Grade: 1.0
Here's a charming and unique march-style arrangement of the well-known Shaker melody "The Gift to be Simple." Countermelodies and contrasting question-and-answer sections add plenty of musical interest without over-extending the technique of your beginning band. Add a slice of Americana to your next concert!
Grade: 1.0
Here's a charming and unique march-style arrangement of the well-known Shaker melody "The Gift to be Simple." Countermelodies and contrasting question-and-answer sections add plenty of musical interest without over-extending the technique of your beginning band. Add a slice of Americana to your next concert!
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£50.50 
Beginning Pops – Grade 1
These traditional themes have never sounded so good at this easy of a level! Written in 2/4 rather than cut time, this arrangement includes interesting parts for all instruments – including the low brass and percussion. Featuring Marine's Hymn, Anchors Aweigh and The Caissons Go Rolling Along, this is the perfect concert closer for beginning bands. (2:00)
Grade 1.0
Duration 2.05
Already a classic in the grade 1 repertoire, Anne McGinty's composition sounds sophisticated without being hard. It features effective use of polychords, modal harmonies and a driving percussion part. Written with just a single tempo, this is sure to make your beginners sound great!
Available
£40.00 Grade 1.0
Duration 2.00
Recommended Repertoire for The Scottish Concert Band Festival.
There's nothing quite like a three-ring circus, and the composer captures this ageless excitement in his grade 1 work in 2/4 time. Sidesplitting Clowns, breathtaking aerialists and amazing acrobats. Delight your audience with this memorable march! (Correalated with the Best In Class Band Method, Book 1, Page 17)
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Grade 1.0
A shout of acclamation will certainly be heard when this brilliant opener is performed at the beginning of any concert. Created to set a dramatic pace for any type of concert opening, Bravo features Brass fanfares and Woodwind Flourishes, punctuated by Percussion accents that will get the audience to their feet even after the first piece on the programme.
Available
£36.00 
Available
£32.00 Grade 1.0
Duration 2.01
Standard of Excellence Series.
The very words, castles and kings, evoke visions of days gone by. With imagination one can almost see the massive castles perched high on the hills, where lived the kings of yesteryear, with their moats, drawbridges, immense gates, cavernous dungeons, and banquet halls. It was in these great halls, often lit with smoke-bellowing torches, that great feasts and celebrations, with all their pageantry, took place.
The concert march, Castles and Kings, was composed to portray the regality, splendor and pageantry of the celebrations of the kings who inhabited those majestic castles.
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Grade 1
Duration 1:40
For over 35 years I have had the honor of being a music teacher and my life has been positively influenced by the tousands of students that I have had the privilege of teaching. Celebration March was composed for the 6th grade beginning members of the Madison County Central School Band for their 2006-2007 school year. It is my hope that elebration March will provide students with a song that they will enjoy learning to play and provide other music ducators with a teaching tool that can be used to help motivate and encourage their students.
- Gary Gazlay
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£28.00 Grade 1.0
Duration 2.50
Chesapeake March is a parade-style march which begins with flutes and drums quietly playing the opening melody, as if approaching from afar. The full band enters in and restates the initial theme while clarinets play a smooth legato trio section. Flutes and drums close the piece giving the impression of the band marching away and fading into the distance.
Correlates With Best In Class Bk. 1 Page 15 /SOE Bk. 1 Page 17
Grade 1.0
The opening Chorale section of this very appealling beginning band piece introduces the theme that is then used in the Canon that follows. Skillfully designed to pass the melody to every section, this is a very rewarding piece for beginning groups. First published in 1984.
Grade 1.0
Duration 2.23
Standard of Excellence Series.
The Chugach (choo’gach) Mountains create a scenic backdrop for Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage. Much of this mountain ranges within the Chugach National Forest, which covers 5.6 million acres (roughly the size of New Hampshire). The tallest mountain in the Chugach Range is Mt. Marcus Baker at 13,176 feet. Alaskan Eskimos and Indians have lived in the Chugach region for thousands of years.
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Grade 1
Duration 2:10
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£45.95 Grade 1.0
Duration 2.00
Recommended Repertoire for The Scottish Concert Band Festival.
This mainstay of grade 1 band literature features solid scoring and memorable melodies. Stirring strains of trumpets and flutes carry the main melody after the opening fanfare. This march offers easy and advanced snare drum parts that can be played simultaneously. A must for every young band library!
Correlates With Best In Class Bk.1 Page 12 / SOE Bk.1 Page 13
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