Music Works Grade 1

This fun and engaging work features a recognizable melody within a not-so-traditional march. The perilous and exhilarating nature of the performance unfolds as the snake charmer plays the well-known t...

This fun and engaging work features a recognizable melody within a not-so-traditional march. The perilous and exhilarating nature of the performance unfolds as the snake charmer plays the well-known t...

This fun and engaging work features a recognizable melody within a not-so-traditional march. The perilous and exhilarating nature of the performance unfolds as the snake charmer plays the well-known t...

Here's a terrific concert march dedicated to the American aviator, Charles Lindbergh. A perfect choice to open any concert.

This Spanish-style concert march is carefully designed for beginning players. Strong melodies and careful part writing make this a winner for your first and second year players.

Here is a terrific patriotic medley for young players that uses fragments of several familiar melodies in a creative collage setting. Every section of the band gets a chance to play the melody at some...

Here is a terrific patriotic medley for young players that uses fragments of several familiar melodies in a creative collage setting. Every section of the band gets a chance to play the melody at some...

Here is a terrific patriotic medley for young players that uses fragments of several familiar melodies in a creative collage setting. Every section of the band gets a chance to play the melody at some...

Continuing with Michael's popular series of Celtic Air and Dance arrangements, the third installment opens with Red is the Rose (or Loch Lomond) in a flowing ballad treatment. The lively Bill Sullivan...

Continuing with Michael's popular series of Celtic Air and Dance arrangements, the third installment opens with Red is the Rose (or Loch Lomond) in a flowing ballad treatment. The lively Bill Sullivan...

For that first holiday concert, here is a wonderful and very easy setting of O Come Emmanuel in an expressive style.

For that first holiday concert, here is a wonderful and very easy setting of O Come Emmanuel in an expressive style.

Featuring two distinctive Scottish melodies, the first is the melancholy waltz Bonnie George Campbell. Next is Up and Waur Them A', Willie, which is a sprightly dance with characteristic Scottish rhyt...

Rarely does a grade 1 composition achieve the level of sophistication and daring found in this new work by Michael Sweeney. Dark and ominous sounds are heard at the beginning with Oriental hints and p...

This single movement/single tempo composition is sure to make any beginning group sound good. Even at this easy level, Douglas Akey has created an impressive-sounding and musically varied setting. (2:...

MusicWorks - Grade 1 There is a flavor of medieval chivalry in this appealing easy overture. Strong themes and active percussion writing characterize the opening section. A brief slow section featurin...

This very easy composition by Samuel Hazo was designed specifically to provide beginning players the opportunity to experience a lush and chorale-like setting. With nothing faster than a quarter note,...

Michael takes this tender and lyrical folk song and creates a marvelous setting for beginning players. Even at this easy level, this arrangement provides a wealth of musicality through creative harmon...

The ancient city of Aztalan existed around a thousand years ago in southern Wisconsin, but disappeared mysteriously by around A. D. 1300. Through careful use of tone clusters, haunting melodies and cr...

Featuring a flowing lyric style and beautiful harmonies, this composition for beginning groups allows you to teach phrasing and musicality in a rewarding setting. With easy rhythms and moderate ranges...

Featuring a flowing lyric style and beautiful harmonies, this composition for beginning groups allows you to teach phrasing and musicality in a rewarding setting. With easy rhythms and moderate ranges...

In 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft (named for astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini) entered into orbit around the planet Saturn. The famous rings are named for the first seven letters of the alphabet,...