Our First Band Concert

Here's that easy holiday piece that will work out nicely on your first band concert. The ranges are limited and the rhythms are mostly quarter notes in the winds. The bell part is very important and featured throughout. This will certainly bring plenty of holiday cheer to your mid-year concert.

Score-Samuel Barber's First Essay arranged by Joseph Levey for Concert Band. Full score. Previously only available on rental this new publication of Barber's FirstEssay (ca. 1930) is a welcome addition to the literature. This edition includes newly discovered historical information on Barber's personal edits and revisions - including adding original music - to thearrangement prior to his approval for publication. Set in the original orchestral key this arrangement by Joseph Levey has been performed by several of the most prestigious concert bands. This deserves a seriouslook for mature groups.

You only have had a couple of months of lessons and already you are to play a solo at your band's annual gala concert. in a big concerthall on a huge platform and in front of people from your own town or village. Now there's something ! This circumstance inspired Jerry Bensman into writing your very first solo piece with band accompaniment. The solo part may be played by various instruments and was kept very simple indeed. Parts are available in various transpositions and keys.

Join world-renowned composer arranger teacher judge and clinician Richard Saucedo as he guides you through a system of teaching music fundamentals that has earned acclaim and success at both the state and national levels. ThisDeveloping the Individual DVD presents innovative ideas for teaching today's best symphonic bands featuring Saucedo's proven strategies for increasing music achievement. Chapters include: The First 20 Minutes of Rehearsal Listen/Sing/Play Will You Folks Just Play in Time? Those Pesky Long Tones Band Kids Love Scales Band Kids Love Chorales Individual Practice Time The Big Picture and Isolated Practice Rooms (Wenger).

Score-The suggestion that I write my autobiography was made at a time when anyone who did not write one risked being called eccentric. It became and still is a major sport among the oldsters. Some of the contemporary books are goodreading indeed. One of the best of them is the result of an enormous research job as is brought out in the introduction to the work. Imagine spending long hours and traveling many miles to find out about oneself: I am sure Iwould be one of the first to be utterly bored by the subject. It was not so easy however to dismiss the whole idea as my friends presented it.The only answer I could think of with any degree of enthusiasm was this one written purely for whatever pleasure it could give. My own part of the pleasure is mostly in utilizing the musical language of the concert band with its apparently inexhaustible colors and its fabulous vitality.The form(if the term has any right being here) is seven short pictures each about two minutes long of my own personal seven ages. The two-minute idea may be the result of the loudspeakers spread all over the hotel in Arizona where thepiece was composed. There was no getting out of ear-shot of those two-minute gems - in the dining rooms around the swimming pools by the putting green everywhere-but I honestly do not believe any of them crept into what I waswriting. I do not believe I paid much more than passing attention to them.Part Two:IV. 1916: Mo. to N.Y.V. 1919: The Merrill MiracleVI. 1926: A Parisian in ParisVII. 1935: What Was theQuestion?The three of my seven ages in Part One took us to the legal end of my youth. Gathering up my unspectacular belongings including my entire fortune of less than two hundred dollars I swooped down on New Yorkfor no more reason than that it was New York and had a street in it called Broadway. The music borrows two or three rhythms from the era but the only note-for-note quote is what the bugler at Camp Funston played every morning

Score-From Samuel Barber's acclaimed First Symphony here is a masterful adaptation for band of the stunningly beautiful lyric movement. While carefully preserving Barber's original intent Richard L. Saucedohas created a setting that effectively suits the band medium.

The title First Light refers to the arrival of dawn – specifically the composer's experience of dawn in the mountains surrounding Lake Garda in northern Italy. There the light of the sun arrives in distinct stages:the night sky begins to brighten quite early though the sun remains hidden behind the mountains for several hours. Abruptly the first direct ray of sunlight crests the mountaintop bringing with it intense palpable heat. Thetown below nestled in the narrow space between the water's edge and the steep mountain slope remains in darkness for a while longer until the sun ultimately sends light cascading down the mountainside illuminating everything.(Grade 5) Dur: 8:30

First Choice est une marche simple légère et joyeuse avec une mélodie grisante. Un doux solo de basse et une partie trio enlevée forment le point de départ d?un jeu en syncopes qui ne manquera pas de ravir votre auditoire. Sans nul doute First Choice se doit d?être votre premier choix !

Irving Berlin's famous tune gets a swinging ragtime treatment from veteran writer Tom Johns. After an opening statement from the percussion section the theme is heard and developed throughout the entire band. Feature your first chair musicians in a small dixie band soli. You'll need the bones on the tailgate for this one.

(O Come O Come Emmanuel)-For that first holiday concert here is a wonderful and very easy setting of O Come Emmanuel in an expressive style.

Landscapes was commissioned by Glasgow 1990 to mark the city's designation as the Cultural Capital of Europe in 1990 with funds provided from the City of Glasgow District Council. The first performance was in June 1990 in Glasgow.

For Concert Wind band and Pre-recorded-Alex Shapiro first brought electroacoustic music-- paired with using an everyday object as an instrument-- to middle school bands with her 2010 piece PAPER CUT. Now comes ROCK MUSIC possibly the very first geo-electroacoustic minimalist band piece largely devoid of melody and of rhythm. Conceptual and atmospheric the music features compelling textures from instruments voices and rocks that weave a wind band into a piece of sonic fabric stretched across linear time. As the notes slowlycrawl melt and scrape over a sonic landscape in random irregular ways were connected to the ancient glaciers which carved the world we know and which we strive to protect. Like PAPER CUT ROCK MUSIC can be equally appreciated by mature bandsand their audiences as well. To perform ROCK MUSIC youll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is providedin the printed piece. Dur: 4:15