SKU: AP.51118

UPC: 038081581552. English. Traditional Torres Strait Islands Song.

This Torres Strait Island folk song presents a wonderful opportunity for a cappella choirs to perform with authentic world percussion instruments (common alternates offered). All the voicings are built on a traditional repeat structure that begins in unison and unfolds into more harmony with each verse. A brief bridge of original music punctuates the repeated sections. Choirs around the globe have enjoyed adding movement to this playful nature song.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: XC.HCB2404

9 x 12 inches.

Rising Earth evokes images of our lonely planet, suspended like a pale blue dot amidst the cosmos. Composer Laura Estes has crafted a wonderfully evocative new work for the developing concert band. Musicians and audiences alike will delight in the rich harmonies and catchy rhythms. A for sure winner at your next concert.

SKU: XC.HCB2101FS

UPC: 812598036190. 9 x 12 inches.

Take a midnight sleighride with Flight of Jolly Old St. Nicholas as you rock your way to the end of this piece! John M. Pasternak does it again with this wonderful new holiday chart that your ensemble and audiences will love.

SKU: XC.HCB2010

UPC: 812598033434. 9 x 12 inches.

Take an uplifting journey with Fortune Favors the Bold! Students will find success with it’s wonderfully scored melodic material and unique harmonic sound. A Charming new work for developing ensembles.

SKU: KN.42106S

UPC: 822795421064.

This beautiful straight eighth ballad is the perfect showcase for your alto saxophone soloist. The pensive melody and rich harmony combine to create a wonderful change-of-pace chart at the medium easy level. While there is a short section that may be improvised, the solo part is entirely written and no improvisation is required. Scored for 12-17 players, optional parts are included for flute, clarinet, horn in F, tuba and vibes. Duration 4:10.

SKU: PL.1222BP

Exciting addition to Hymns of Praise series based on familiar Coronation tune. Each verse distinctively set with different harmony, voicings, and combination of instruments. Includes parts for congregation and trumpet. A wonderful piece for a processional or festival service.

SKU: XC.HCB1902

UPC: 812598031898. 9 x 12 inches.

In every person’s life there are shining moments where we are at our best, where we show others the best version of ourselves and we achieve. Shining Moments is intended to musically depict this feeling in a beautiful, but uplifting ballad that can be used to teach developing bands good musicianship qualities, like phrasing and playing with emotion. A wonderful opportunity for developing student to have a musically powerful experience.

SKU: XC.HCB2402

9 x 12 inches.

Brilliantly scored this new fanfare from composer Sean O'Loughlin will present a wonderful opportunity to show off your ensemble at the opening or closing of their next concert program. In A-B-A form, there is a lot to teach in this one, from a fiery opening, and pseudo syncopated patterns to reinforce rhythmic development as well as a lyrical section. This fanfare has it all!

SKU: CF.YAS202

ISBN 9781491157770. UPC: 680160916351. 9 x 12 inches.

This extraordinarily beautiful work captures the awesome wonder of a winter night. Using simple rhythms and lush harmony, the first section creates a mood of reflection and solitude. The middle section uses syncopation and a faster tempo to paint a magical winter landscape before settling back into the simplistic beauty of a quiet night. Students will quickly grasp the mood and legato style required to portray this scene. With only a few accidentals it works well with developing groups, while giving them a mature sound.

SKU: BR.EB-9258

ISBN 9790004185582. 9 x 12 inches.

Spherical: What a wonderful word. Spherical, magical, shimmering, kaleidoscopic, spectral. These were my associations. Only when researching this piece did I notice that sphere derives from the Greek hull or ball. It was used in antiquity to designate the firmament, imagined as a hollow sphere. Pythagoras assumed that the movements of the spheres or heavenly bodies created tones with pitches depending on their distances and velocities. Then I came across a text by Stefan Zweig, which, besides the idea of the firmament in constant motion, is perfectly consistent with Canto sferico (song of the spheres). Art knows no more beautiful moment than when it may show the excessive in its symmetry, in those spherically sounding seconds, when at the blink of an eye dissonance dissolves into primal blissful harmony: the more ghastly the rupture, so much the more powerful this collapse, so much the more effervescent the consonance of the plunging streams. (Manuela Kerer, 2017).