Categories: New & Recent Titles, LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 3.0 Composer: Thomas Doss
Duration: 4:07 Difficulty: 3
The stands are packed, two world-class teams are on the field, the smell of hotdogs fills the air and fans chant and scream. All of these contribute to create stadium fever. The composer has conveyed these elements in the composition including the aspect integral to the fever: an atmosphere full of excitement.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 1.5 Composer: Traditional Irish Arranger: Douglas Wagner
Grade 2.0 Duration 3.06
Based on the Celtic music of Ireland and Scotland, often modal in tonality and simply stated melodically, this piece presents a richly woven tapestry of local culture, history, folklore, and deeply personal experiences. The free-flowing, lyrical melodic style of this well-known Irish tune enhances dynamic balance, breath support, phrasing, and stylistic nuances.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, Music from the MOVIES - Grade 2.0 Composer: John Williams Arranger: Johnny Vinson
Grade 2.0
Featuring a blend of exciting new themes along with familiar favorites from earlier Star Wars movies, here is a great-sounding medley for young players.
Categories: FLEXI - BAND, New & Recent Titles Composers: Paul Murtha, John Williams
Grade 2.5
Scored with flexible instrumentation options, here is a beautifully adpated medley of the primary themes from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. You'll hear dramatic new material along with well-known melodies of your favorite characters.
Instrumentation:
5-Part Flexible Band and Opt. Strings Works with : Brass only Woodwind only Percusion OR all of them together.
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: Brian Balmages
Grade 4 Duration 2:45
Premiered by the Ohio All-State Band, this stunning and emotional arrangement pays homage to the amazing performance by Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis at the 1991 NBA All-Star Game. That performance visibly affected many in the audience in a deep way, and this arrangement is designed to evoke those same emotions. True to the original, yet with a contemporary spin that does not go too far. Amazingly powerful.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, SLOW TUNES - Grade 1.0 Composer: Robert Sheldon
Grade 1.0 Duration 2.30
Beautiful melodic lines thoughtfully embrace the hope of a granted wish upon seeing the first star in the night sky. Based on the endearing nursery rhyme, this piece seeks to capture the simple, yet uplifting nightly moment to which all can relate. (2:30)
Category: New & Recent Titles Composers: Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb Arranger: Lorenzo Bocci
Difficulty: 2
Duration: 4m 00s
Stayin’ Alive is a disco song by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack. The song was written by the Bee Gees members (Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb). It was released on 13 December 1977. Upon release, Stayin’ Alive climbed the charts to hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of 4 February 1978, remaining there for four weeks. It is one of their signature songs.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composers: Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb Arranger: Lorenzo Bocci
Difficulty: 2
Duration: 4m 00s
Stayin’ Alive is a disco song by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack. The song was written by the Bee Gees members (Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb). It was released on 13 December 1977. Upon release, Stayin’ Alive climbed the charts to hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of 4 February 1978, remaining there for four weeks. It is one of their signature songs.
Category: New & Recent Titles Arranger: Paul Murtha
The music of Stevie Wonder is timeless and continues to resonate even today. Paul Murtha has taken his best-known hits and created this upbeat and hard-hitting medley for the concert stage. Includes: Sir Duke, You Are the Sunshine of My Life, I Wish and Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Brian Balmages
Grade 4.0
This emotional escape ushers the listener into a world of slow motion and tranquility, where one can take a moment to stop and catch his breath. Complex harmonies seamlessly overlap with rising and falling expressions of longing. A breathtaking climax stuns the listener before an aura of calm takes over, reminding everyone to stop and take a moment. This piece is certain to find a special place in your heart.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Thomas Doss
Difficulty: 6 Duration: 18m26s
Stone Age, Middle Age and New Age are the three distinct sections of this single-movement work at the highest level. Whilst Stone Age has a menacing and ancient atmosphere, an old German song can be made out in Middle Age - vocals, guitar, recorder or even bagpipes can be incorporated into the melody, which gradually gives up merry Celtic dances. In New Age, the ‘present’, the Celtic sounds finally connect with untamed, rousing dance rhythms.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, POP & ROCK TUNES - Grade 3.0 Composer: Jona Lewie Arranger: Stephan Schwalgin
Stop the Cavalry is a song about a British soldier at the front line whowrites a fictional letter to "Mr Churchill", begging him to send the armyhome because he'd prefer to spend Christmas with his darling. Thisrelaxed anti war song with a generous touch of British humour willcertainly help your band make a successful start or end to any concert.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Filip Ceunen
Difficulty: 2.5 Duration: 5m25s
The Story of King Arthur leads us back into the Middle Ages-and straight to the legend of Arthur himself. The Belgian composer Filip Ceunen sketched the famous legend in three linked movements Camelot, The Holy Grail and Excalibur, thus creating an exciting work that is suitable for any wind band at a lower level.
Category: New & Recent Titles Composer: Otto M. Schwarz
Difficulty: 2.5 Duration: 6m9s
What do the American Joseph Kittinger and the Austrian Felix Baumgartner have in common? They both jumped from over 30km high with a parachute. While Kittinger’s attempt on 16 August 1960 was from a height of ‘only’ 31,333 meters, Felix Baumgartner broke this record on 14 October 2012 with a breath-taking 38,969 meters.
This composition Stratosphere describes the adventure, from climbing into the capsule with help of a balloon, to the short pause in the stratosphere, and the jump, the turbulence during the free-fall descent, and finally the opening of the parachute and the safe landing.