SKU: KJ.WB169RG

Matterhorn Overture uses angular melodic lines, colorful harmonies, exciting rhythms and bold dynamic contrasts to create musical impressions of the Alps' mighty Matterhorn. Through a creative combination of these and many other devices, the composer gives this accessible work a mature sound, making it an ideal selection for young band festival or concert performance.

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: XC.DCB2007

UPC: 812598033175. 9 x 12 inches.

This piece was written to give your students confidence as they navigate uncharted territory in their own lives and studies. Written with the beginning band choirs in mind, Matt gives ample opportunity to explore the color of the band with tutti woodwind and tutti brass sections.

SKU: XC.DCB2007FS

UPC: 812598033519. 9 x 12 inches.

This piece was written to give your students confidence as they navigate uncharted territory in their own lives and studies. Written with the beginning band choirs in mind, Matt gives ample opportunity to explore the color of the band with tutti woodwind and tutti brass sections.

SKU: HL.4006123

UPC: 888680961473. 9.0x12.0x0.063 inches. Christopher Tin/trans. Matt Conaway.

Although composed for a video game, this African-flavored modern masterpiece has taken on a life of its own in pop culture as well as on the concert stage. This transcription by Matt Conaway matches the original orchestration and is compatible with the composer's own version for chorus. Performed with or without chorus, the effect is dramatic and moving. (MusicWorks).

SKU: CF.FPS150F

ISBN 9781491152782. UPC: 680160910281.

The title is a play on words, but the composer had his own ulterior motives in mind when composing this piece. He wanted a piece that was fun to play, but that helped developing musicians work on their rhythmic skills. Matt Putnam uses the feel of action film soundtracks to create the mood of this interesting new piece. Interesting grooves in the percussion throughout add to the piece’s feel of mystery and thrill.
To understand my thoughts in writing this piece, I thought it best to define the two ideas that give the piece its title: ulterior motives and musical motifs. Ulterior motives occur when you believe that a person is doing something for some unknown or hidden reason. Often, they are used in action films or literature to increase the drama and tension of the story. Musically, a motif is a short rhythmic and/or melodic idea. When I wrote this piece, I must confess that I had my own ulterior motives: I wanted to create a piece that was fun to play, but I also wanted a piece that would help students develop their rhythmic counting skills. In this piece, I use a motif of a two eighth-note pattern which jumps from section to section to help me achieve my ulterior motive.Mimicking the mood of action films whose characters often have ulterior motives, the mood of the piece is suspenseful and exciting as the motif jumps from section to section throughout the ensemble. The motif keeps you guessing as it occurs on all four different beats of the measure sometimes ascending, sometimes descending, and occurs sometimes in the interval of a second and sometimes the interval of a third. Interesting grooves in the percussion throughout add to the piece’s feel of mystery and thrill.I have no ulterior motives when I say that I hope you enjoy playing Ulterior Motifs.

SKU: CL.012-4321-01

Dynamic, energetic, and uplifting, this brilliant work by Matt Conaway pays tribute to a respected administrator’s years of service to the education profession. Subtle soundtrack influences blend with vibrant tone colors and driving rhythms to create a memorable experience for your next festival or concert program.