Categories: New & Recent Titles, WARM UPS Composer: Russell Gray
The fastest way to improve the quality of your band ? - whatever the level or grade of your band.
A systematic approach to how to produce quality in both rehearsals and performance.
Russell Gray shares his years of experience in producing top quality performances with bands - over fifty winning performances...
and counting, and gives you the tools to do it with your band !
“Messanoia”, based on the Greek word “Metanoia”, meaning change of mind.
This method is designed to help your ensemble develop a sense of togetherness in the way they respond to the music they see in front of them. It will help them cultivate a kind of hive mindset; thinking as one.
By using this book during the first five to ten minutes of your rehearsal, you will increase the productivity and improve your ensemble’s ability to respond to visual stimulus from the written music and from the conductor’s gestures.
The method is divided into five parts, enabling you to focus on specific areas of the ensemble’s techniques
The purchase includes :
01. The Messanoic Method - A Conductor's Toolkit
02. The Messanoic Method Hymn Tunes - Score
03. The Messanoic Method Hymn Tunes - Set of Parts
Categories: New & Recent Titles, BIGGIES - Grade 5.0 Composer: Brian Balmages
Grade 5.0 Duration 7.48
This short, four-movement work is based on traditional dances that have each gone through some type of transformation to bring them roaring into the 21st century. Playable individually or all together, movements include the fun Polka, playful Waltz, passionate Tango, and the whimsical, yet extremely energetic Cakewalk. (8:00)
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Michael Jackson Arranger: Michael Brown
Grade: 3.0 Duration 5.30
Here is a terrific setting for concert band that displays the variety and depth of music spanning Michael Jackson's career from his early days with the Jackson 5 up through his association with Quincy Jones.
Includes: 01. I Want You Back, 02. I'll Be There, 03. Rock with You, 04. Thriller 05. Man in the Mirror.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, BIGGIES - Grade 0.5 Composer: Brian Balmages
Grade 0.5 Duration 1.30
Your students will become spies in this secret midnight adventure. The music suggests the various obstacles faced in this sneaky encounter as they head for their mission objective. The entire work builds steadily until they are almost caught, only to disappear once again under cover of darkness. An ideal piece that is sure to be a favorite!
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Nigel Hess
Millennium Bridge describes the pedestrian’s journey across this wonderful new landmark bridge over the Thames, starting at the imposing Tate Modern, crossing the busy river, and moving onwards to St. Paul’s Cathedral with its bells ringing out over the great city.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Lalo Schifrin Arranger: Paul Lavender
The unmistakable and familiar theme from the TV series and feature films.
Hal Leonard's innovative Flex-Band series is designed to provide exciting music for bands with incomplete or unbalanced instrumentation. Written using just five parts (plus percussion), these arrangements will work with virtually ANY combination of brass, woodwinds, or even strings.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Michael Geisler
The White Wale
Difficulty: 3
Duration: 7m 40s
Moby Dick is a programmatic concert piece based on the novel of the same name, written in 1851 by Herman Melville. The piece describes the fateful journey of whaler Captain Ahab, who blinded by hatred, hunts the seas for the white whale, Moby Dick, who tore off his leg. The parts are: Overture, Captain Ahab, Deep Blue Sea, The White Whale and Hymn to the Sea.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Michael Geisler
The White Wale
Difficulty: 3
Duration: 7m 40s
Moby Dick is a programmatic concert piece based on the novel of the same name, written in 1851 by Herman Melville. The piece describes the fateful journey of whaler Captain Ahab, who blinded by hatred, hunts the seas for the white whale, Moby Dick, who tore off his leg. The parts are: Overture, Captain Ahab, Deep Blue Sea, The White Whale and Hymn to the Sea.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, SLOW TUNES - Grade 2.5 Composer: Thomas Doss
Grade 2.5
The Latin word Momentum has come to mean many different things in our language: a short period of time, a force, or a speed of movement. In our current times of around-the-clock high speed and energy, the composer wanted to write a refl ective and meditative piece that focuses on the moment at hand. An ideal point of rest for your concert programme!