SKU: KJ.WB356F
Renaissance Rock and Courtly Dance, two contrasting selections, are optional beginning recorder features that can by played with or without the solo recorder part. Both compositions are also published separately for string orchestra (Kjos-SO241). The concert band and the string orchestra versions can be performed together. This is the perfect opportunity to feature recorder classes with the band and/or string orchestra to recruit new band and orchestra members. Also great for a mass festival finale! Renaissance Rock and Courtly Dance also appear on pages 27 and 47, respectively, in the Recorder Excellence method book by Bruce Pearson and Wendy Barden, published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company.
About Standard of Excellence in Concert
The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.
SKU: KJ.WB473
UPC: 8402704749.
Composer Ryan Nowlin delivers another energetic concert opener for intermediate to advanced bands. An emotional middle section featuring lush harmonies is surrounded by woodwind flourishes, brass fanfares, and percussive punctuation.
About Kjos Concert Band Legacy
The Neil A. Kjos Music Company's legacy of producing superb literature for concert band spans its entire 80 year history. We're proud to honor that legacy by continuing to publish compositions of the utmost quality at all grade levels in the Kjos Concert Band Legacy series. Each composition is carefully selected and edited to provide the best in wind band literature by both celebrated and rising composers of today. Skillful engraving with logical page turns, measure numbers, rehearsal marks, essential cueing, and other useful indications ensure that the rehearsal process runs smoothly, so bands can focus on making great music.
SKU: KJ.WB473F
UPC: 8402704750.
SKU: KJ.WB460F
UPC: 084027044681.
SKU: KJ.JB95
UPC: 084027044278.
Father and daughter composing team Tim and Hannah Mahr bring you Dauntless, a work about the courage needed to achieve a miraculous feat. All members of the band have moments to shine with bold, daring, and sometimes tender, melodies.
SKU: KJ.WB395F
UPC: 084027046579.
SKU: KJ.WB452
UPC: 084027044452.
SKU: KJ.WB476F
UPC: 084027047606.
SKU: KJ.JB104F
UPC: 8402704771.
Written to be included as the 4th movement to the multi-composer suite honoring the retirement of composer Jack Stamp. The folk song O Waly Waly is better known by its contemporary lyric The Water Is Wide, and happens to be one of Jack Stamp's favorite songs. Composer Timothy Broege puts his own imprint on the compositional style of the dedicatee, Jack Stamp.
SKU: KJ.WB462
UPC: 084027046333.
SKU: KJ.WB453
UPC: 084027044476.
SKU: KJ.WB457F
UPC: 084027044261.
SKU: KJ.JB100F
UPC: 084027047460.
SKU: KJ.WB478F
UPC: 8402704767.
Written to be included as the 2nd movement to the multi-composer suite honoring the retirement of composer Jack Stamp, Romanza is a simple and direct tone poem of musical expression. Composer Mark Camphouse puts his own imprint on the compositional style of the dedicatee, Jack Stamp.
SKU: KJ.JB96F
UPC: 084027044308.
In Prelude and Dance, composer Jack Stamp incorporated many of the techniques found in his more difficult works to create a piece for younger bands without full instrumentation. This edition adds parts for oboe, bassoon, alto clarinet, electric bass, and rehearsal piano, to meet the needs of full bands.
SKU: KJ.WB475F
UPC: 8402704756.
Inspired by the symphonic scherzos of Beethoven and Dvorak, composer Andrew Boysen Jr. delivers Scherzo No. 2. Following the formal structure of a traditional scherzo and trio, the composer deviates slightly and layers the themes in the final section before rushing to a dynamic conclusion.
SKU: KJ.WB456
UPC: 084027044551.
SKU: KJ.JB102F
UPC: 8402704758.
Inspired by the clandestine behavior of a 19th century midwestern politician, Roulette's Deception is a wild ride through ever-changing meters and shifting tonalities only to deceive the ear in trying to predict what will come.
SKU: KJ.WB474F
UPC: 084027047538.
SKU: KJ.WB476
UPC: 84027047490.
SKU: KJ.JB104
UPC: 8402704770.
SKU: KJ.WB484F
UPC: 8402704835.
Written for Northwestern University's Symphonic Wind Ensemble, composer Parker Gaims uses the school's alma mater, popularly known as the St. Anthony Chorale by Haydn, as the subject of the trio section of this march.
SKU: KJ.JB100
UPC: 084027047453.
SKU: KJ.WB462F
UPC: 084027046357.
SKU: KJ.WB395
UPC: 084027026083.
