Categories: BIGGIES - Grade 2.0, New & Recent Titles Composer: Brian Balmages
Grade 2.5 Duration 3.00
Rhythm becomes the focus of this contemporary work that is extremely suitable for contest or festival. As the title suggests, various grooves and riffs are built into the ensemble throughout as the piece develops harmonically, melodically, and rhythmically. Extremely interesting and a welcome approach for bands at this level, this contemporary work is likely to be the most memorable portion of your concert or festival performance.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Jonathan Dove Arranger: Philip Littlemore
Handel called Britain ‘the ringing isle’ because when he moved to London, he heard bells ringing everywhere: great bells in church towers, and handbells in some of the first private houses he visited. The sound of people ‘ringing the changes’ is a peculiarly British sound of celebration. Within The Ringing Isle, Dove incorporates some traditional change-ringing patterns, from ‘Grandsire Doubles’, ‘Oxford Treble Bob Minor’ and his own version of ‘Plain Bob Major’.
“Rise: A Gay Games Anthem” was commissioned by the Federation of Gay Games to accompany the raising of its official flag. This composition is heroic, uplifting, evocative of achievement, reverent, and welcoming. The work has global appeal, referencing the spirit embodied by the organization’s three guiding principles: Participation, Inclusion, and Personal Best.
“Rise: A Gay Games Anthem” was commissioned by the Federation of Gay Games to accompany the raising of the its official flag. This composition is heroic, uplifting, evocative of achievement, reverent, and welcoming. The work has global appeal, referencing the spirit embodied by the organization’s three guiding principles: Participation, Inclusion, and Personal Best.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Gerald Oswald
Grade 3.5 Duration 6:30
This composition tells the exciting story of Blackjack, the pirate ship. She emerges from the fog, sails billowing as she cruises the ocean. Suddenly a strange ship appears on the horizon and a battle ensues. Blackjack fires a salvo of canons and hijacks the ship. Loaded with plundered treasure, the crew merrily hoist the sails of the Blackjack and embark on their next adventure.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, Music from the MOVIES - Grade 2.0 Composer: Malcolm Arnold Arranger: Robert Longfield
Grade 2.0
From the classic WWII film from 1957 Bridge on the River Kwai, here is Malcolm Arnold's famous march that incorporates Kenneth Alford's Colonel Bogey March along with Arnold's original counterline melody. The whistling part is optional but adds a unique and authentic touch.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, BIGGIES - Grade 2.5 Composer: Tyler S. Grant
Grade 2.5 Duration 4.00
Rivers have often served as a metaphor for life’s journey – starting in one place and traveling to somewhere unknown. This metaphor is depicted in a serene and contemplative work that uses a variety of colors and harmonies unique to young bands. Opulent mallet parts interact with optional piano to depict water gracefully cascading downwards. Gorgeous! (4:00)
Categories: BIGGIES - Grade 4.0, OPENERS - Grade 4.0, New & Recent Titles Composer: Robert Sheldon
Grade 4.0 Duation 5.22
This spirited overture features tuneful and rhythmic melodies along with some poignant lyrical moments of expression. Bright, bold, and brimming with personality, this work is a great way to open a concert program!
Category: New & Recent Titles Arranger: Ted Ricketts
Grade 3.0
From a musical decade of high energy and wild diversity, here is a medley of purely rock hits from those fabulous seventies. Includes: Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple), Night Moves (Bob Seger), Dust in the Wind (Kansas), and More Than a Feeling (Boston).
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