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£39.99Barnyard Bagatelle - Mike Hannickel
Kids can make weird sounds. Every conductor of young bands has discovered this maxim time and again. Why not put those skills to good use? Barnyard Bagatelle mixes well-known barnyard folk songs like Mary Had a Little Lamb, OldMacDonald, The Old Grey Mare, Shoo Fly and more with the animal sound effects your students have studiously perfected over the years. Audition your band for vocal imitations of a Pig, a Big Dog, a yappy Little Dog, a Cow, aclucking Chicken and many more: then have some real musical fun.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£50.50
Skill Stretchers For Band - Hoefle
Not a warm-up...not a chorale. Skill Stretchers are a way to efficiently move your band beyond the first five notes by working to extend ranges, accidentals and key signatures (in a way that students discover for themselves!). In addition, Skill Stretchers prepare the clarinets to go over the break, introduce lip slurs for brass as well as octave slurs for other woodwinds. Accents, flams, paradiddles and nine-stroke rolls are included for the snare drum. Octaves and arpeggios are introduced to mallet percussion. Skill Stretchers are a supplement to any band method. Used for a few minutes daily, they provide a systematic way to conquer many of the individual challenges that occur with each instrument.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£50.50
Thumbs Up! - Hoefle
Help your clarinets over the break, your flutes jump octaves, and your brass players buzz sirens all within this fun concert tune! Thumbs Up incorporates clarinet register key pop-ups from low C to G and low F to C in an otherwise simple part to give them lots of practice while you prepare for your performance! Entertain your audience as you educate them on the techniques their children are learning!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£58.50
Skill Stretchers For Band II - Hoefle
Do you wish your clarinets would practice going over the break? Do you want your trumpets to practice lip slurs and your flute players to remember those high note fingerings? Do your percussionists forget the rudiments? Are you struggling to introduce chromatic fingerings in a heterogeneous classroom setting? Skill Stretchers For Band II is a set of exercises for group practice of all these concepts AT ONCE! A follow-up to Skill Stretchers For Band, this invaluable teaching tool will help your band move beyond B flat concert scale efficiently and effectively. Prepare your students for the next performance level in just minutes a day!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£82.95
Listen To Me - Hoefle
Looking to try something new at your next festival or concert? "Listen to Me" is a band piece that was inspired by electronic music. The percussion parts feature a simple ostinato with a hemiola that results in a polyrhythmic feel. Solos/solis speak out over the crowd to share their views. Your students can bring their own energy and passion to make this piece a statement!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£41.50
Rite of Passage - Brian Balmages
A beginning band piece limited to a 6-note range, Rite of Passage will have your band playing together in very little time. Utilizing smaller chamber sections as well as the full band, this is an excellent teaching piece. With no clarinets over the break and no trumpets higher than a written A, this is a very easy Grade 1 concert march.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£92.50
Urban Dances - Erik Morales
Drawing inspiration from elements of today's popular music, this serious concert piece focuses on rhythm as the primary developmental tool. Featuring a large battery of percussion, the piece uses the full gamut of colors available to the concert band. Heroic figures in the brass soar over the rhythmic pulses as the piece continues to build to a dynamic conclusion. Innovative and fresh! (4:10)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£75.50Essence of Memory - BJ Brooks
In the fall of 2021, as occurs countless times across the United States, band director Darin Johns was traveling with his marching band to a Friday night football game. Tragically, a wrong-way driver struck the Andrews Band bus, taking the lives of both Darin and the bus driver. Over the next few months, tributes to Darin came in waves, culminating in a 1,000-member parade with 30 different bands at Christmastime. The Association of Texas Small-School Bands, of which Darin and the Andrews Band were a part, commissioned me to write a piece in honor of Mr. Johns. The music reflects the waves of memory that one experiences when contemplating the deepest of thoughts. First nebulous, sometimes sharply focused, resonating motifs, highs and lows. The four-chord chaconne figure is the unifying core of the work. It grounds the various melodies as they enter and return, sometimes densely paired, sometimes transparently isolated. The themes are structured as an arch form ABCBA, but as they recur, they are added together, giving them more density, as if the memories overlap, before the calmness, first heard as an ethereal haze, recurs.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£332.99Cantica de Sancto Benedicto - Jacob de Haan
Cantica de Sancto Benedicto is a three-movement work for mixed choir, soprano solo, concert band and organ ad libitum - on Latin lyrics that relate to the life of Saint Benedict. It was commissioned by the city of Norcia in Italy, whereBenedict was born. The holy Benedict (480-547) is considered the founder of monastic life within the Roman Catholic Church. His enormous influence is especially owing to his monastic rule, the Regula Benedicti.Jacob de Haan has named the movements ofCantica de Sancto Benedicto after the Holy Trinity: the Father (Gloria Patri), the Son (Gloria Filio) and the Holy Spirit (Gloria Spiritui Sancto). The lyrics of thehymn Gemma Caelestis, (which, like the othertexts, were originally used in Gregorian chant) are voiced by the choir. To this purpose, Jacob de Haan composed new, choral-like, homophone music. The sequence Laeta Quies is rendered by the soprano; the verses (divided over the threemovements) are alternated with those of Gemma Caelestis. The work closes with an impressive grand finale, in which texts are used from the proprium of the mass in honor of the saint's day of the holy Benedict (11 July). Notes to the conductor:For this cantata, there are various possibilities for the performance. The first involves a performance in which the choir and soprano parts are only accompanied by organ. Such a performance has several advantages: since the band never soundstogether with the choir and the soprano, no balance problems occur, and even a performance with a large concert band and a small cantata choir is conceivable. A special layout is also possible - with which you can set up a three-dimensionalperformance in a church. For example, the choir can sing in the chancel, accompanied by the choir organ; the soprano can stand on the gallery, accompanied by the main organ; and the band can be seated in another part of the church. The choir couldalso sing from a gallery. With layouts like this, working with two conductors is advisable. Choral parts available separately.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£76.99
City of Lights - Andrew Watkin
On a warm spring evening, Andrew Watkins takes you on a musical flight over the beautiful French capital Paris, the City of Lights. In this descriptive and imaginative piece, the famous sights of one of the world's greatest cities is artistically described by one of Europe's most respected composers.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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