a joyful conclusion with its bright tempo and melodious holiday spirit.

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Three Christmas Spirituals

Based on three famous African-American spirituals'Children Go Where I Send Thee, Rise Up Shepherd and Follow, and Go Tell It on the Mountain, arranger Andrew Balent weaves these beloved tunes into a concert rhapsody for the holiday season.

Three City Sketches - Philip Sparke

'Three City Sketches' was commissioned for Soli Deo Gloria Alkmaar from the Netherlands. The work's three movements depict different aspects of the orchestra's hometown. This is an exciting and epic piece for a contest or thematic concert.

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