SKU: AP.BD9575C
UPC: 029156165852. English.
With stirring patriotic fervor, Mike Story has crafted a fantasy based on America and America the Beautiful. This is a quick rehearsing and technically non-challenging arrangement that will find multiple uses throughout any band's school year. A tribute to the 'Greatest Nation on Earth!' (1:59).
SKU: AP.45699
UPC: 038081514383. English. Katherine Lee Bates.
A patriotic fantasy for choir and band, this soaring rendition of America, the Beautiful is a crowning jewel for choral or combined concerts. Sturdy and proud, it features many unison and two-part vocal passages with band-friendly keys to ensure good balance between the voices and instruments. Don't have a band? Perform with the stunning SoundTrax CD or the well-crafted piano reduction.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: AP.45700
UPC: 038081514390. English. Katherine Lee Bates.
SKU: AP.45698
UPC: 038081514376. English. Katherine Lee Bates.
SKU: AP.BD9669
UPC: 029156213195. English. Scored by Michael Story.
This famous melody became very popular during the American Revolution and was first published in 1778 as a patriotic hymn. It served as the unofficial national anthem during that war. Michael Story infuses this tune with satisfying harmonic structuring and presents it in a version playable by the youngest band or ensemble. A most satisfying and sophisticated presentation. (1:51).
SKU: AP.BD9669C
UPC: 029156213201. English. Scored by Michael Story.
SKU: AP.50873
ISBN 9781470666842. UPC: 038081585451. English.
Inspiration for Great Falls Fantasy, by Brant Karrick, comes from The Great Falls of the Potomac River, considered one of the most spectacular landmarks in the Washington D.C. area. A Coplandesque theme weaves its way through unique harmonies, including inversions and extended chords, reflecting the majesty and beauty of the river and its surroundings. (3:30).
SKU: AP.50873S
ISBN 9781470666859. UPC: 038081585468. English.
SKU: CL.012-3398-01
A dramatic and inspiring patriotic composition which contains fresh musical treatments of Yankee Doodle, Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier, America and a full symphonic treatment of The Star-Spangled Banner. A great concert opener or closer, and is suitable for any patriotic or civic occasion. (The Star-Spangled Banner can be played alone, with or without audience participation.) Challenging, but amazingly playable for a piece that sounds so spectacular and impressive! All sections of the band get several chances to shine and it's a full-blown extravaganza that is perfect for a zillion programming situations. Very impressive!
About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series
The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.
SKU: AP.45796S
UPC: 038081524726. English. Katherine Lee Bates.
With rich textures and warm melodies, here is a new setting of the cherished classic arrangement, From Sea to Shining Sea by Douglas E. Wagner. Like Maurice Whitney's more advanced arrangement, this fresh scoring stands alone as a superb concert band-only version for young bands or advanced bands with limited rehearsal time, as well as an easily adaptable accompaniment for SATB choir (00-WBCH93252). Ideal programming for graduations, spring concerts, and patriotic settings. (4:30).
SKU: HL.48021088
UPC: 884088649074. 7.25x10.25x0.169 inches.
Britannia was written in 1994 as a celebration of a major force in our musical life, the British orchestra. The work fulfils a commission from British Telecommunications plc with the Association of British Orchestras as part of the BT Celebration Series, and provides all the major UK orchestras with a new concert overture for performance in the 1994/95 season. Britannia is a ten-minute orchestral fantasy based on patriotic themes. There is no programme of story as such but the tapestry ofpopular melodies and resonant allusions, given their new and unfamiliar contexts, may provoke some surprising scenarios in the mind of the listener, particularly at a time when petty chauvinism threatens to rear up once again throughout Europe. The piece grows outof a short sketch written earlier this year, Memoire Imperiale, which is based on a march tune by General Reid, an 18th century British army officer who established the music department at Edinburgh University. This theme and the imperial themes of Elgar andArne are thrown into a volatile concoction with other materials an Irish reel (which becomes a jig), a Cockney drinking song, other march tunes and a hazy Celtic modality. All the main ideas are presented in a quick and stark succession during the fast opening section. The slow middle part begins with aserene canon which is gradually undermined by military allusions on brass and percussion. This confrontation leads to the works climax followed by an unsettled coda. Britannia is dedicated to Libby MacNamara of the Association of British Orchestras.
SKU: HL.4491221
UPC: 884088872649. 10.5x14 inches.
Performance time - ca. 4:30Originally written for concert band (and commissioned by the U.S. Marine Band), Esprit de Corps is a fantasy-march that serves as a tribute to both the Marine Corps and the Marine Band. Composed immediately after the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, the composer chose to forego an elegiac tribute in favor of a work that reflects the positive spirit of the Corps, full of energy and dynamism. Even the tempo marking, ?Tempo di Bourgeois,? reflects the dramatic and spirited conducting of Col. John R. Bourgeois, conductor of the Marine Band at the time of composition.
