SKU: KJ.SO392F

UPC: 8402704851.

Menuet from Le tombeau de Couperin is an exquisite sampling from the repertoire of Maurice Ravel. Deborah Baker Monday has retained the purity of the original and has set it so that emerging young orchestras can learn and enjoy this enchanting music.

SKU: KJ.SO381C

UPC: 8402704800.

The eloquent opening of Back at Home, played by the cello and bass sections, sets a rich tone for what is simple, yet thought provoking. This ballad is gorgeous in every way and it asks players and audiences to connect the music to a personal experience that gives way to being back at home.

SKU: KJ.W43BC

ISBN 9780849705663.

SKU: KJ.SOP8F

SKU: KJ.SO160C

UPC: 8402700250.

For 2 orchestras (Adv & Int) for large group festivals. Also playable with advanced parts only.

SKU: KJ.ZB414

UPC: 8402702699.

Everyone can join the party! This funky second line shuffle will have the band and the audience grooving all the way down in New Orleans.

About Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method

The Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method is designed to help both you and your jazz ensemble students explore the world of jazz through easy-to-use Rhythm Studies, Improvisation Studies, Instrument Specific Exercises, and full ensemble jazz charts. The approach is non-theoretical and aurally based. Each part book comes with an accompaniment CD, so like every great jazz player throughout history, students learn to play jazz by listening!

SKU: KJ.B330C

For band and narrator, this stirring tribute features portions of the Preamble To The Constitution, The Declaration Of Independence, and The Pledge Of Allegiance. For full band or band with strings, this selection makes a patriotic contribution to any ceremony or concert. Try using Ceremony Of Allegiance as a prelude to the National Anthem!

SKU: KJ.ZB336

UPC: 8402700007.

A distinctive and exciting example of the mambo style with authentic rhythms in the horns, accompanied by a driving mambo beat in the rhythm section.

About Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method

The Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method is designed to help both you and your jazz ensemble students explore the world of jazz through easy-to-use Rhythm Studies, Improvisation Studies, Instrument Specific Exercises, and full ensemble jazz charts. The approach is non-theoretical and aurally based. Each part book comes with an accompaniment CD, so like every great jazz player throughout history, students learn to play jazz by listening!

SKU: KJ.ZB366

UPC: 8402701731.

Snowdogs Rock was commissioned by the Central Middle School Jazz Ensemble in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The piece introduces some different musical elements in the context of a familiar groove (rock) and familiar chord progression (blues). The bridge sections (bars 17-24 and 41-48) feature tone clusters that are somewhat unusual in jazz ensemble pieces. Play the piece on a cold winter's night to heat up the band and the audience!

About Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method

The Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method is designed to help both you and your jazz ensemble students explore the world of jazz through easy-to-use Rhythm Studies, Improvisation Studies, Instrument Specific Exercises, and full ensemble jazz charts. The approach is non-theoretical and aurally based. Each part book comes with an accompaniment CD, so like every great jazz player throughout history, students learn to play jazz by listening!

SKU: KJ.WB331F

Brilliant, clever and brimming with excitement, another ingenious Himes masterpiece! The objective of Thingamajig is to create a whimsical contraption of sound in the same spirit as the late Rube Goldberg, which appeared as cartoons in the New York Evening Mail. It uses melodic and rhythmic patterns - with help of conventional and unconventional percussion as well as verbal effects from the band members - to convey a unique attempt at inventiveness. The enthused percussion section will use instruments such as a metal pipe, kitchen pans and a bicycle horn.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.

SKU: KJ.SO397C

UPC: 8402704896.

SKU: KJ.ZB425F

UPC: 084027042861.

Big Sky is an easy straight eigthth groove with open harmonies and lush colors. Eveyone in the band gets a chance to play a melody -- even the trombones! This chart will compliment any program.

SKU: KJ.WB518

UPC: 8402707073.

SKU: KJ.SO317F

UPC: 8402703175.

Kitillen is an adjective from the Middle English describing playful teasing and unpredictability. A bit of mixed meter (3/4 and 4/4) is thrown in for extra fun! This piece is in C Major and features the signature Atwell sound.

SKU: KJ.SO157F

3 movements entitled, The Quiet Trail, Ridin' the Ridge, and Campfire comprise Ms. Gazda's newest composition.