The legendary Legend of Zelda Theme is a composition by Koji Kondo and is one of the most iconic video game themes of all time. Power Publishing presents Joshua Capri's arrangement for young band. This arrangement is graded at a 2.75 level which makes it accessible yet appropriately challenging for students in their second to third year of playing.


This piece employs mode mixture between Bb major and Bb minor so warming up with Bb major, Bb harmonic minor, and Bb natural minor can greatly help with the accidentals in this piece. It primarily stays within the one octave range of Bb major/minor, making it ideal for a young band. The melody is featured in the flute, alto saxophone, and trumpet parts while clarinets play a counter melody that is friendly to the break. Low brass and woodwinds also get in on the melody at measure 26. There is a four bar solo at measure 38 that is written into all wind parts so any member of the band can take on the solo if they feel like shining.

"God Defend New Zealand" was written as a poem in the 1870s by Irish-born, Victorian-raised immigrant Thomas Bracken of Dunedin. A competition to compose music for the poem was held in 1876 by The Saturday Advertiser and judged by three prominent Melbourne musicians, with a prize of ten guineas. The winner of the competition was the Tasmanian-born John Joseph Woods of Lawrence, New Zealand who composed the melody in a single sitting the evening after finding out about the competition. The song was first performed at the Queen?s Theatre, Princes Street, Dunedin, on Christmas Day, 1876. [Wikipedia]

This arrangement is for Concert Band and with optional Strings and Piano parts included (but not shown on the score) - Lower Key of F (Original in G) ? If singing the words for more than one verse, accompaniment can be varied eg. Woodwind only for one verse ? as in the MP3 recording with was recorded with NotePerformer. Also available MARCH CARD format...

Duration = 2:00 mins Grade 2-3

You'll feel the gentle tropical breeze as your beginners play this easy and contagiously hum-able tune! Simple rhythms (half-, quarter-, and a few eighth-notes) make CUBAN BREEZE an ideal piece for your concert.

FEATURES: Easy notes, easy rhythms, repeated sections; uses rhythm instruments for color; simple, unison low brass/low woodwind parts.

CHALLENGES: Percussion break (4 measures); tenor drum line uses a two-sixteenth/eighth-note rhythm pattern.

KEY and RANGES: Concert B-flat major. Beginner ranges: all parts use 5 or fewer different notes. Flutes, Clarinet 1, Trumpet 1 use concert D to A; Clarinet 2 uses low G to D below staff; all others use first 5 notes of B-flat concert scale.

INSTRUMENTATION: Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Trumpet, Horn in F, Trombone/Euphonium, T.C. Euphonium, Tuba, Percussion 1 (Tenor Drum, Bass Drum), Percussion 2 (Guiro, Maracas), Percussion 3 (Claves).

MINIMUM INSTRUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS: At least one: Flute, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Trumpet, Bass line (any low reed, saxophone, or low brass instrument), and 3 Percussionists.

NOTE: This Digital Download document is assembled with the Trumpet part appearing as page 1 so you may view it on the web site as you listen to the sound file. When you download/print the full document (26 pages, total), the first page to print will be the Trumpet part, followed by 8 pages of the FULL SCORE, then the remaining PARTS (16 pages), and a Site License permitting you to make multiple copies of the score and parts for use by your school.