Category: New & Recent Titles Composers: Wayne Vaughn, Maurice White Arranger: Lorenzo Bocci
Difficulty: 3
Duration: 3m 40s
Let’s Groove is a song performed by American group Earth, Wind & Fire, taken from album Raise!, written by Maurice White and Wayne Vaughn. The song peaked inside the top twenty in countries including the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and other component charts in America. Let’s Groove was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. With this arrangement Lorenzo Bocci wanted to recreate the same atmosphere of the original version.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composers: Wayne Vaughn, Maurice White Arranger: Lorenzo Bocci
Difficulty: 3
Duration: 3m 40s
Let’s Groove is a song performed by American group Earth, Wind & Fire, taken from album Raise!, written by Maurice White and Wayne Vaughn. The song peaked inside the top twenty in countries including the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and other component charts in America. Let’s Groove was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. With this arrangement Lorenzo Bocci wanted to recreate the same atmosphere of the original version.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Jodie Blackshaw
Duration: 2:05
Letter from Sado is an exciting new piece for young band based on a Japanese haiku of the same name. Sado refers to Sado Island in Japan in which various artists, religious and military leaders were sent in exile many years ago. The island has historically had a strong community of taiko drummers and as such, the piece incorporates optional homemade taiko drums.
Blackshaw writes: “To capture the idea of interpretation and the concept of reading between the lines, the students are invited to become decision makers about particular sections in the music. For example, the opening and closing sections of the piece use the same material, which is a selection of repeated melodic figures. The students themselves decide how to play these figures as individuals, in small teams and then as a whole band. Their decisions include ideas regarding tempo (how fast?), dynamics (how loud?), and articulation (smooth, short, or hard?). To inspire them, we use the haiku poem; i.e., the opening section invites the students to play the material as if it were a 'stormy, wild sea' and the closing section invites the students to play the same melodic figures but this time, draw their inspiration from 'Heaven's River,' or as we know it, the Milky Way.
In-between, there is an elaborate, heavily textured section that becomes increasingly powerful. The music doesn't rest harmonically until the whole band plays in unison. These multiple layers of sound represent the many thoughts and ideas that would have surrounded those individuals sent to Sado Island in exile, the final unison is representative of their own breakthrough experience sending them on a pathway to inner peace and acceptance.”
Embrace your players' creativity, offer them your trust, and see how far Letter from Sado can take your band!
This programmatic work depicts three great Mythological Gods: Perseus, the Greek hero and legendary founder of Mycenae, Penthos, the spirit of grief and lamentation, and lastly, Zeus, who ruled as King of the Gods on Mount Olympus.
I: “Perseus: Slayer of Medusa”, is a rousing, dramatic piece with a heroic trumpet theme. The piece develops into a flowing, melodic section that is accompanied by a rhythmic pulse in the lower reeds and brass. The main theme returns with a grand, stately tempo incorporating the full ensemble. It ends with a coda that, like the sword that Perseus wields, is fast, exciting, and rhythmic.
II: “Penthos: the Spirit of Grief” is a lyrical, plaintiff meditation on human dissolving into a contemplative mood.
III: “Zeus: God of Sky and Thunder”. To represent the strength and power of the Dyaus Pita or Sky Father, this section opens with a powerful brass theme and stalwart orchestrations. The second theme uses warm, rich thematic material before moving into a recapitulation of the first melodic idea. The coda utilizes chordal brass to bring this epic work to its stirring conclusion.
This lively Overture describes the launch of a Space Craft and its subsequent flight. The first two bars should be an impressive Crescendo leading to the Fanfares. [Accent the long notes and play crochets staccato]
At letter B Clarinets and Horns should sing out over the Accompaniment. At letter C Trombones should give a good solid sound for the Trumpets to play over.
Pay careful attention to Woodwind at 48 and Brass after letter D [playing quavers neatly and not too loud] At letter E Trumpets/Alto Sax/Piccolo/Euphonium should dominate. 0n the D>S> Make sure to pick up the original Tempo leading into the "Star Wars" like Coda. At letter F the sustained sound works if players just breathe where necessary. At 110 let the trombone theme dominate and keep the pace driving towards the end.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Barrie Gott
Advanced level of difficulty.
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A Big Band style number that has become very popular. Australian composer Barrie Gott is a Salvationist and bandmaster of Brisbane City Temple. He began his musical career as a professional trumpet player but later concentrated on composition. He was resident with Brisbane Excelsior Band for five years before taking up his current appointment. Light Walk was written in 1986 for the Star Lake Camp in New Jersey, USA and was the first piece in big band style ( Count Basie ) to find its way into the Salvationist repertoire.
Category: New & Recent Titles Arranger: Michael Sweeney
Michael uses When Johnny Comes Marching Home and Battle Cry of Freedom combined with original music to create a dramatic musical montage, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and now the 200th birthday of Lincoln himself. Dur 4:10
Categories: New & Recent Titles, OPENERS - Grade 1.5 Composer: Robert Sheldon
Grade 1.5 Duration 1.50
The grandeur and vibrancy of Vancouver’s harbor is represented in this exciting piece for developing bands. Take a musical journey under the Lion’s Gate Bridge and into the Pacific Ocean while being surrounded by majestic mountains and incredible scenery. (1:50)
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