Two Shaker Songs (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Brackett & Williamson - Story, Michael

Music and dance were an integral part of Shaker worship services. Michael Story has crafted this two- movement mini-suite paying homage to these historical charismatic tunes, including "Simple Gifts" and "Pretty Home." With a variety teaching opportunities, dramatic dynamic contrasts bring these tunes to life. A melodic choice to develop musicality!

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Two Sketches for Band (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Edmondson, John

Already an established work in the young band repertoire, John Edmondson's masterful Two Sketches for Band opens with a slow and melodic Anthem and concludes with a stately Recessional. With fresh harmonies and appealing melodies throughout, this is effective writing for young bands at its best. Duration: 4.00

Two Slavonic Dances (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Dvorak, Antonin - Bosveld, Jan

Czech composer Antonin Dvorak is best-known for his beautiful string-quartets, his symphonies (especially nr.9 'From the New World'), and his Slavonic Dances Op. 46 and 72. Dutch composer and arranger Jan Bosveld adapted two dances (numbers 4 and 7) from his opus 46 for concert band. Alternating between the virtuoso and the melancholy, these lovely little pieces for orchestra above all provoke responses of instant recognition with your audiences.Duration: 6:00

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Two Songs for the Holidays (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Connor, Mark J.

Using just the first six notes and simplified rhythms, "Two Songs for the Holidays" features two Christmas classics and is scored for success. "Angels We Have Heard On High" and "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" by arranger Mark Connor is written for beginners to be played at their very first holiday concert. Playable with a flexible instrumentation, this is a welcome addition to holiday literature for our youngest musicians. Duration: 2.30

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Two Songs From the British Isles (Concert Band - Score and Parts)

A haunting melody and lush harmonies combine in this exciting beguine that's extremely effective for young players.

TWO SONGS OF MORNING (Concert Band) - Erickson, Frank

Two Songs of Morning contains two beautifully contrasting melodies, scored to demonstrate the lush tonal capabilities of the concert band. The Gaelic Melody used in movement tow is the well-known "Morning has Broken". Upon conclusion of the eight-bar introduction, the first presentation of the theme appears in the first trumpet accompanied by the expressive style throughout the movement, and students will enjoy the challenge of having to play the extended phrases needed to bring this music to life.

TWO SONGS WITHOUT WORDS (Concert Band) - Holst, Gustav - Erickson, Frank

Two Songs Without Words was composed in 1906 and was dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams and is similar in style to his two suites for band. The Country Song opens with the principal theme as an unaccompanied clarinet solo, followed by its repetition in the full woodwind section. The main theme returns in a "maestoso" setting before fading into a quite closing. Marching Song is characterized by a distinctive running sixteenth note figure. The principal melody, first played by the low woodwinds, is punctuated by these same running sixteenth note fragments. Both themes are again repeated with much variation before the tempo picks up into a short coda-style ending.

Two Susato Dances (Concert Band - Score and Parts) - Susato, Tielman - Ellerby, Martin

Around 1540 Tielman Susato, the Belgium trumpet player and composer, established himself in Antwerp as a printer of music. In 1551 he brought out The Third Little Music Book, a collection of instrumental dances. Most of these are arrangements, possible by Susato himself, of popular dance tunes. In keeping with sixteenth-century practice, this book details no specific instrumentation; something to be worked out by the players with whatever available means. Doubtless many of the dances were performed on wind instruments at festive outdoor events. The date of Susato's birth is unknown but estimated to be around 1500. The same applied to his death, which is thought to be somewhere between 1561-64.The third Little Music Book gives several examples of the traditional sixteenth-century genre, the dance pair, a predecessor of the Baroque suite. In such a pair the first dance was often in slow or moderate duple time, the second in quick triple time. This is the case in the pair presented here, which consists of a lively round dance followed by a Hop Up or saltarello.Titles in the Prelude Series are specifically scored for bands with few, if any, bass instruments but will sound well on larger ensembles. The bass line is playable by any combination of bass clarinet, bassoon, baritone saxophone, trombone, euphonium or tuba; in the event that none of these is available, the part for trombone/euphonium (B flat TC) can be played by tenor saxophone. The tuned percussion part is entirely optional and can be played by any available instrument(s). Each piece also includes a preliminary exercise. This is always in the same key as the accompanying piece and consists of a scale and chord progression that can be used for improving ensemble, balance, intonation and instrumental facility by changing tempo, articulation and dynamics.Duration: 2.00

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Two Swinging Spirituals (Flexible Ensemble - Score and Parts) - Fernie, Alan

8 Part Flexible Ensemble and PercussionIncludes:Swing Low, Sweet ChariotJoshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

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Two Symphonic Interludes Wind Band Set (Score & Parts)

Based on the poems by German poet Carl Hauptmann (late Romanticism) and the English poet William Wordsworth (early Romanticism). Carl Hauptmann was in poor health as a child, but highly intelligent. He studied philosophy, psychology and biology. In the latter he was admitted to the degree of doctor. His marriage provided financial independence, so that he could focus on his studies. Hauptmann wrote various novels, plays, poetry and scientific works. Night Twilight floats above the valley's night mists are hanging, there's a whispering brook. Now the covering veil is lifting quite: come and look! See the magic land before our gaze: tall as dreams the silver mountains stand, crossed by silent silver paths shining from a secret land. Noble, pure, the dreaming country sleeps. By the path the shadow black and hogh of a beach. a wisp of a white smoke creeps to the dark'ning sky. Where the valley is the darkest hued countless little lights shine silently. O my soul! Drink of solitude! Carl Hauptmann Wordsworth 'introduced' a new type of poetry, based on the speech of the common man. This was his answer to the poetry of the classicism which was bound by rigid rules. His definition of poetry was: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility. My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began. So is it now I am a man. So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man. And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth In a truly poetic manner Harrie Janssen has transformed the contemplative thoughts of the poets into two compositions for Concert Band. 10:45

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