Music for a Celebration

A collection of Celebration Songs arranged for easy Keyboard. Each song features melody line, vocals, chord displays, suggested registrations and rhythm settings. Includes 'Let The Good Times Roll', 'I'm Sitting On Top Of The World', 'Congratulations' and 'Oh Happy Day'. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Clavier Electronique et Ligne Mélodique

This fun-filled and easy-to-use book offers an educational way to celebrate the holidays! Each chant presents three stepping stones to rhythmic reading: practice the spoken ostinatos first, transfer to body percussion next, and then play on classroom instruments. PDF files on the included Data CD make it a piece of cake to print or project the music notation in your classroom. Twenty holidays, four seasons of the year, and even a happy birthday chant are included! Recommended for grades 2 and up. / Divers

As Recorded By Bob Brookmeyer And The New Art Orchestra. Par MULLIGAN GERRY. Celebration, a 4-movement suite, was written for and premiered by Gerry Mulligan at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Germany in 1994. Recorded by Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestra on New Works (Challenge CHR 70066), featuring Scott Robinson, baritone sax. 'The good will and beautiful playing of the musicians can not be described in words... just music. They have my eternal gratitude for making my life and music shine.' Bob Brookmeyer Bob Brookmeyer (b. 1929) began writing music at age 14 and also began playing the valve trombone, arriving in NY in 1952. After joining Stan Getz in 1953, he replaced Chet Baker in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, remaining with Mulligan for nine years, writing much of the music for the Concert Jazz Band. With Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, he wrote ABC Blues, Willow Weep For Me and St. Louis Blues, all seminal additions to the big band literature. After returning from California in 1978, he became Musical Director of the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and wrote some of the finest music for that band including American Express, Ding Dong Ding, First Love Song, Hello and Goodbye, and Skylark. In the 1980s he wrote for both Jazz and Classical Orchestras and in 1994 formed the New Art Orchestra, an 18-piece ensemble of mainly European musicians. They have recorded two CDs for the Challenge label and commenced touring in 2001. A book on Composition is in the works and a DVD on Band Teaching is also planned. During the past decade, Brookmeyer has composed a diverse collection of jazz material, chamber music, and large orchestral works./ Répertoire / Big Band

Par PASTORE CARMINE. Now is the chance to introduce your young band to the music of Carmine Pastore! This outstanding composer has written many fine and memorable works. In HANUKKAH CELEBRATION he applies his considerable skill to the Grade 1 arena! Composed to honor all the families who get together each year in celebration of Hanukkah, this new Grade 1 piece gives every band director the chance to program a more pleasing and culturally diverse winter concert. Considerations such as light percussion playing, a light legato style in the winds, and subtly shifting moods make this a great style study tool for young bands as well as the perfect holiday performance piece. If you add this one to your musiclibrary you’ll use it again and again. / Niveau : 1 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band

It's a hands-on, active-learning approach to rhythm! Eighteen familiar songs for holidays throughout the year are presented with notated rhythm patterns and kinesthetic stick routines: tap them on your knees, click them together, cross with a neighbor, and more! The simple rhythms can be learned by rote or read off the reproducible student pages. Plus, concise background information makes it easy to lead a discussion about featured holidays and the history and culture of each piece. Recommended for grades one through six. / Formation Musicale

A Musical Celebration of America's Westward Expansion-There's gold in them thar hills! Gold has been discovered in the hills of California. Land is being given away to settlers willing to make a fresh start in the newly explored regions of the American West. Cowpokes andminers farmers and trappers gamblers and adventurers of all kinds are making their way west to chase the promise of the American Dream. They come by way of wagon train horseback stream boat and rail. Go West combines music history and drama to explore important facts about the westward expansion of early United States and discovers that real gold is not always the kind made into ingots and baubles. Real gold is discovered in the ideas andinspiration derived from new lands fresh starts and attainable dreams abundant in the promises of the land of the free. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school performers this historic and entertaining 35-minute musicalfeatures 7 original songs connecting script John Jacobson's choreography and a helpful production guide. The Teacher Edition includes full script accompanied songs Production Guide and choreography suggestions. Available:Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals only) Performance/Accompaniment CD Performance Kit/CD (Teacher 20 Singer books P/A CD). Performance Time: Approx. 35 minutes. For Grades 4-8.

Par SPARKE PHILIP. L’Orchestre d’Harmonie du Comté du Huntingdonshire, situé dans l’Est de l’Angleterre, a été fondé en 1993. En 2001, les musiciens invitent le compositeur Philip Sparke, pour un week-end de travail consacré à ses oeuvres. De cette collaboration chaleureuse, naît l’idée de passer commande d’une pièce pour le 10ème anniversaire de la création de la formation, célébré en 2003. Philip Sparke leur compose A Huntingdon Celebration. Cette ouverture courte et vive débute avec une introduction écrite en forme de fanfare qui s’inspire du thème principal, exposé, dans un premier temps, par les clarinettes et les saxophones, puis par l’Orchestre d’Harmonie en entier. Cuivres et boisétablissent une conversation musicale qui mène à l’introduction d’un second thème tout en legato, sur un accompagnement bouillonnant en croches. Le passage central, plus lent, développe un choral dans les registres ténors. Le tempo premier revient ensuite et le thème initial est exposé à nouveau, amorçant la reprise de la fanfare d’ouverture qui vient conclure l’oeuvre sur une note brillante. / Niveau : 3 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par SPARKE PHILIP. L’Orchestre d’Harmonie du Comté du Huntingdonshire, situé dans l’Est de l’Angleterre, a été fondé en 1993. En 2001, les musiciens invitent le compositeur Philip Sparke, pour un week-end de travail consacré à ses oeuvres. De cette collaboration chaleureuse, naît l’idée de passer commande d’une pièce pour le 10ème anniversaire de la création de la formation, célébré en 2003. Philip Sparke leur compose A Huntingdon Celebration. Cette ouverture courte et vive débute avec une introduction écrite en forme de fanfare qui s’inspire du thème principal, exposé, dans un premier temps, par les clarinettes et les saxophones, puis par l’Orchestre d’Harmonie en entier. Cuivres et boisétablissent une conversation musicale qui mène à l’introduction d’un second thème tout en legato, sur un accompagnement bouillonnant en croches. Le passage central, plus lent, développe un choral dans les registres ténors. Le tempo premier revient ensuite et le thème initial est exposé à nouveau, amorçant la reprise de la fanfare d’ouverture qui vient conclure l’oeuvre sur une note brillante. / Niveau : 3 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Laughter is a precious gift. In this heartwarming new nativity musical, the wise men bring joy a-plenty, along with their traditional gifts. Children will love the entertaining play and the seven catchy songs, including a hand-jiving finale and the cool backing tracks. Gold, Frankincense And Mirth! features all the favourite Christmas characters, from Gabriel to Herod, and creates a warm and uplifting end of term celebration for children, teachers and parents. It's another gem from Sheila Wilson, composer of 'Hosanna Rock!', 'Rock around the Flock!', 'Scrooge' and 'Christmas Stars (The Xmas Factor)'.This musical is for key stages: 1-2 (ages 5-11) and features songs in a variety of styles, including funky, rocky, a lullaby and a finale medley.This Music Book contains a Piano accompaniment, Guitar chords, Vocals, optional Harmonies, Kazoos, Handbells, Recorders, Glockenspiels and Sleigh bells. / Voix

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Fanfare and Celebration was commissioned by the Brass Band of the Western Reserve (Dr Keith M. Wilkinson, director) to celebrate their 15th anniversary. Based in north-west Ohio, the band was formed in 1997 and was competing in the Championship Section of the North American Brass Band Championships in less than three years. The first performance of Fanfare and Celebration took place in Akron, Ohio, on November 10th 2012. The opening Fanfare features the cornet section, in two groups standing either side of the band. A central horn theme brings a change of mood before the cornets take the lead once more. Celebration follows seamlessly andcontinues the declamatory style until a cantando theme in uneven meter is introduced. A transformed recapitulation ushers in a return of the Fanfare to close the work. / Niveau : 4 / Ouverture / Répertoire / Brass Band

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Le Midwest est une vaste région du centre des États-Unis, entre la Côte Est et l'Ouest américain. Fondé le 19 septembre 1857, l’Orchestre d’Harmonie Municipal de Decatur (Illinois, États-Unis) est une des plus anciennes formations civiles américaines. Depuis sa création, l’orchestre n’a jamais cessé de participer activement à la vie florissante de la cité, se produisant lors de concerts en intérieur ou en plein air, de parades ou de certains événements spéciaux. À la demande de Jim Culbertson, directeur musical de l’orchestre, Philip Sparke fut chargé d’écrire une pièce qui illustre la longue et riche histoire de la formation à travers un répertoire varié qui s’étend de l’universclassique avec ses ouvertures et marches jusqu’aux oeuvres originales et arrangements d’oeuvres récents. A Midwest Celebration s’inspire de quelques célèbres ouvertures orchestrales du XIXe siècle écrites par de grands compositeurs tels que Berlioz, Verdi et Suppé. L’introduction est florissante. Tout s’apaise lorsqu’apparaît une mélodie aux courbes harmonieuses, jouée par les cors, les clarinettes et les saxophones. Mais à peine commence-t-il à se développer que le thème est brutalement interrompu par l’intervention des trompettes qui ouvrent un vertigineux passage Vivace, illuminé par des fanfares brillantes (cuivres) et une profusion d’éléments d’ornementation (bois). Les cors reprennent l’exposition de la mélodie initiale soutenus par la douceur ondulante des flûtes. Soudain, les lignes mélodiques du Vivace resurgissent et balayent la musique pour progresser vers leur intensité maximale, point de rencontre entre les deux thématiques qui mènent le composition vers sa conclusion. / Niveau : 5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie