Jolly Old Saint Nicholas gets dressed up in his yuletide best and welcomes good girls and boys to make their Christmas wishes. Every section gets their chance at this beloved carol as the melody line moves to each in turn delighting with its happy feel. This is a chance for all to shine!

This timeless Christmas favourite will be a huge hit at seasonal concerts arranged for Concert Band.

With Disneyland's 50th anniversary celebration in full swing what could be better than a flashy medley featuring some of the great musical moments associated with this American icon of family entertainment? This fast-paced and terrific-sounding arrangement includes: Fantasmic Main Theme Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah It's a Small World Be Our Guest Part of Your World and of course the Mickey Mouse March.

David Well composed ?X-mas for Three? for three young pupils of his who wished to give a Christmas concert. He arranged six well-known Christmas songs for them and their first performance was a great success. This was reason for the composer to adapt the piece for ?orchestra? by adding percussion. The title has stayed the same and the work can still be played by as few as three musicians but as the saying goes: ?The more the merrier?! ?X-mas for Three? consists of the following parts : 1. Oh du fröhliche 2. Kling Glöckchen kling 3. Gloria in excelsis deo 4. Joy to the world! 5. The first Noel 6. We wish you a MerryChristmas

This one is just right for the 'encore march' at your next young band concert or anywhere a bright march is appropriate. Some carefully chosen accidentals keep things interesting but there are no more than one or two for any given instrument keeping the technical demands easily within the abilities of a Grade 1 band. If your school mascot happens to be the Eagle you may wish to keep this 'spirit' march in the folders year around for use at assemblies and rallies as a peppy 'mascot' tune.

Grade 2 - Score Only-Bring something different to your holiday concert this year with this richly contrasting medley of wassailing songs that hearken back to the close of the Middle Ages. Ancient melodies in medley carefully arranged for the Grade 2band makes this an effective choice for your holiday festivities. Concluding with the ever popular “We Wish You a Merry Christmas ” this delightful grouping of carols will work anywhere in the performance even as thecloser. (Grade 2)

Involve your whole school with this easy holiday medley for band and choir. An excellent concert finale! The band arrangement is designed to be performed with or without the choir. Includes: Deck The Hall Jingle Bells OChristmas Tree and We Wish You A Merry Christmas. (SATB: 08743047 $2.50 • 3-Part Mixed: 08743048 $2.50 • 2-Part: 08743049 $2.50 • String Pak: 04490211 $40.00 • ShowTrax CD: 08743050 $30)

‘Martenizza’ is the Bulgarian word for the month March. This work describes an old custom in Bulgaria introduced to the composer was through Ivo Stoykov a Bulgarian acquaintance. In accordance with tradition good friends give each other a number of white and red pennants on the 1st of March. When a stork has been spotted for the first time in March the pennants are hung in a tree and one can make a wish. According to the custom friends wish each other health and happiness for the coming year.

Based on the poems by German poet Carl Hauptmann (late Romanticism) and the English poet William Wordsworth (early Romanticism). Carl Hauptmann was in poor health as a child but highly intelligent. He studied philosophy psychology and biology. In the latter he was admitted to the degree of doctor. His marriage provided financial independence so that he could focus on his studies. Hauptmann wrote various novels plays poetry and scientific works. Night Twilight floats above the valley's night mists are hanging there's a whispering brook. Now the covering veil is lifting quite: come and look! See the magicland before our gaze: tall as dreams the silver mountains stand crossed by silent silver paths shining from a secret land. Noble pure the dreaming country sleeps. By the path the shadow black and hogh of a beach. a wisp of a white smoke creeps to the dark'ning sky. Where the valley is the darkest hued countless little lights shine silently. O my soul! Drink of solitude! Carl Hauptmann Wordsworth 'introduced' a new type of poetry based on the speech of the common man. This was his answer to the poetry of the classicism which was bound by rigid rules. His definition of poetry was: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility. My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began. So is it now I am a man. So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man. And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth In a truly poetic manner Harrie Janssen has transformed the contemplative thoughts of the poets into two compositions for Concert Band.

A wonderful modern treatment of the ages old favorite We Wish You a Merry Christmas! This creative arrangement serves equally well as an opener for your Christmas Concert as it will in the traditional closer position that the grand old carol has so long held. Be sure to hear the demo CD on this one. We think you’ll be both surprised and delighted. Without question your students will enjoy playing Good Tidings at Christmas and the audience will Love it!Original!

This medley of two famous Christmas songs, 'Up on the Housetop' and 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' will add sparkle to any holiday concert. The songs are easy to prepare and perform with young players, include recognizable melodies, and are a great musical expression of joy and happiness to performers and listeners alike. Happy holidays! (1:30) / Concert Band

Par DE HAAN JACOB. The Book of Urizen is a work for concert band, solo soprano, and a male narrator in which sound collages of religious expressions are used. The piece is inspired by the compelling visionary poem of the same name (which the poet illustratedhimself) by the Englishman William Blake (1757-1827), who occupies a unique position in western literature and the visual arts. He was not just a poet and a writer, but he was also a graphic artist, a painter, an illustrator, a spiritualist, areligious visionary, and a mystic philosopher. For the performance of this work, a professional sound system, including two microphones and a CD player, is needed. The three sound collages are three separate tracks on the enclosed CD and can beplayed easily at the right moment. The Book of Urizen bears resemblance to Genesis and Exodus, of which the contents form the basis of the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic faith. Blake adhered to the principle that all religions are in fact one, and that deities reside in human beings. In The Book of Urizen this is represented in “The Net of Religion, ” which is spanned over the earth by Urizen. The sound collages, compiled by Jacob de Haan in the studio, find their origin inJerusalem, the Holy City, where the afore-mentioned faiths “come together. ” In the first movement of this composition, The Vision, Urizen prepares his vision of the world, and he presents this to the “Eternals. ” His vision is rejected, and Urizen locks himself up in his own abstract world. When he does emerge again, he is confronted with rage by the gathered Eternals. Urizen flees the wrath of the Eternals, “the flames of eternal fury, ” and enwombs himself in his own world. Whenthe Eternals see Urizen in his “stony sleep, ” they wonder if this is death. The blacksmith Los is torn by grief because of the isolation of Urizen. It brings him to rouse his fires, prepare his forge, and to give Urizen’s world concrete form. In the second movement, The Creation, Urizen’s world, but also man, woman, and child are created. Los is horrified with the appearance of Urizen’s body. He mourns and pities Urizen, and from his blood a female form comes into being, with thename Enitharmon. The Eternals, fearful of the female form, decide to erect a tent to obstruct their view to eternity. Enitharmon and Los beget a son, called Orc. Los baptizes him as a child of the “fallen world. ” Orc is fed at Enitharmon’s breast, which makes a girdle of jealousy restrict Los’ chest. He takes the child to the top of the mountain and chains him down. The cries of Orc awaken Urizen, who explores his world creating instruments of scientific measurement to do so. Los encircles theface of Enitharmon from the sight of Urizen and Orc. She then populates the earth by giving birth to an enormous race. The Web, third movement of The Book of Urizen is now available: DHP 1125252 / Niveau : 5 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Combining the familiar Canon in D with a multitude of popular Christmas carols this clever and unique arrangement for beginning bands will be the talk of the concert. See how many tunes you can identify.includes: Canon In D; The First Noel; Go Tell It On The Mountain; Good King Wenceslas; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Jingle Bells; Jolly Old St. Nicholas; Joy To The World; Up On The Housetop; We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Rock music is always a success. And when it is supported verbally as it is done in this composition the party can begin. Bobby is a friendly circus animal that has seen a lot of the world. There is nothing left to wish for and his freedom from worries radiates from this rock march by Andreas Ludwig Schulte.