Orchestra violin 1, violin 2, violin 3, viola, cello, bass - Grade 2.5

SKU: CF.YAS246F

Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. Arranged by Austin Isaac. Yas. Full score. Duration 3 minutes, 17 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #YAS246F. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.YAS246F).

ISBN 9781491165386. UPC: 680160924295. Key: D minor.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov completed this programmatic overture in the spring of 1888 and dedicated it to the memory of two of his friends who were also prolific Russian composers, Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin. He utilized original melodies and traditional melodies from liturgical chants of the Russian Orthodox Church. His brilliance as an orchestrator was showcased in this large work for full orchestra and included multiple time and key signatures in addition to various solos and cadenzas.This arrangement stays true to the original key signatures and includes all main melodic and harmonic voices and structure in a continuous performance that is accessible and challenging. Care should be shown to the changes in meter, tempo and key signatures along with techniques such as divisi and tremolo. Subdivision and counting can be reinforced throughout this piece. In addition, suggested fingerings have been given to help navigate chromatic and shifting portions of this arrangement. Enjoy performing this arrangement of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s masterpiece!

About Carl Fischer Young String Orchestra Series

Thi s series of Grade 2/Grade 2.5 pieces is designed for second and third year ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
--Occasionally extending to third position
--Keys carefully considered for appropriate difficulty
--Addition of separate 2nd violin and viola parts
--Viola T.C. part included
--Increase in independence of parts over beginning levels

SAB choir, cantor, assembly, keyboard accompaniment, C instrument, cello, guitar - Beginning

SKU: GI.G-9500

The Adoration of the Holy Cross. Composed by Chris De Silva. Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Exaltation of the Cross. Ritual Prayer. Sacred. Octavo. With guitar chord names. 12 pages. GIA Publications #9500. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-9500).

UPC: 785147950004. English. Text Source: 'Ecce lignum Crucis,' tr. The Roman Missal, 2010, 'Crux fidelis,' hymn for Good Friday, tr. The Roman Missal, 2010.

Many congregations hold Good Friday as a sacred day of gathering in prayer, focusing on the cross in anticipation of the Resurrection. Chris de Silva’s “Faithful Cross” is a setting of a lengthy, ancient hymn (“Crux fidelis”) that celebrates the cross with rich symbolism and poetry. Two refrains are included for the assembly, and a simple chant for The Showing of the Holy Cross (“Behold the wood of the Cross...”) is also provided. “Faithful Cross” does not have to be restricted to use only on Good Friday, it can be part of the Palm Sunday liturgy and for feast days such as the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14).

Grade 3

SKU: CL.012-2148-00

Overture for Band. Composed by J. Spears. Concert Band. Heritage of the March Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR104). Score and set of parts. Composed 1989. Duration 5 minutes, 28 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-2148-00. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-2148-00).

A grandiose, memorable melody begins this inspiring piece. Jared Spears, well known for his tasty percussion writing has created this piece containing driving tempos, and colorful scoring found in the slower sections has outdone himself this time with this wonderful piece. Truly a remarkable piece for either contest or festival material. VERY NICE!

About Heritage of the March

Full -sized concert band editions of the greatest marches of all time. Each has been faithfully re-scored to accommodate modern instrumentation and incorporate performance practices of classic march style

SATB choir, assembly, keyboard accompaniment, trumpet in C - Beginning

SKU: GI.G-2536

Composed by Jacques Berthier. Christmastide, Eastertide, Christmas Vigil, Christmas Night, Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, Pentecost. Taize Community. Sacred. Octavo. With guitar chord names. 8 pages. GIA Publications #2536. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-2536).

Grade 2

SKU: CL.RWS-2026-00

Young Concert Band. RWS Developing Band Series. Score and set of parts. Composed 2020. Duration 2 minutes, 35 seconds. RWS Music Company #RWS-2026-00. Published by RWS Music Company (CL.RWS-2026-00).

Use the holiday season to introduce and reinforce the importance of scales with your students. Robert W. Smith’s Christmas A La Mode is an arrangement of Jingle Bells that takes the band and audience on a journey through the traditional modes. Following a brief introduction, our journey begins in the Dorian mode. We continue our sleigh ride through Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Aeolian before an ominous stop in the Locrian mode. We return to Ionian as the arrangement concludes in glorious fashion. A wonderful educational opportunity combining music theory with effective performance!

Jazz ensemble - Grade 3

SKU: CL.SCM-1071-00

Arranged by Carubia. Jazz Ensemble. Smart Chart Music - Jazz Arrangements Series. Score and set of parts. Composed 2011. Duration 2 minutes, 47 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #SCM-1071-00. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.SCM-1071-00).

This classic Clarence Williams composition was written at the very beginning of the Jazz Age and speaks in the Count Basie language. An 8 measure written piano solo feeds into a quiet full ensemble melody with brass in bucket mutes. (Open in stand will do) Well placed unisons and ensemble writing leads to a 16 bar tenor sax solo (suggested written solo is provided) then builds to a final full ensemble shout chorus a minor third higher. Includes an optional flute part. The unique surprise ending will treat the audience and band to a few happy moments. Hint: (Opt. one bar vocal ending).

Jazz ensemble - Grade 3

SKU: CL.SCM-1071-01

Arranged by Carubia. Jazz Ensemble. Extra full score. Composed 2011. Duration 2 minutes, 47 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #SCM-1071-01. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.SCM-1071-01).

This classic Clarence Williams composition was written at the very beginning of the Jazz Age and speaks in the Count Basie language. An 8 measure written piano solo feeds into a quiet full ensemble melody with brass in bucket mutes. (Open in stand will do) Well placed unisons and ensemble writing leads to a 16 bar tenor sax solo (suggested written solo is provided) then builds to a final full ensemble shout chorus a minor third higher. Includes an optional flute part. The unique surprise ending will treat the audience and band to a few happy moments. Hint: (Opt. one bar vocal ending).

Clarinet and orchestra

SKU: FG.55009-633-2

Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55009-633-2).

ISBN 979-0-55009-633-2.

The concerto has five movements played without pause. The beginning Tempestoso is dramatic and powerful, but there is also a beautiful, slow middle section. The second movement consists of a virtuosic solo cadenza, which is dominated by mysterious tremolos on the clarinet.The cadenza leads to Vivace, con brio, which is the central climax of the concerto and the most virtuosic movement both for the orchestra and the soloist. Then follows the slow, melancholic and lyrical fourth movement Adagio, mesto. The Epilogue is slow, too; the atmosphere of the last movement is unreal, mysterious. The solo part at the end consists largely of broken, multiphonic clarinet sounds before the concerto fades out into a silence.

Unison voices, cantor, assembly, keyboard accompaniment, guitar - Beginning

SKU: GI.G-10059

Composed by Carlos Zapién. Mass. Sacred. Octavo. With guitar chord names. 16 pages. GIA Publications #10059. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-10059).

UPC: 785147005919. Spanish. Text Source: Misal Romano, tercera edición

(March (Full Score and Parts)). By Larry Clark. Concert Band. For Concert Band. Carl Fischer Beginning Performance Series. Grade 1. Score and Set of Parts. Standard notation. 8 pages

SAB choir, piano accompaniment, guitar, C instrument - Beginning

SKU: GI.G-7156

Composed by Kathy Powell. Ordinary Time 30 C. Choral. Sacred. Octavo. With guitar chord names. 8 pages. GIA Publications #7156. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-7156).

UPC: 785147715603. English. Text by Mary Louise Bringle. Scripture: Psalm 17:8, Psalm 22:15, Psalm 30:5, Psalm 57:1, Psalm 91:1–6, Psalm 126:5–6, Deuteronomy 32:11, Luke 13:34.

With echoes of Psalms 91 and 126, and the use of some feminine images of God, this SAB piece is a celebration of confidence and comfort at being held in God's love. It has a most interesting harmonic development that takes us on a journey of harmonic progressions that does not resolve to tonic until the final measure. Guitar part is optional.

Critical Edition Solo Violin. By Italo Vescovo. String Solo. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2019. 24 pages. Ricordi #NR14194600. Published by Ricordi

Concert band (Flute 1/Piccolo, Flute 2, Oboe 1/2, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2, Bb Clarinet 3, Eb Alto Clarinet*, Bb Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2*, Alto Saxophone 1, Alto Saxophone 2, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone*, Bb Cornet 1, Bb Cornet 2, Bb Cornet 3, B) - grade 4.5

SKU: CN.R10214

Composed by Derek Bourgeois. Band Music. Score and parts. Duration 4:30. Published by G & M Brand Music Publishers (CN.R10214).

Adapted from the slow movement of Bourgeois' own Sonata for Brass Quintet, Northern Lament is a powerful work with a fiery climax in the middle and thematic material derived from a simple & memorable melody.

This piece originated in the slow movement of Sonata for Brass Quintet, which I wrote in 1965 whilst still a pupil of Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music, London. It had been commissioned by the Halle Brass Quintet, although they never performed the work. In 1997, Timothy Reynish suggested that I should arrange the work for wind orchestra. I decided to expand the movement into something more than double its original length, adding a fiery climax to its central section. The whole movement derives from the simple melody stated at the beginning. Because of Timothy Reynish's association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England and because the original sonata was never played by the northern-based Halle Brass Quintet who invited me to write it, I decided to call the new piece Northern Lament..

Concert band (Flute 1/Piccolo, Flute 2, Oboe 1/2, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2, Bb Clarinet 3, Eb Alto Clarinet*, Bb Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2*, Alto Saxophone 1, Alto Saxophone 2, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone*, Bb Cornet 1, Bb Cornet 2, Bb Cornet 3, B) - grade 4.5

SKU: CN.S11214

Composed by Derek Bourgeois. Band Music. Score only. Duration 4:30. Published by G & M Brand Music Publishers (CN.S11214).

Adapted from the slow movement of Bourgeois' own Sonata for Brass Quintet, Northern Lament is a powerful work with a fiery climax in the middle and thematic material derived from a simple & memorable melody.

This piece originated in the slow movement of Sonata for Brass Quintet, which I wrote in 1965 whilst still a pupil of Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music, London. It had been commissioned by the Halle Brass Quintet, although they never performed the work. In 1997, Timothy Reynish suggested that I should arrange the work for wind orchestra. I decided to expand the movement into something more than double its original length, adding a fiery climax to its central section. The whole movement derives from the simple melody stated at the beginning. Because of Timothy Reynish's association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England and because the original sonata was never played by the northern-based Halle Brass Quintet who invited me to write it, I decided to call the new piece Northern Lament..