SKU: CL.CTS-7707-01

Dramatic Prelude begins with a dramatic fanfare, which is followed by an easily accessible melody; a del segno takes you back to the dramatic fanfare and an ending as exciting as the beginning. Dramatic Prelude also offers an optional harp if you have one available. Building a pyramid chord, polychords and teaching balance are some of the teaching concepts in Dramatic Prelude. A Smith classic! Also available in Flexible Ensemble and Fanfare in brass ensembles.

SKU: CL.023-5054-00

This clever young band composition will tell the story of the blacksmith’s anvil as it creates a song of intense percussive energy. Using only the first 6 notes of the scale, The Blacksmith’s Song was conceived and written as a concert/festival work for very young musicians. An excellent vehicle for the teaching the concepts of articulation, phrasing and musical balance your students will also enjoy interesting musical lines for every instrument and the complimentary percussion writing. Your audiences will love the novelty of the piece as well. Let the anvil begin!

SKU: CL.026-4133-01

An outstanding new addition to the Build-A-Band Series that includes the Song Without Words and Song of the Blacksmith movements from this famous suite. Can be combined with Scott's earlier arrangement of the March movement the same suite to make a wonderful program for concert and contest performances. Now even the smallest bands can successfully perform this great work which is such a staple of the concert band repertoire.

About Build-A-Band Series

The Build-A-Band Series provides educational and enjoyable music for bands with incomplete or unbalanced instrumentation. Written using just four or five parts (plus percussion), these effective arrangements will work with any combination of brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments as long as you distribute the parts so that each of the five parts is covered. All of the publications in the Build-A-Band Series have been arranged to be playable with any instrumentation as long as each part is used: 1st Part, 2nd Part, 3rd Part, 4th Part, and Bass Part. (Please note: In some of these arrangements the 4th Part, and the Bass Part are the same, making it possible to play those arrangements with only 4 parts.)

SKU: AP.98-RWS230601

A march composed in a classic American style, The Royal Hawaiian is based on the famous Aloha Oe composed by Queen Lili'uokalani in 1878. Featuring American military percussion as well as traditional Hawaiian instruments including optional conch shell, the blend of musical textures creates an unusual yet familiar march setting. If Sousa had surfed, we believe this is what he would have heard!