JM50925 – FINNEGAN'S WAKE - Parts & Score

Categories: Entertainment - Light Concert Works, FINISHER - Grade 3.5
Composer: Archie Potter
Arranger: Michael Kummer

Grade 3.5
Duration 3.32

Irish Street Ballad.

Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street
A gentleman Irish mighty odd:
He had a tongue both rich and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried a hod.
Now Tim had a sort of a tip-plinway,
With the love of the liquor he was born,
And to help him on with his work each day,
He'd a drop of the craythur every morn.

CHORUS

Whack fol the dah, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake,
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake!

One morning Tim was rather full
His head felt heavy which made him shake,
He fell from the ladder and broke his skull,
So they carried him home his corpse to wake.
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him out upon the bed
With a gallon of whiskey at his feet
And a barrel of porter at his head.

CHORUS

His friends assembled at his wake
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch;
First they brought in tay and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch.
Ms. Biddy O' Brien began to cry
"Such a neat clean corpse did you ever see?
Arrah, Tim avourneen! Why did you die?"
"Ah, hould your gab!" said Paddy McGee.

CHORUS

Then Maggie O' Connor took up the job;
"Och Biddy," says she, "you' re wrong I'm sure";
But Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
And left her sprawling on the floor.
Oh then, the war did soon enrage;
'Twas woman to woman and man to man;
Shillelagh law did all engage
And a row and a ruction soon began.

CHORUS

Then Mickey Maloney raised his head
When naggin of whiskey flew at him;
It missed, and falling on the bed,
The liquor scattered over Tim.
Bedad! He revives, see how he rises;
And Timothy rising from the bed
Says "Whirl your liquor round like blazes,
Thanam o'n dhoul', do ye think, I'm dead?"

CHORUS

* literally: "The devil take you"

JM72562 – PARADIDDLES - Parts & Score

Category: FINISHER - Grade 3.5
Composer: Gary Fagan

Grade: 3.5

Duration: 5:50

"Percussionists must learn both the rudiments and the scales. This piece provides the wind players some exposure to the rudiments. ""Paradiddles"" creates patterns played by the winds that mimic two types of paradiddles—the single paradiddle and the double paradiddle. This may be the first piece for concert band inspired by, and based on, percussion rudiments. (5:50)"

JM72563 – PARADIDDLES - Score only

Category: FINISHER - Grade 3.5
Composer: Gary Fagan

Grade: 3.5

Duration: 5:50

"Percussionists must learn both the rudiments and the scales. This piece provides the wind players some exposure to the rudiments. ""Paradiddles"" creates patterns played by the winds that mimic two types of paradiddles—the single paradiddle and the double paradiddle. This may be the first piece for concert band inspired by, and based on, percussion rudiments. (5:50)"

JM64687 – SCRAMBLE - Parts & Score

Categories: OPENERS - Grade 3.0, FINISHER - Grade 3.5
Composer: Todd Stalter

Grade: 3.0


A rousing concert opener or closer, "Scramble" is intended to aurally depict two characteristics of its title---collecting things together in a disorderly way, and moving quickly with a sense of urgency. The theme and its harmonic structure are presented at the beginning, and its musical "parts" are imaginatively separated and combined in unique and haphazard combinations throughout the piece, all at a frantic pace. (2:05)

JM102635 – WEDDING DANCE - Parts & Score

Categories: New & Recent Titles, FINISHER - Grade 3.5
Composer: Jacques Press
Arranger: Herbert Johnston
Transcribed: Frederick Fennell

Grade 3.5
Duration 3.00

from Symphonic Suite "HASSENEH" ( The Wedding )

Little is know about Jaques Press - he spent many of his years in Hollywood, mainly scoring music for the motion picture industry. He was a fine pianist and is the composer of "Disconcert" for piano.