The Nutcracker for Classical Players

SKU: YM.GTP01101028

ISBN 9784636107241.

This is a collection of 10 well-known classical melodies selected for beginner players. The left page has two main accompaniment parts, and the right page has one main melody part, so you can focus playing your part.

SKU: KN.08201S

UPC: 822795082012.

Your students will love playing this selection from one of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's most famous works. Expertly arranged for grade 1 players, it allows young groups to experience this great Nutcracker selection from the Christmas classic. Each set includes three copies of the 3rd Violin/Viola T.C. part and an optional piano part. Duration 1:15.

SKU: TA.TSPB-44

In Mainstream Mallets, Jason Hammond-Wood has compiled over 20 short, 2-mallet solos with optional piano accompaniment to challenge more experienced middle school students while offering high school percussionists more performance opportunities.

All selections are familiar tunes, including classical favorites such as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Anitra's Dance (from Peer Gynt), and The Barber of Seville. Also included are nonclassical melodies like The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Entertainer, and On Wisconsin (the university's fight song).

All pieces are playable on xylophone, vibraphone, or marimba, and two of the solos are adapted to be performed as duets! The optional piano accompaniment may be performed with a pianist, or by using the provided audio accompaniment tracks.

Mainstream Mallets includes these 24 pieces:

On Wisconsin | J.S. Hubbard and Charles D. Rosa | (Med-Easy, :35)
The Happy Farmer | Robert Schumann | (Med-Easy, :51)
Bourree | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:51)
Infernal Galop | Jacques Offenbach | (Med-Easy, 1:06)
Sonatina | Muzio Clementi | (Medium, 1:07)
Hungarian Dance No. 5 | Johannes Brahms | (Medium, 1:47)
Pizzicati | Leo Delibes | (Med-Easy, 2:07)
Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:33)
The Barber of Seville | Gioachino Rossini | (Medium, 1:22)
The Royal Fireworks | George Frideric Handel | (Medium, 1:19)
Anitra's Dance | Edvard Grieg | (Medium, 1:40)
The Entertainer | Scott Joplin | (Medium, 2:10)
Spring Season | Antonio Vivaldi | (Medium, 1:47)
The Stars and Stripes Forever | John Phillip Sousa | (Medium, 2:12)
Badinerie | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Advanced, :57)
The Chromatic Galop | Franz Liszt | (Medium, 1:19)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Paul Dukas | (Med-Advanced, 1:43)
Trepak [Russian Dance] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Med-Advanced, 1:10)
Turkish March | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | (Med-Advanced, 1:52)
Csardas | Vittorio Monti | (Med-Advanced, 1:44)
Back Home Again | James F. Hanley | (Medium, 1:18)
Raindrop | Frederic Chopin | (Medium, 1:45)
Bourree [Duet Version] | Johann Sebastian Bach | (Med-Easy, 1:53)
Sleeping Beauty [Duet Version] | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | (Medium, 1:35)

Mainstream Mallets ships as a fully-bound book with a sleek cover design by Bob Beck of Montreal's Design Society. Also included are reference recordings of each solo, PDF parts for duets, PDF parts for the piano accompaniment, and audio tracks with piano only, so that players can perform with just the piano accompaniment.