SKU: HL.4003459

UPC: 884088907273. 9.0x12.0x0.045 inches.

This work was inspired by the legendary American patriot and hero of the Revolutionary War. James Curnow's popular three-movement suite is adapted here into a very effective format for incomplete ensembles. Dur: 6:15.

SKU: AP.49549

ISBN 9781470649142. UPC: 038081569925. English.

From the creative mind of Nathan Farrell, The Dreaded Devious Diabolical Dotted Dragon will light your band room up with dragon fire! Knight your students with the armor of subdivision and attack the dreaded dotted quarter note! Protect the villagers with intriguing percussion colors and fun yet surprisingly simple melodic lines. Designed to engage each section of the band with intuitive rhythms that take the bite out of the dot, your students will love this epic musical quest. (1:53) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

SKU: AP.50906

ISBN 9781470668709. UPC: 038081587585. English.

Load up your musical instruments of ultimate destruction and prepare to plunder the high seas, the intergalactic expanse, or just the band room! Bring major tonality to its knees with Nathan Farrell's epic exploration of Dorian modality---Modal Marauders! Your beginning band students will love learning the ear-worm-inducing melody and fun bass lines as they rehearse and perform this epic work. Interesting percussion features and battles between the sections are easy to teach and engaging for all performers. It is an exciting piece that will be perfect for your young band. (2:00).

SKU: KJ.WB214

Spirited of the Land, the first of this four movement programmatic work, is inspired by the 1914 painting by Charles Russell, When the Land Belonged to God, and the composer's travel in the west. A Frontier Lawman, vividly depicts the swagger and demeanor of legendary lawman, Nathaniel Kimball Boswell. Cowboy Meditation, the third movement of West!, captures the spirit of the solitary life of the cowboy on the plains - his thoughts and the calls of the wild surrounding him. Railtown Jubilee, brings West! to a close representing the dramatic impact the railroad had on the West. Use this as an opportunity for making interdisciplinary connections.

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: YM.GTW01086425

ISBN 9784636864250.

New Sounds in Concert Band Series (NSB)
Duration: approx.6'00
Arranged by Eiji Suzuki

Medley of:
The Love's Kiss; Andalasia; Nathaniel and Pip; That's How You Know: Enchanted Suite.
Zu Qu :
Zhen Ai Zhi Wen ; Andalasia; Na Sa Ni Er He Pi Pu ; Ta Zen Zhi Dao ; Enchanted Suite.