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£64.99
The Games Down Under - Brian Connery
This is one your developing players can take to the bank! This piece is meticulously scored with beginners in mind. Young players who have mastered only the first twelve or fourteen pages of any popular band method book will be on solid ground. Avenues for cross-curricular study are also opened via THE GAMES DOWN UNDER. You'll want this one as a staple of your beginning band library.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99
The Nutcracker Suite - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The immense popularity of this ballet seems to be without limit. Now your Grade 1 band can experience the joy of playing the themes they know so well. The flexibility of this suite is one of its best qualities: Play it all, orleave out selected movements. Use the optional tag ending, or skip it. Play it early in the school year while you're still discovering the capabilities of your group. And finally, the suggested changes in the Notes to the Directormake this arrangement more flexible yet.
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£79.99
Spring Festival Overture - James L. Hosay
Bright and festive, SPRING FESTIVAL OVERTURE is perfect for your Spring concert or music festival and also works beautifully as a preliminary overture for the graduation ceremony. With thrilling fanfares and heart lifting themes, this triumphant overture is a real jewel. This piece on your Spring concert will nicely counterbalance any "heavier" piece you may choose to programme. SPRING FESTIVAL OVERTURE makes people feel good, and what can be wrong with that?
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£69.99
I Pledge My Allegiance - Graydon A. Toms
Certain to become a standard Patriotic selection, the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States and the Pledge of Allegiance come together to make a stirring statement with your combined band and one or two-part chorus. Inspirational! Scored to work with bands large or small, you can even use this one at combined mass band/choral concerts. Consider using I PLEDGE MY ALLEGIANCE as the finale to your individual school's combined band and choral concert. The old technique of involving ALL the musicians at the end of the concert guarantees a full sized audience for every group on the program! Sneaky, but it works! There are so many ways to use I PLEDGE MY ALLEGIANCE you'lldefinitely want to add it to your library.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£94.99
Freedom's Promise - James L. Hosay
A modern but patriotic setting with optional narration makes FREEDOM'S PROMISE a moving and versatile Grade 3 piece you will want to add to your band library. It's an ideal patriotic feature for school or community performance. A musical tribute to The Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, the optional narration can be read by one, or divided between a number of students. Many Junior High students in the U.S. spend a large portion of a year in Civics, History or Social Studies classes learning about their government and it's founding documents. A performance of FREEDOM'S PROMISE on your Spring concert is a perfect "cross-curricular tie-in" for your music program. Some school districts have special funding for purchase of special cross-curricular materials. Don't miss it!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£122.50
Heather Ridge Sketches - Stephen Bulla
This significant work for Grade 4 band has much to offer. The piquant harmonies of Movement 1, the introspective mood of Movement 2, and the Hoedown-like romp of Movement 3 unite to form provocative musical images. Stephen Bulla explores unique terrain in a place that seems at once antique and modern, while cradling the listener in rich, innovative harmonies. Have this be the signature music for your band this year. HEATHER RIDGE SKETCHES can be the piece your students will remember for many years to come.
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March Jambalaya - Stephen Bulla
This exciting concert march follows the standard marchform but has an unusual twist. Following a 'dog fight'middle section, in which players can 'let rip' withsome aggressive playing, the trio used the well knownmelody 'Just A Closer Walk' played in a popular syncopatedNew Orleans jazz style.
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Night of Wonder - Douglas Court
In a singing style, this pretty work will be a sparkling and reverent moment in your holiday concert. A superb contrast piece from the pen of Douglas Court, NIGHT OF WONDER engages fascinating harmonic and contrapuntal forces in a truly unique arrangement of WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS.While the wind players get to work on expressive playing, there's plenty of engaging activity for the percussionists too, so rehearsing this contrast piece won't pose the problems of "uninvolved personnel" that some expressive pieces can create in young bands.Beautiful music!
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Mondo Glissando - Mike Hannickel
Slip-slidin' trombone smears in this rip-snortin' ragtime setting are sure to tickle your ears and put some tap in your toes. The trombone glissando is the happiest sound around! Dedicated to, and premiered by, the Westchester Middle School Band of Westchester, Illinois, Mr. Jason Kluge, director, MONDO GLISSANDO targets that most critical of wind sections. When was the last time you featured your trombones? When was the last time they felt like STARS? Section feature pieces are one of the most important techniques available for keeping a section strong and well represented. MONDO GLISSANDO can even be used as a trombone SOLO piece, by having the non-solo trombones play from thetechnically simpler euphonium part.Either way, section or solo, there's nothing like an exposed part on an upcoming performance to reinvigorate a musician's interest and encourage that all-important PRACTICE!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£99.99
Voluntary on 'Old Hundreth' - Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell's epitaph in the Westminster Abbey reads "Here lyes Henry Purcell Esqre, who left this Lyfe and is gone to that Blessed Place where only his Harmony can be exceeded." Purcell's setting of this melody composed by Frenchman Louis Bourgeois has been skillfully arranged for concert band by James Curnow. Delightfully characteristic Baroque counterpoint and harmonies form a great style study for your band while being a wonderful performance piece. Sostenuto passages, a controlled playing style, superb counterpoint, terraced dynamics and good activity for each wind section of the band may make this the perfect "middle" piece for your adjudicated band festival thisyear!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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