Categories: New & Recent Titles, BIGGIES - Grade 1.0 Composer: William Owens
Grade 1.0 Duration 2.0
Throw off the bowlines and catch the wind in your sails with this exciting musical maritime adventure! The majestic opening statement builds the anticipation of sailing while the brisk allegro section typifies the journey itself. The ship’s bell will also add character to the music – a bold adventure on the open seas!
This celebratory work opens with a soaring melody that is energized by a rhythmic ostinato. Moving into a lush, lyrical theme, the music builds emotionally by use of a powerful and ever robust orchestration before evolving into a variation of the opening theme. A grandiose, slower tempo brings the piece to a riveting conclusion.
This superb work is being added to the Scottish Concert Band Festival Repertoire List in September 2011 - for use in the 2011 Regionals and beyond.
Written in a grand film scoring style, Rossano Galante's Journey to the Lion's Castle takes the listener on an exciting musical excursion of various moods and styles. The impressive opening strains feature woodwind flourishes and powerful brass lines. A graceful and majestic middle section offers a change of pace before the ending segment drives to a breathtaking finish. For mature bands, this could become a programming highlight!
Categories: New & Recent Titles, BIGGIES - Grade 4.5 Composer: Brian Balmages
Grade 4.5 Duration 6:45
Add some Cajun flavor to your program with this piece that centers around the musical culture of Louisiana. Spirited, powerful and playful melodies weave together as the ensemble and audience experience a wide range of musical styles. Subtle references to Eternal Father, Strong to Save celebrate the proud men and women from the area who served their country. A culturally-inspired work with an incredibly powerful conclusion!
Categories: BIGGIES - Grade 2.0, New & Recent Titles Composer: Robert Sheldon
Grade 2.0
This stunning new work from Robert Sheldon is a sure winner for your next concert. The emotional introduction of the theme provides your players with great expressive opportunities. The Allegro Spirito section takes the same theme of quiet reflection and transforms it to a theme of pride and heroism, leading to a triumphant conclusion. Robert Sheldon has done it again! This title is available in SmartMusic.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Benjamin Yeo
This concert march is one of two that were written to fulfill a commission from the grammar school of Xinmin in Singapore and was premiered at the concert celebrating that schools 65th anniversary in 2010. Benjamin Yeo’s colourful orchestration creates an exciting soundscape by contrasting virtuosic melodies with lush, full sounds. All sections of the band are represented well in Jubilance, while the ample voice doublings create a full sound that will surprise even the largest bands!
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer / arranger: Fergal Carroll
Jubilo meaning 'joyful' was commissioned to celebrate the birthday of a man "who loved life and lived well"! Carroll's fingerprint (very Irish) rhythmic style is in evidence but remarkably user friendly - no perceived difficulties here. A piece technically suitable for a reasonable school band (two high "G"s for Horns 1 and 3) and which has prominent parts for the percussion section.
Categories: Young Concert Band, New & Recent Titles Composer: Harry Belafonte Arranger: Michael Brown
Grade 3.0 Duration 22:00
Most famously recorded by legendary singer/entertainer Harry Belafonte in 1961, this Calypso-flavored hit enjoyed renewed popularity from the 1988 movie Beetlejuice. With a catchy melody and infectious dance beat, this entertaining arrangement brings life to the concert stage.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer / arranger: Eric Nathan
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"Jump Start" was not only inspired by the bursting energy of the spark needed to "jump-start" a vehicle, but also by the individual words of "jump" and "start" which instilled a feeling of leeping to go.
The piece bustles with a jazzy, lively energy and features an angular, leaping melody filled with starts and stops that occur in fits and spurts.
The melody runs throughout the piece and is explored not only through jazzy big-band flourishes and weaving textures, but also through warmly glowing, reflective and slightly bluesy chords that peacefully linger and allow the melody's lyrical qualities to shine.
Categories: BIGGIES - Grade 1.0, New & Recent Titles Composer: Scott Watson
Grade 1.0 Duration 2.59
This piece provides notes and rhythms but no tempo, character, dynamics, or articulations. Enter into the creative process by discussing, auditioning, and choosing musical expressions, all while learning in a fun, hands-on way. (Correlates with Sound Innovations for Concert Band, Book 1, Level 3).
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Rob Wiffen
Intermediate Difficulty.
Just as you are is a laid back, almost ‘smoky’, number where the relaxed tempo and ‘bluesy’ notation is prevalent. The piece is structured in ABA form that offers the listener a sense of familiarity when the opening theme returns. This is a contrasting item that leans on the saxophone section to provide a beautifully calm, unhurried feel.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composers: Stefani Germanotta, RedOne, Aliaune Thiam Material: Lady Gaga Arranger: Paul Murtha
Arranged in a driving dance groove and with interesting parts for all players, here is a great-sounding yet easy version of this popular Lady Gaga hit.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Andrew MacKereth
Advanced level of difficulty.
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This piece was originally written for Wind Band in 1996 for the inaugural rehearsal of the Salvation Army Symphonic Wind Band.
Firstly the popular Sunday school song "Give Me Oil in My Lamp" followed by the chorus " Sing Hosanna" and the hymn-tune "Praise My Soul the King of Heaven".
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Carl Davis
The Keystone Kops was a series of silent comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen. They first appeared in the 1912 film Hoff meyer’s Legacy but it was the 1913 feature The Bangville Police that confirmed their popularity. The Keystone Kops were renowned for making mistakes, particularly with a great deal of energy and activity, and all done with a major lack of coordination. Carl Davis’s energetic theme provides a fitting musical portrait of a silverscreen phenomenon.
Category: New & Recent Titles Arranger: Johnny Vinson
Grade: 2
Featuring three key songs from Michael Jackson's diverse musical career, this concise and easy to learn medley features Man in the Mirror, I'll Be There and Thriller.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, POP & ROCK TUNES Grade 2.0 Composer: Michael Jackson Arranger: Johnnie Vinson
Grade 2.0 Duration 4.45
Featuring three key songs from Michael Jackson's diverse musical career, this concise and easy to learn medley features Man in the Mirror, I'll Be There and Thriller.
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