Grade 3.5

SKU: CL.012-3431-01

Arranged by A. Clark. Concert Band. Spotlight Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR334). Extra full score. Composed 2005. Duration 3 minutes, 23 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3431-01. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3431-01).

Composed in the last year of Bach's life, Contrapunctus IX is an exciting double fugue that has been adapted to provide an exciting and challenging work for the modern concert band-wind ensemble. Full of independence throughout, every part is important and all sections get plenty of chances to shine in this powerful arrangement which will be a true showcase for better bands. An impressive choice for any concert or contest performance!

About C.L. Barnhouse Spotlight Series

The Barnhouse Spotlight series includes publications for solo instruments with concert band accompaniment. These publications are designed to feature outstanding members of your band as soloist, and to provide unique and entertaining programming options. Solo parts are graded more difficult than the band accompaniments

Band Concert Band - Grade 2

SKU: CF.YPS198

Composed by Tyler Arcari. Young Band (YPS). Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 8+2+8+8+2+4+10+4+2+4+4+8+ 12+6+3+1+1+4+2+16+4 pages. Duration 2 minutes, 14 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #YPS198. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.YPS198).

ISBN 9781491152188. UPC: 680160909681. Key: C minor.

All the While was inspired by a very special person in Tyler Arcari's life. Directors will be happy to find many opportunities for emotional and passionate playing with plenty of fun in the middle for young bands.  All the While gives students a number of chances to work on expressive playing during the beginning and ending sections, and offers a light rhythmic middle section for contrast.
Program Notes:All the While is a bit of a personal piece for me. I was inspired to write it by a very special person in my life. It might be a young-band piece but I feel that it has the capacity for great emotion and passionate playing as well as a little fun in the middle. Sometimes it is difficult to tell people how you feel, even if you have known them for a long time. I think sometimes we say in our heads that “I have felt this way for a long time,” and all the while never being able to put it to words.About the work:The piece opens with a flute and alto saxophone duet. This melody trades off at m. 10 with the addition of new voices and harmonies building in intensity all the way to m. 28. I personally like to use extended phrases in this section, though it looks like it would just utilize four-measure phrases. I feel this adds to the momentum building in dynamic intensity. Measure 28 is a subito change beginning with a prominent Timpani solo. The following section should be played as lightly as possible to avoid a lumbering feel. In mm. 68- 70, the agogic accents should not be very heavy, but more pointed in their momentum to m. 70.Measures 70–76 should be taken with metric liberty bringing out all of the moving parts in the low brass. The low brass really adds the foundation of momentum for the rest of the band here. Measure 76 to the end, though a repetition of material from the beginning, should be played as the high point of the piece and familiar conclusion.

Grade 2.5

SKU: CL.011-3484-01

Composed by Earl. Young Concert Band. Command Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR342). Extra full score. Composed 2006. Duration 4 minutes, 2 seconds. C.L. Barnhouse #011-3484-01. Published by C.L. Barnhouse (CL.011-3484-01).

A exceptionally nice composition for developing bands that utilizes a set of variations based on an eight bar melodic motive. All sections get chances to shine and the contrasts between the individual variations give the piece a distinct sound which is both appealing and educational. An impressive composition for this grade level that is a superlative choice for any concert or contest performance. Very highly recommended!

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.

Chamber Music Flute, Piano, Viola

SKU: PR.11440719S

Composed by Nathan Currier. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 44 pages. Duration 11 minutes, 30 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #114-40719S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11440719S).

UPC: 680160011087. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Sambuca, which most people know today as a licorice-flavored liqueur, was the name the Greeks gave to a kind of sharp, shrill-sounding harp, of Eastern, possibly Jewish origin. The Greeks then gave this same name to a wooden flute made from the elder bush, and in the middle ages it was also associated with the viol, at least to the extent that the Hurdy-gurdy, an instrument shaped like a viol and played by means of a rotating wheel, was sometimes called a Sambuca rotata. Thus, the word Sambuca is tied up with the ancestors - in each case, ancestors of ow birth, as it were - of the modern harp, flute, and viola. Somehow, the present-day association with alcohol seems very meet, in that a certain objectionable quality seems to have gone with the name - in 1545 one George Ascham wrote, This I am sure... all maner of pypes, barbitons, sambukes... be condemned of Aristotle. The word Sambucistria - for a female Sambuca player - was used by Plutarch and others to evoke a feeling of foreign-inspired decadence [Grove's Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 1984]. Currier's work is truly a Sambuca sonata. Written for the three Sambuca instruments, Currier has first of all seemingly endeavoured to make the harp part particularly Sambuca-like (i.e., sharp and shrill) with its many nail and xylophonic effects, but more importantly, has used musical material that corresponds to the low-brow, somewhat Dionysian, indeed, today even Bacchanalian implication of the name - thus, rock music seems to inspire a great deal Currier's work [the Samba, an appropriately Bacchanalian Brazilian Carnival dance, in duple meter with syncopations, while apparently having no etymological connection to Sambuca, might seem to be musically involved, too]. The Sambuca which lies behind this rather drunken piece is probably the only musical instrument which became a model for an instrument of war; one Craxton wrote in 1489 that Sambuce is an engyn whiche is made in manere of a harpe able to perce a walle. But whether talking of the modern liqueur or the ancient instrument condemned of Aristotle and mentioned four times in the Book of Daniel, it is a shame that Debussy - inspired by the Dionysian side of classical culture (as in Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune) - seems to have remained ignorant Sambuca, a word which to some extent must lie behind all works for this wonderful instrumentation which he invented, and which I might seem to have striven unconsciously, equally ignorant, to make the sole basis of Currier's work - until, having completed this piece, written for harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet, and rummaging around for a title, I chanced upon it in an old dictionary.

Choral (ShowTrax CD)

SKU: HL.290826

From Mary Poppins Returns. By Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda. By Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Arranged by Mark A. Brymer. Disney Choral. Disney, Movies, Musicals, Show Choir, Vaudeville. CD. Duration 185 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.290826).

UPC: 888680923914. 5.0x5.0x0.15 inches.

A showpiece of technical skill and lyrical wizardry in the 2018 sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, this jaunty and cheeky turn-of-phrase masterclass is a testament to Mark Shaiman's understanding of the enigma that is Lin-Manuel Miranda. With chances for soloists to re-create the wordsmith's most twisting and turning rap sections, the 6/8 romp of the main chorus is absolutely singable and memorable, with a blast being had by all involved!

Grade 3.5

SKU: CL.012-3349-01

Composed by Earl. Concert Band. Heritage of the March Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR331). Extra full score. Composed 2004. Duration 6 minutes, 44 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3349-01. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3349-01).

A vibrant new composition by a fresh young writer. An exciting piece that makes full use of all three instrument families and each gets several chances to shine. The Brass starts things off at an exciting Allegro Vivo tempo. An eloquent lyrical section includes short solos for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Alto Sax and all solos are amply cued to insure playability. Brilliantly scored to demonstrate a wide variety of tonal colors and there's lots of tasty percussion writing to challenge your entire section. An exceptional programming choice for any festival or concert performance. IMPRESSIVE!

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

Grade 3

SKU: CL.012-3398-01

Fantasy on Early American Airs. Composed by Longfield. Concert Band. Command Series. Audio recording available separately (items CL.WFR335 & CL.WFR343). Extra full score. Composed 2005. Duration 7 minutes, 12 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3398-01. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3398-01).

A dramatic and inspiring patriotic composition which contains fresh musical treatments of Yankee Doodle, Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier, America and a full symphonic treatment of The Star-Spangled Banner. A great concert opener or closer, and is suitable for any patriotic or civic occasion. (The Star-Spangled Banner can be played alone, with or without audience participation.) Challenging, but amazingly playable for a piece that sounds so spectacular and impressive! All sections of the band get several chances to shine and it's a full-blown extravaganza that is perfect for a zillion programming situations. Very impressive!

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.

Grade 4

SKU: CL.012-3160-75

Composed by Shaffer. Concert Band. Classics Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR318). Oversized, spiral-bound score. Composed 2001. Duration 6 minutes, 51 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3160-75. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3160-75).

David Shaffer 's most impressive work to date is based on the famous Largo (Goin' Home) Section of Dvorak's New World Symphony. Contains magnificent writing that provides all sections of the band with equal chances to shine. Especially suited for bands in concert or contest, this exceptional tour-de-force for mature bands is destined to become an important and popular addition to the wind band repertoire. Very Highly Recommended!!

About C.L. Barnhouse Classics Series

Und er the editorial supervision of Dr. Alfred Reed, these classics from master composers have been adapted and arranged for concert band. A perfect way to acquaint concert band performers and audiences with some of the greatest classical music of all time!

Choral TTB choir, piano

SKU: CF.CM9780

Composed by Mark Patterson. Duration 3 minutes, 19 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #CM9780. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM9780).

ISBN 9781491164518. UPC: 680160923427. Key: D major. English. Mark Patterson. Original.

A choir is one of the most wonderful gatherings of humanity that we can be a part of. Within every ensemble is a collection of budding or accomplished thinkers, dreamers, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, philosophers, politicians, public servants, scientists, and more. Chances are good that there is enough thought power in your ensemble to solve most of the world's problems. But sometimes we are afraid to speak up.  We don't think our individual voice matters. Or we just assume we'll be drowned out by the louder voices that tend to get noticed first.This piece is about finding your voice: having the courage to speak up about the things on your heart and the things that can help make our world a better place.And so we must sing. The world needs your voice!—Mark Patterson.

Grade 4

SKU: CL.012-3434-75

Composed by Huckeby. Concert Band. Heritage of the March Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR334). Oversized, spiral-bound score. Composed 2005. Duration 5 minutes, 57 seconds. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3434-75. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3434-75).

A dynamic new programmatic work which depicts events and scenes from the history and folklore of Annandale, Minnesota. Events depicted include the Great Train Wreck of 1922 and a visit to Al Capone's hideout on nearby Bungalow Island. The music features solos for horn and trumpet and every section of the band get lots of chances to shine. There are many percussion parts which will keep even the largest percussion section interested and involved. An impressive composition that is a terrific choice for any concert or contest performance.

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