Tout le monde connaît la célèbre Czárdás de Vittorio Monti dans sa version pour violon et piano. Désormais il existe une version pour xylophone et Orchestre d?Harmonie. L?enregistrement de la partie soliste a été réalisé par le percussionniste flamand Patrick De Smet devenu célèbre pour son interprétation (les yeux bandés !) de l?œuvre Circus Renz au festival « Night of the Proms ».

Prenez vos deux meilleurs percussionnistes, leur stage à l'avant et laisser éblouir votre audience avec cette fonctionnalité astucieuse pour deux joueurs de xylophone (ou 1 xylophone et 1 marimba). En utilisant le classique ' Dueling Banjos, 'Richard Saucedo a écrit une grande nouveauté avec des pièces de bande facile d'accompagnement. / Orchestre D'Harmonie

Gallop for Xylophone and Band-Erinnerung an Zirkus Renz (?Souvenirs du cirque Renz?) de Gustav Peter est un célèbre morceau de bravoure pour tous les xylophonistes. Et tous ceux qui ont déjà goûté aux réactions enthousiastes des musiciens et du public à l?interprétation de cette œuvre seront ravis de savoir qu?il existe désormais une autre pièce dans la même veine à prévoir pour un prochain concert. Running on Wood de Stefan Schwalgin comble cette attente et propose une œuvre pour xylophone qui contient tous les ingrédients d?un futur grand succès : tempo énergique de jolies lignes mélodiques et de la diversité.

Par SAKAI ITARU. Séjournant au coeur des Alpes japonaises, Itaru Sakai est surpris par le doux parfum et les couleurs des fleurs. Il se laisse inspirer par la beauté harmonieuse qui se révèle devant ses yeux. Débute alors le délicieux festival des fleurs alpines. La conversation est animée. Un solo de xylophone apporte une touche de légèreté, une valse fait virevolter le développement, puis vient un adagio qui égrène les solos et mène vers un finale brillant. / Niveau : 4 / Date parution : 1905-06-28/ Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Five well-known Christmas carols simply arranged in Latin American style for classroom ensemble of virtually any size with the optional addition of guitar drum kit or rhythm instruments. They will sound effective simply using xylophones and glockenspiels but recorders flutes or violins may be added if available. The various possibilities are endless and the teacher should plan out each arrangement in advance with consideration of the instruments available the availability of individual players and so on. Invariably though the simplest treatment of the arrangement is the most effective.

Par SAKAI ITARU. Séjournant au coeur des Alpes japonaises, Itaru Sakai est surpris par le doux parfum et les couleurs des fleurs. Il se laisse inspirer par la beauté harmonieuse qui se révèle devant ses yeux. Débute alors le délicieux festival des fleurs alpines. La conversation est animée. Un solo de xylophone apporte une touche de légèreté, une valse fait virevolter le développement, puis vient un adagio qui égrène les solos et mène vers un finale brillant. / Niveau : 4 / Date parution : 1905-06-28/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Score-Carlos Surinach's Ritmo Jondo (Flamenco) for Concert Band.The three flamenco rhythms Ritmo Jondo were first performed in a concert of Percussion music at the Museum of Modern Art New York on May 5 1952. This original version is written for Clarinet Trumpet Xylophone Tamburo Timpani and three hand clappers. Its duration is six minutes.In an extended version for chamber orchestra - about twenty minutes in length - Ritmo Jondo was commissioned by the Rothschild Foundation for a ballet with choreography by Doris Humphrey. It was first performed at the Alvin Theatre New York on April 15 1953 bythe Jose Limon Dance Company.The present version for Concert Band eight minutes long has been orchestrated by the composer.

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH / JONES NATHAN (Arr.). Tchaikovsky composed his twelve character pieces for piano, The Seasons, while he was writing his popular ballet, Swan Lake. Each piece in The Seasons depicts a different month of the year in Russia. The original publication of September: The Hunt included an epigraph at the start of the piece-a small poem by Alexander Pushkin. This energetic arrangement for symphonic band by Nathan Jones opens with an octave fanfare between the winds and brass. Tchaikovsky\'s colorful harmony speaks here, with passing chromaticism adding color to the music. The fanfare theme is transformed in the quiet central section, still shifting to the minor mode with short solo passages for flute, bassoon, trumpet, xylophone and oboe (cued in flutes). The segue back into the opening fanfare is clever, with the notes leading through several keys before concluding in the major with a short reprise of the initial theme. / Date parution : 2022-09-20/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH / JONES NATHAN (Arr.). Tchaikovsky composed his twelve character pieces for piano, The Seasons, while he was writing his popular ballet, Swan Lake. Each piece in The Seasons depicts a different month of the year in Russia. The original publication of September: The Hunt included an epigraph at the start of the piece-a small poem by Alexander Pushkin. This energetic arrangement for symphonic band by Nathan Jones opens with an octave fanfare between the winds and brass. Tchaikovsky\'s colorful harmony speaks here, with passing chromaticism adding color to the music. The fanfare theme is transformed in the quiet central section, still shifting to the minor mode with short solo passages for flute, bassoon, trumpet, xylophone and oboe (cued in flutes). The segue back into the opening fanfare is clever, with the notes leading through several keys before concluding in the major with a short reprise of the initial theme. / Date parution : 2022-09-20/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Vittorio Monti was born on January 6 1868 in Naples (Italy). His musical education (violin and composition) he enjoyed at the conservatory there. Around his 30's Monti went to Paris. He earned a living as a conductor and wrote several ballets and operettas. In his last years Monti died in 1922 he devoted himself to teaching and composing. His famous 'Czardas' has made his name known even today. Initially the czardas was a Hungarian folk dance but after the mid-nineteenth century it was even a dance for the upper-class. Czardas begins with a slow introduction the Lassan (slow and sad) and then the fast part Friska follows. Czardas is not as somany people think typical gypsy music.