The Old Castle

SKU: YM.GTP01100211

ISBN 9784636101478. 8.5 x 12 inches.

14 arrangements for 11 songs from Castle in the Sky with color picture pages.

SKU: HL.374543

ISBN 9781705150337. UPC: 196288017196. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.

Castle on a Cloud is a haunting ballad from the musical, Les Miserables. The song is sung by Little Cosette who dreams of a better life where all children are loved and free.

SKU: HL.3746214

UPC: 888680738440. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Ed Sheeran continues to dominate the pop charts, and here is an energetic mash-up of two of his biggest hits. Shape of You starts us out with a strong rhythmic pulse, and then we slip into high gear with the driving Castle on the Hill.

SKU: HL.374544

ISBN 9781705150344. UPC: 196288017202. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches.

“Cast le on a Cloud” is a haunting ballad from the musical, Les Misérables. The song is sung by Little Cosette who dreams of a better life where all children are loved and free.

SKU: KJ.JB88F

UPC: 084027039779.

Climb the Castle Walls! transports the listener to the days of yore. The energetic rhythms, bold melody, and inventive harmonies create images of castles, royalty, and knights involved in an important quest, while still lying comfortably under the fingers of an intermediate ensemble.

SKU: AP.50893

ISBN 9781470665951. UPC: 038081584560. English.

Castles and Dragons, by Todd Stalter, is a piece your students are going to love! As they embark on their journey toward the castle, the knights must confront and slay a dragon that threatens the local village. The ensuing battle ends with the defeat of the dragon, and the victorious knights return in a noble procession to their home. This best-selling composition serves as an ideal introduction to program music and is available in FLEX format, for just about any combination of four instruments. (3:40)

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SKU: AP.50893S

ISBN 9781470665968. UPC: 038081584577. English.

Castles and Dragons, by Todd Stalter, is a piece your students will love! The knights must confront and slay a dragon threatening the local village. The ensuing battle ends with the dragon's defeat, and the victorious knights return in a noble procession to their castle. This best-selling composition is an ideal introduction to program music and is available in FLEX format for just about any combination of four instruments. (3:40)

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SKU: PR.465000110

ISBN 9781598062090. UPC: 680160575442.

Castl e Creek was written by Dan Welcher in celebration of the Aspen Music Festival's 40th anniversary, and served as a special tribute to the Festival's longtime President, Gordon Hardy. Castle Creek itself is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River on which the Aspen Music Festival campus (as well as Hardy's home) is built. Gordon's initials (G.A.H.) are used as the musical basis for the fanfare, which is centered on the ascending pitches G, A and B, and reflects the upward motion and positivity of the Aspen Music Festival itself. For advanced players. Duration: 5'.
Program Note by the ComposerThere is no “secret program” or hidden meaning in this lively, five-minute work: it was intended as a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Aspen Music Festival, and as a special tribute to the Festival’s longtime President, Gordon Hardy. The title CASTLE CREEK refers to a tributary of the Roaring Fork River on which the Aspen Music Festival campus (as well as Mr. Hardy’s home) is built.The work pays homage to Gordon Hardy by utilizing his initials (“G.A.H.”) as a musical motive: the three letters correspond to the pitches G, A, and B). This three-note group forms the basis of the fanfare that opens the work, and it also serves as an ostinato, a bass line, and a general means of organizing the work’s tonal centers. Because the three notes are in ascending order, the ever-upward direction of the Aspen Music Festival and the positive energy of Gordon Hardy are readily evident.The athletic fanfare that begins the work (marked “noble, but energetic”) is scored for brass and percussion alone, and may be played as a separate piece. The rest of the ensemble joins at the conclusion of the fanfare, and a spirited tune in 9/8 issues from the woodwinds. After this is given a thorough workout, a middle section in faster 3/4 time provides machine-like energy. Perhaps it is the energy of the Festival, in high gear. At the height of this, the music of the fanfare returns in broad open notes in the brass, with the machine still pulsing in support. The overture ends in a burst of motion, with the three-note motive in its highest transposition.My colleague and former student Paul Bissell made this excellent transcription from the orchestral original.

SKU: FJ.ST6191S

English.

Travel to the mountains of Romania in this work that depicts the site of Bran Castle, better known now as Dracula's Castle. The dark harmonic character of the work tells the tale of a forgotten past while a haunting melody portrays the very Prince Vlad Dracula of Wallachia. Students will certainly be enticed by this enchanting work!

SKU: AY.PCMP102

ISBN 9790302118770.

Gers hwin... Lost in Tunisia is a jazz-oriented composition that makes use of exotic scale patterns as well as Gershwinian blues motifs. Vacillating between the two genres, the piece attempts to meld them into a unique stylistic composite.

SKU: AP.50864S

ISBN 9781470666774. UPC: 038081585383. English.

Composed to portray the regality, splendor, and pageantry of medieval nobility, Alnwick Castle Fantasy, by Amy Webb, provides dramatic, mature-sounding music that teaches the notes of the concert C minor scale. Very few accidentals are scattered throughout the piece, and because the ranges are comfortable for students at this level, they can concentrate on dynamics, articulations, balance, and blend. Celebrate the castle featured in the Harry Potter movies! (1:35).

SKU: ST.LC5

ISBN 9790220200274.

In its day The Castle of Andalusia by Dr Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), with its gothic sentimentality and wild romantic action, was a novelty. The castle, the forest, the cave-in-rock, the bandits, mistaken identities and sudden recognitions were to become the stock-in-trade of the Romantic movement and its poetry. In this facsimile edition, first published by John Bland in 1782, Robert Hoskins introduces us to a composer, who, like his near contemporaries Arne, Boyce, Storace and Hook (to name a small selection) had no interest in the extremes represented by the fire and languor of the Italians, the sophisticated artificialities of the French or the intellectual and emotional complexities of the Germans. The English style was fresh and direct, lyrical and 'airy' and its most characteristic manifestation is in entertainment music.

SKU: CL.023-3768-01

A musical portrait of the famous Black Castle, located in the city of Matsumoto, Japan, is vividly brought to life through themes that are both dramatic and bold. Featuring the percussion section throughout, The Distant Castle is educationally sound programming for any concert setting and your percussionists may enjoy the optional opportunity to perform on traditional Japanese Taiko drums. The culture, beauty and history of Japan come to life in this work for the beginning band by James Swearingen. Very effective!

SKU: PR.16500099F

UPC: 680160637423.

Castl e Creek was written by Dan Welcher in celebration of the Aspen Music Festival's 40th anniversary, and served as a special tribute to the Festival's longtime President, Gordon Hardy. Castle Creek itself is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River on which the Aspen Music Festival campus (as well as Hardy's home) is built. Gordon's initials (G.A.H.) are used as the musical basis for the fanfare, which is centered on the ascending pitches G, A and B, and reflects the upward motion and positivity of the Aspen Music Festival itself. For advanced players.