Concert Band for Beginners

What kid doesn't love a train! This entertaining and fun piece for beginning bands calls for some lucky student (or administrator) to be featured on a wooden train whistle (the cheap kind!). Along the...

Played in a fast swing style, this easy piece will get your audience clapping and toe-tapping right from the downbeat. The percussion parts are written to be played similar to the way a set drummer wo...

Jazz-rock harmonies and melodic lines will encourage your students to practice more, making Quincy Hilliard's Throwdown a sure-fire ticket to success for the youngsters. Just enough syncopation to mak...

Well known children's song with added 'blues' harmonies Optional rhythm sections parts

Abide with me' wurde von Hery Francis Lyte im Jahr 1847 geschrieben und ist einfach, elegant und zeitlos. Der Choral wurde von William H. Monk aufgeschrieben und an Lyte's Trauerfeier uraufgeführt. Ro...

The work We Hymn Thee is a sacred piece by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov and comes from his famous Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. This music is strongly inspired by the tradition of the Rus...

The work We Hymn Thee is a sacred piece by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov and comes from his famous Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. This music is strongly inspired by the tradition of the Rus...

Come, Let Us Worship is an impressive excerpt from the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37) by Sergei Rachmaninov, a masterpiece of Orthodox church music composed in 1915. This work opens the celebration with con...

Come, Let Us Worship is an impressive excerpt from the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37) by Sergei Rachmaninov, a masterpiece of Orthodox church music composed in 1915. This work opens the celebration with con...

We Praise Thee, Op. 27 No. 6 by Pavel Chesnokov is an important work of the Russian sacred repertoire, characterized by fervour and deep spirituality. Rooted in the Orthodox tradition, it is character...

We Praise Thee, Op. 27 No. 6 by Pavel Chesnokov is an important work of the Russian sacred repertoire, characterized by fervour and deep spirituality. Rooted in the Orthodox tradition, it is character...

Essential Elements Artist Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 34).

Based on the lovely melody from the fourth movement of Holst's most performed work, Jupiter has been carefully prepared for your beginners concert at the end of their first year. Although scored to co...

Bach's 'Minuet in G Major' provides the inspiration for this lively rock-style piece for young bands. A statement of the original theme gives way to a rousing rock version of this famous melody. Corre...

Explore multiple style periods with this clever arrangement that sets Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in the style of a march! The familiar melodies, presented with a creative twist, are sure to make...

In music, a drone is a repeated or sustained pitch that provides a harmonic foundation for melodies and harmonies to build around it. This definition describes this piece perfectly as the entire piece...

Echoes in the Tundra was composed to paint a musical picture of someone trying to survive in a dark, vast, snowy plain. Much of the piece uses call and response to represent the echoes in this environ...

Serenity is the perfect word to describe this lyrical piece: calm, peaceful and simple to perform. This selection was composed with the intention to introduce very beginning musicians to lyrical music...

The Call of the Summit is a heroic and stately piece which uses call and response between a solo trumpet and the remainder of the ensemble to establish "the call". With simple rhythms and limited rang...

Of Fate and Fortune is a great piece to introduce beginning students to more challenging music. The music focuses on one theme that is manipulated to take on several forms throughout.

Beneath the Golden Sky is a lyrical song that allows an ensemble to develop its skills playing in 3/4 metre. Each part is given the opportunity to play melodic material at some point in the piece.

Handel?s opera Scipio was written in 1725 and performed the following year in the King?s Theatre, London. Following Handel?s death his operas fell into obscurity until the 1960?s when they experienced...

Complete with a positive and uplifting theme, this new work for beginning band is great for all types of performance. Using only the first 6 notes of the Bb Scale, Sean has created a piece that is per...

Complete with a positive and uplifting theme, this new work for beginning band is great for all types of performance. Using only the first 6 notes of the Bb Scale, Sean has created a piece that is per...

Complete with a positive and uplifting theme, this new work for beginning band is great for all types of performance. Using only the first 6 notes of the Bb Scale, Sean has created a piece that is per...