Let your percussionist shine with this exciting lively work for xylophone and brass band. Makes an ideal encore piece or lighter item in any concert programme.

The Typewriter arranged for brass band by Andrew Duncan as a cornet or xylophone solo is probably most recognised now as the theme tune to the long-running BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz. Brass Band Grade 4: Advanced Youth and 3rd Section. Duration: 4 minutes.

Brass Quintet with Xylophone Solo-George Hamilton Green's xylophone rags are well known and loved by today's keyboard percussion players and audiences around the world. They are exciting challenging and really fun to play. Now in this new arrangement for brass quintet and solo xylophone - from Xylophone Rags of George Hamilton Green published by Meredith Music - the listener is taken back in time to the days of ragtime music and this important part of America's musical heritage. Xylophone solo by Jonathan Bisesi.

Vittorio Monti was born on January 6 1868 in Naples (Italy). His musical education (Violin and composition) he enjoyed at the conservatory there. Around his 30's Monti went to Paris. He earned a living as a conductor and wrote several ballets and operettas. In his last years before his death in 1922 Monti devoted himself to teaching and composing. His famous 'Czardas' has made his name known even today.Initially the Czardas was a Hungarian folk dance but after the mid-nineteenth century it was even a dance for the upper-class. Czardas begins with a slow introduction the Lassan (slow and sad) and then the fast part Friska follows. Czardas is not as so many people think typical gypsy music.