Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Nicholas Baratta
Grade: 2.5
The masters go to the circus. In this ingenious Nick Baratta arrangement, you'll hear the elephants and laugh at the clowns but all through the themes provided by Dvorak, Liszt and others. A musical tribute to these classic master-composers and all so very familiar from the rings of the circus. A real barn-burner, this one will have your students on the edge of their seats!
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Arranger: James Curnow
Grade: 2.5
Duration: 06:00
Not only is this work a fine piece of original writing, but it also fits the need for a patriotic program number. James Curnow has intertwined his own thematic material with fragments of 'America The Beautiful.' The finale is a grandiose section the incoporates both themes.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Robert W. Smith
Grade: 3.0
Musically depicting the lake community from Ohio, American Portrait #1 features two distinct musical "images". Following the introductory fanfare, "On the Town" captures the cheerful hustle and bustle of the community as the town comes to life each morning. "Mist of the Morn" recalls the distinct image of green rolling hills in the beautiful countryside wrapped in the morning mist as the sun rises above the horizon. (6:19)
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Thomas Bough
Grade: 2.5
Beginning as a stately Latin dance which builds into a vibrant celebration, all performers get involved and set the mood by combining foot taps and clapping to produce a memorable start to this piece. Carefully notated percussion parts contribute authentic sounds and provide students an opportunity to play congas, bongos, and timbales using traditional notation. Performers and audiences alike will enjoy the multicultural content and the emotional rise and fall of this engaging composition.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Thomas Bough
Grade: 2.5
Beginning as a stately Latin dance which builds into a vibrant celebration, all performers get involved and set the mood by combining foot taps and clapping to produce a memorable start to this piece. Carefully notated percussion parts contribute authentic sounds and provide students an opportunity to play congas, bongos, and timbales using traditional notation. Performers and audiences alike will enjoy the multicultural content and the emotional rise and fall of this engaging composition.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Thomas Doss
Grade: 2.0
Duration:
In vivid, imaginative musical pictures Clockwork tells the story of a young girl who finds it hard to get up in the mornings: Every evening Barbara sets her alarm so that she doesn’t sleep in and isn’t late for school. Today, as usual, she can´t make it, and lets her alarm ring again and again. She dozes off and dreams of lovely things - landscapes and stories - while time flies by and the clock continues to tick. As the big living room clock loudly strikes eight, however, she jumps up, startled - school has already begun! Now she’ll be late again…
Drop Zone is written in a heavy metal style in which even the woodwinds can play along! After a calm introduction, the listener is startled by a pounding heavy metal theme. Then it’s calmer again, but don’t be fooled: head banging is the order of the day…
This piece for a variable five-part ensemble is ideal for anyone who wants to bring some variety into the concert programme. This powerful number is unstoppable. An optional part for electric guitar is included, which gives even more emphasis to the whole piece. A modified and simplified drum part is also provided. Rock on!
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: C Debussy Arranger: B Lewis
Grade: 2.5 Duration 2.51
This delightful band transcription of a Debussy piano classic is an ideal teaching tool. The piece will help teach tempo, dynamics, and rhythms such as the sixteenth-eighth-sixteenth pattern. The perfect selection for your next concert or contest.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Andreas Schulte
Grade 2.5 Duration 3:00
Many off-beats - and in all parts - coupled with a catchy melody, convey a cheerful optimism. As the title says, Here We Go! Andreas Shulte's original entertaining work makes an ideal opening piece for any fun concert.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Arr. Michael Story
Grade: 2.5
Duration: 3:45
"Three delightful contrasting traditional Spanish melodies are seamlessly interwoven for concert or contest programming. Including the revered ""Asturias"" by Isaac Albéniz, Granados' ""Spanish Dance #5"" from his Twelve Spanish Dances, and the well-known ""España Cañi,"" a paso doble by Pascual Marquina Narro featuring a wide variety of ensemble textures. Intellectual, musical, and worldly! (3:45)"
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Arr. Michael Story
Grade: 2.5
Duration: 3:45
"Three delightful contrasting traditional Spanish melodies are seamlessly interwoven for concert or contest programming. Including the revered ""Asturias"" by Isaac Albéniz, Granados' ""Spanish Dance #5"" from his Twelve Spanish Dances, and the well-known ""España Cañi,"" a paso doble by Pascual Marquina Narro featuring a wide variety of ensemble textures. Intellectual, musical, and worldly! (3:45)"
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Jan de Haan
Grade 2.5 Duration 6:05
The instrumental music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews, especially those of Eastern Europe, is known as klezmer. This terminology was originally used in Jewish cultural life as the name of a musician who plays at weddings. At Jewish weddings, which usually last several days of days, klezmer musicians played not only dance music but also ceremonial music—for example during the wedding ceremony, and also music that was listened to during the wedding feast. Originally, there was no special term for this style of music. It was simply referred to as ‘Jewish wedding music’. In the 1970s, the music—which is actually a fusion of different influences—enjoyed a resurgence in popularity and came to be known as klezmer. This music contains not only the sounds of the Balkans, but also influences of oriental and gypsy music, too.
Jan de Haan used no original klezmer melodies for Klezmeriana, but composed a series of sound-alike in an instrumentation for fanfare orchestra.
Categories: New & Recent Titles, LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Jacob De Haan
Grade 2.5 Duration 5.45
This work is named after the Turkish word for ‘landscape’: Manzara. The title describes the marshland in Rheinland-Pfalz, which in 150 years has gradually been transformed into a wild landscape through the harvesting of peat. Different musical elements such as fugues and rhythmical patterns, as well as beautiful melodic themes, depict several aspects of the evolution and occurrences of this region. An exciting and challenging concert or contest piece!
Category: LIGHT CONCERT - Grade 2.5 Composer: Victor Lopez
Grade: 2.5 Duration: 3:15
Introduce your students to the tender music sounds of the 1930s and 40s. Filled with colorful melodies, countermelodies, and lush harmonies, this piece will certainly be a highlight on your concert program for junior high and high school bands alike. A sure winner! (3:15)
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