SKU: CL.032-2825-01

High speed industrial strength big band jazz from the powerful pen of Dominic Spera. Not for the faint of heart, this incredible chart is a perfect competition vehicle for better bands. Great ensemble writing, lots of solo space, and a breakneck tempo combine to provide maximum excitement.

SKU: HL.4004994

UPC: 888680657482. 9.0x12.0x0.059 inches.

The race is on! Lightspeed is a high-velocity piece built almost entirely on fast-moving staccato eighth notes. Inspired by the painting technique of pointillism, which uses small distinct dots of color combining to form an image, the overall effect of Lightspeed is an energetic ride that is exciting and fun for the audience as well as the performers. Dur: 2:00.

SKU: WJ.ABW2405FS

9 x 12 inches.

Fast, fun, and ferocious...Speed Racer evokes all of the thrilling emotions that come with speeding down the highway! Carol Brittin Chambers takes us on a ride with this new work for the developing concert band. We know everyone is going to love this!

SKU: CL.011-4643-01

A dramatic, driving work guaranteed to motivate and excite your students, Bullet Train pays homage to the Japanese Shinkansen, a network of the busiest high-speed rail lines in the world, with a top speed of 200 miles per hour! Teaching opportunities abound, as tenutos, staccatos, minor scales, Japanese pentatonic scales, crescendos and decrescendos, are all presented. This piece will bring a unique multi-cultural flavor to any band concert, and will be an audience favorite as well. The biggest challenge? Not to rush, as even the Bullet Train will go off the rails if it goes too fast! Accelerated fun from start to finish!

About C.L. Barnhouse Command Series

The Barnhouse Command Series includes works at grade levels 2, 2.5, and 3. This series is designed for middle school and junior high school bands, as well as high school bands of smaller instrumentation or limited experience. Command Series publications have a slightly larger instrumentation than the Rising Band Series, and are typically of larger scope, duration, and musical content.

SKU: HL.14043216

ISBN 9781783056200. English.

Michael Nyman's Musique A Grande Vitesse (MGV) translates as ‘high speed music’ and was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North EuropeanParis-Lille line in 1993.

This piece of sheet music runs continuously, but was conceived as an abstract, imaginary journey; or rather five inter-connected journeys, each ending with a slow, mainly stepwise melody which isonly heard in its 'genuine' form when the piece reaches its destination.

Thematic 'transformation' is a key to MGV as a whole. Throughout the piece ideas - rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, motivic, textural -constantly change their identity as they pass through different musical 'environments'.

The opening bars establish both a recurrent rhythmic principle - 9, 11, or 13-beat rhythmic cycles heard against a regular 8 - and aharmonic process - chord sequences (mainly over C and E) which have the note E in common. (Coincidentally, MGV begins in C and ends in E). A later scalic, syncopated figure (again first heard over C, E and A)begins the second section, featuring Brass, in D flat.

The topography of MGV should be experienced without reference to planning, description or timetables. Its tempo changes and unpredictable slowings downbear no logical relation to the high speed of the Paris-Lille journey, while the temptation to treat MGV as a concerto grosso, with the Michael Nyman band as the ripeno, was resisted: more suitably theband (amplified in live performance) lays down the tracks on which MGV runs.

SKU: HL.4007922

And we're off! Otto M. Schwarz takes us on a tour of his native Austria in this six-movement work. Passing by the great landmarks of this beautiful country we're travelling by narrow-gauge railway, by car and finally by high-speed train. Fabled castles, famous gardens in Salzburg (the Mirabell Gardens) and Vienna or the Schloss Esterházy, the palace in Burgenland, where Joseph Haydn worked for many years, are just as important as the mode of transport. As the saying goes, the journey is its own reward. Movements include: The Journey, On the Road, Castles and Legends, Mirabell Gardens, Schloss Esterhazy, High Speed Train.