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Sight-Reading Studies - James Curnow
An important addition to the ground-breaking Essentials of Musicianship Series from Curnow Music Press! You have probably found that if you rely entirely on your method book and performance pieces for teaching and reinforcement, many aspects of musicianship do not receive the focus that they should have. Method books have notoriously little reinforcement material because they try to cover so much with so little book space. The Essentials Series allows you to select the areas that your band needs work on and provides a great deal of reinforcement for those critical skills. If you are not yet familiar with this series, you have just discovered a tremendousteaching resource! Look at a score for Sight-Reading Builders and notice the comprehensive instructions for most effective use. Teach your band to read style and well as notes and rhythms! A wonderful resource!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£69.99
Scale Studies for Band - James Curnow
An important part of our Essentials of Musicianship Series, Scale Studies for Band is designed to be used as an instructional aid during your normal daily practice. Written so that the scale studies can be interlaced at appropriate times into your rehearsal, they enable you to address the scale and key considerations of your next piece just before starting that piece. For instance, if the next arrangement you will rehearse has a section in the key of G Major, you can take a moment and review the study in that key (Study Number 7). It's amazing how many wrong notes can be avoided by reviewing the key signature in an interesting and exciting manner, before diving into theperformance piece rehearsal. In the long run, this "key signature review" approach can actually save more rehearsal time than it uses. In addition to the full band aspect of Scale Studies, you may find value in quickly and easily administered "playing tests" using these materials. However you choose to use them, the Scale Studies from the Curnow Music Press Essentials of Musicianship Series will be valuable indeed!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£53.95Awesome Sauce - Scott Watson
You're cool, likeable, and confident. You don't walk, you strut. When you enter a party, a hush falls over the room and heads turn because you have a certain "je ne sais quoi!" People say you're "the bee's knees" and "the cat's meow." You're Awesome Sauce and this piece is the soundtrack of your life! With its fun, blues-like melody and cool rock beat, Awesome Sauce by Scott Watson is sure to be a player favorite. The limited chromaticism, accessible jazz-esque rhythms, and style-important articulations offer excellent teaching moments for the director. (2:57) Awesome Sauce correlates to Book 1, Level 6 of Sound Innovations for Concert Band.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.99Close - Stijn Roels
Close is a chorale that sings the praises of a universal theme: love. The people who are dear to you are the ones you'd like to keep as close to you as possible, to make sure you can hug them from time to time. This was not always a matter of course during the past COVID period - an absence which many people felt deeply. The desire for the closeness of love is expressed in a beautiful, lyrical melody supported by warm harmonies. After a quiet opening, the music builds up to a grand climax, and it features tender as well as ardent moments. Perfect to dream away, as well as to dwell on the many aspects that belong to love.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£104.99Hard Rock Dynamite
Do you like rock guitars and a nice heavy beat on the drums? If so, this medley is what you are looking for! It features four fearsome solid gold rock hits: 'Walk This Way' (Aerosmith), 'Come As You Are' (Nirvana), 'I Was Made For Lovin' You' (Kiss) and 'Seven Nation Army' (The White Stripes). Not for the faint-hearted!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£72.70
Makalaka Boom! - Haakon Esplo
With rock beats and fun rhythms you can let the young musicians have fun in this simple and captivating rock song! It has challenges and small solo parts in all parts, including percussion, and allows you to add your own improvisations if you want. You can repeat sections, especially after measure 14, and give individual musicians the task to create small solo motifs or to be creative in other ways.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£159.99The Miner's Saga - Otto M. Schwarz
This programmatic piece is about a simple miner by the name of Gottlieb Bumler and his pact with the devil. In the program note one can follow each step of the story so you can almost hear the events as if they were happening in front of you! This cinematic piece is full of sound effects, great brass sequences, solid percussion and virtuosic winds. An ideal piece for a thematic concert, or a challenging choice for a contest. This programmatic piece is about a simple miner by the name of Gottlieb Bumler and his pact with the devil. In the program note one can follow each step of the story so you can almost hear the events as if they were happening in front of you! Thiscinematic piece is full of sound effects, great brass sequences, solid percussion and virtuosic winds. An ideal piece for a thematic concert, or a challenging choice for a contest.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£174.10Graceful Ghost - William Bolcom
I came to know of this piece when hearing famous Norwegian ragtime pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen playing it at a concert with the Norwegian Navy Band Bergen.I was struck by its melancholic beauty and wanted to arrange it for band. Ragtimes are rarely in a minor key (which this one is) and when you first hear it, you might think it was written around the time when Scott Joplin was the main ragtime composer. But, if you listen more carefully, you notice that some of the harmoniesare more advanced than one might expect in traditional ragtime, giving the piece a slightly more contemporary feel. The composer William Bolcom wrote Graceful Ghost in 1970 to honour the memoryof his father and it is one of his mostpopular pieces.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£73.99Bear - Edward Fairlie
Ever been chased by a grizzly bear? Hopefully Edward Fairlie's exciting and descriptive work will be as close as you get! You're taken on a heart-thumping chase through the forest, with twigs snapping and trees rustling. You lose your predator momentarily, allowing you to take in your majestic surroundings. But before long you hear a noise, and the chase is on again. This work promises to be a joy to perform and a thrill for any audience!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£71.50Zombies Knocking On Your Door - John Prescott
Imagine that you are being pursued by a horde of Zombies, the living dead, who have decided to make you one of them. You run inside your house and lock the door, but they come knocking. You tell them to go away, but they just knock louder and as time goes on their knocking grows more and more insistent. How will it end? Listen to this scary piece and judge for yourself.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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