SKU: CF.CM9781
ISBN 9781491164525. UPC: 680160923434. Key: D major. English. Based on an African American Spiritual with Additional Music by Donald Moore.
The Shepherdâ??s Spiritual is a fun and energetic choral work that has become a favorite of choirs around the world. The heart and soul of the piece is the driving piano accompaniment, which should be played with an upbeat tempo and very little pedal. Singers should follow the piano lead with gusto and enthusiasm. Be sure to allow plenty of dynamic contrast, which will add to the enjoyment of the piece.Have fun with this one!
SKU: CL.032-4126-01
Introduce your band and audiences to a little 2-beat and some jazz history with this easy to prepare arrangement of this great jazz standard. Originally a ragtime piano piece, That's-A-Plenty is most commonly associated with Dixieland music. This arrangement now makes it available to jazz bands at the medium-easy level. There's lots of fun for all the sections, including some smeared notes for the bones and some short solis for the saxes. The drummer gets some tom-tom work a la Gene Krupa, and while there are no improvised solos, one (or all) of the trumpets gets to do a written out call and response solo back and forth with the rest of the band. This one is a guaranteed crowd pleaser!
SKU: CY.CC2882
The ever-popular jazz standard That's A Plenty, composed by Lew Pollack in 1914 is a ragtime composition most often performed in the Dixieland style.Keith Terrett has artfully arranged this 3-minute jazz favorite for Brass Quintet of advanced performers.
SKU: HL.609296
UPC: 196288078623. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.
With a tune based on the beautiful English ballad Pretty Polly, Woody Guthrie's lyrics describes the challenges as well as the dignity of migrant workers in North America. With choral writing that is perfect for maturing high school voices but where there are no tenors, this is a song that encourages discussions around American farm workers, literature as the music relates to Steinbeck and his Grapes of Wrath, and the critical state of agriculture. This is a winner in every sense.
SKU: AP.47315
ISBN 9781470640798. UPC: 038081541549. English.
Part of the Sound Innovations family, Sound Percussion fills the need for a comprehensive percussion method that provides a clear progressions of notes, rhythms, and skills that can be used for group or individual lessons. Sound Percussion has a clear and flexible approach with plenty of reinforcement. Books are available: Teacher's Score * Snare Drum and Bass Drum * Mallet Percussion * Timpani * Accessory Instruments. Sound Percussion contains seven sections covering everything from setting up the instruments to percussion ensemble performance. Sections include: Sound Preparation * Sound Rhythm * Sound Meter * Sound Rudiments * Sound Rolls * Sound Effects * Sound Performance. Directors can work through the book(s) progressively, or jump from section-to-section in order to address the specific educational needs of their students. The mallet book, however is more sequential by nature of note introduction. Skills are introduced with a backward-by-design approach. Learning goals are first identified, and then exercises are logically designed with obtainable steps that lead you toward achieving that goal. This is particularly helpful for mallet note recognition and snare drum rolls. Sound Percussion is a comprehensive resource that's perfect for teaching your students the fundamentals necessary to becoming well-rounded percussionists. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: HL.863548
ISBN 9780793569793. UPC: 073999635485. 9.0x12.0x0.125 inches.
Original series (black cover) Intermediate to advanced studies featuring full band chorales, chromatic exercises and articulation studies, color woodwind trill charts, a wide variety of multicultural songs, and much more. Authors: Tom C. Rhodes, Donald Bierschenk, Tim Lautzenheiser.
About Essential Elements Band Method
About Essential Elements Band Method: Essential Elements Band Method provides a complete system of books and accompanying materials that make the educator's job easier, and the students' learning more thorough and enjoyable. By Tom C. Rhodes, Donald Bierschenk, Tim Lautzenheiser, John Higgens, Linda Petersen.
SKU: CL.032-3473-01
The perfect drum set feature for the very youngest jazz ensembles that's super-easy to play but provides a huge rockin' sound . Plenty of open spaces between the horn licks for the drummer to fill who can either play the part as written or use their own ideas. Playable with limited instrumentation and it's sure to be a big hit with students and audiences alike! Don't miss this cool chart!
SKU: BT.DHP-1084458-070
ISBN 9789043129640. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Thereâ??s a Boat Datâ??s Leavinâ?? Soon for New York/It Ainâ??t Necessarily So/Summertime/I Got Plenty o' Nuttinâ?? is a song from the American opera Porgy and Bess, composed in 1935 by George Gershwin (1898-1937), to a libretto by DuBose Heyward and his brother Ira Gershwin, after Heywardâ??s novel Porgy - a story about the love between the crippled negro beggar Porgy and the girl Bess in the city of Charleston in South Carolina. The première - not a huge success - took place on 10 October 1935 in New York.With his opera, Gershwin wanted to gain recognition as a composer of classical music. Incidentally he demanded that all parts were sung by black performers; only a few unimportant parts,without sung lyrics, were allowed to be performed by white actors. This rule still applies: Gershwin has stated in the terms of his will that only black people were allowed stage the opera.Porgy and Bess has become popular only after Gershwinâ??s death. In 1959 a wonderful film was made; the soundtrack won a Grammy Award. The work is not very often performed, possibly because of the difficulty of finding a whole cast of black opera singers. However, various pieces from the opera are still regularly performed in numerous arrangements. I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' ist ein Lied aus der amerikanischen Oper Porgy and Bess die George Gershwin im 1935 komponierte.Das Libretto lieferten DuBose Heyward und Georges Bruder Ira Gershwin nach Heywards Roman Porgy, einer Geschichte über die Liebe zwischen dem verkrüppelten schwarzen Bettler Porgy und dem Mädchen Bess in Charleston im Staat South Carolina.