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Le Petit Equipage
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
By Jean-Michel Maury. Clarinet Quartet and Percussion. For 3 Bb Clarinets, 1 Bass Clarinet…
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By Jean-Michel Maury. Clarinet Quartet and Percussion. For 3 Bb Clarinets, 1 Bass Clarinet, Percussion. Classical, Educational. Grade 2. Score and Set of Parts. 5 pages (score); 5 pages (parts). Published by FLEX Editions - Digital Sheet Music (FX.FX07162
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Jean-Michel Maury
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Le Petit Equipage
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Oh, Pretty Woman
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet,E-Flat Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Downl…
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Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet,E-Flat Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1244238 By Roy Orbison. By Bill Dees and Roy Orbison. Arranged by G L Harvey. 20th Century,Film/TV,Instructional,Pop,Wedding. 22 pages. G L Harvey #839220. Published by G L Harvey (A0.1244238). This massive hit by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees has been carefully arranged for Clarinet Quintet (Clarinet in Eb, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Alto Clarinet in Eb and Bass Clarinet) plus optional percussion.  With school and amateur ensembles in mind, this arrangement is designed for intermediate players and above.  Percussion (Drum Kit or  Cajon) can be added for additional colour if desired, but is not essential for a convincing performance.  The music is faithful in spirit to the original, with everyone having their moments in the spotlight as themes are shared by the players across the ensemble.  The PDF is 22 pages in length (portrait A4) and includes a score and parts plus optional percussion, with additional parts for Clarinet in Bb to allow substitution of the Eb and Alto Clarinets for more flexible ensembles if required. The duration of the piece is about 2.20 minutes.  Look out for other instrumental versions by the same publisher for Saxophone, Wind and Brass Quintets.
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Roy Orbison
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Oh, Pretty Woman
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We've Only Just Begun
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.767536…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.767536 By The Carpenters. By Paul Williams and Roger Nichols. Arranged by Mike Lyons. Pop,Rock. 14 pages. Lyons Music Services #5045213. Published by Lyons Music Services (A0.767536). A brand new arrangement of this Carpenters classic song for standard wind quintet. Great for any easy-listening type of programme or as a contrast to other classical or modern music. The melody is shared around the ensemble so everyone gets the chance to shine..Very easy to play and suitable for any standard of ensemble.Parts included for Eb Clarinet Bb Clarinet x 3 and Bass clarinet with an optional percussion part.
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The Carpenters
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...ready For It?
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download …
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download SKU: A0.510066 By Taylor Swift. By Ali Payami, Max Martin, Shellback, and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Andrea La Rose. Pop. 74 pages. Published by Andrea La Rose (A0.510066). Bass Clarinet Quintet (awesome, right?) and percussion trio (hi-hat, snare drum, bass drum), lovingly transcribed and arranged. In the same key as the recording.
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Taylor Swift
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...ready For It?
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Andrea La Rose
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Oh Christmas tree - Oh Tannenbaum - Funky - Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.5…
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Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.568025 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Thomas Graf. Christmas,Jazz. 29 pages. Thomas Graf - the-hit-factory.com #2343171. Published by Thomas Graf - the-hit-factory.com (A0.568025). This is a **funky-funny highlight** of your Christmas concert. Based on the old German traditional song you have a groovy tune that will make your audience clap. Promised! And don’t forget: Christmas is coming earlier than thought! And: What fun would it be to add a percussion player to your ensemble? Even more fun and success! Promised! Sincerely Thomas Instrumentation: Clarinet 1/2/3 in Bb, Basset Horn/Clarinet 4 in Bb, Bass Clarinet in Bb Listen to the recording - a challenge for your ensemble. Check out our latest uploads: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/thomas-graf-the-hit-factory-com/smp-press/3001412+1303131?N... Any individual arrangement and substitute parts are available on request. Call +49 (0) 172 2515987 E-Mail: info@the-hit-factory.com. www.the-hit-factory.com facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hitfactorymusic New catalog included (2016,9 pages) Video: https://youtu.be/8ZMbemlnCgc
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Oh Christmas tree - Oh Tannenbaum - Funky - Clarinet Quintet
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Made You Look
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.124947…
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Clarinet Quintet,Woodwind Ensemble Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1249478 By Meghan Trainor. By Luis Federico Vindver, Megan Trainor, and Sean Douglas. Arranged by Lisa Ochoco. 21st Century,Contemporary,Pop. 18 pages. Lisa L Ochoco #843912. Published by Lisa L Ochoco (A0.1249478). This catchy doo-wop song resonates with people with its familiar chord progressions and beat.  Trainor co-wrote this song as part of a therapy exercise after she became insecure about her body after her pregnancy. While this is an instrumental version, the lyrics of this song promote self-love and self-confidence.  The tune is quite repetitive, but it's fun to play and, if anything, is a good filler in between your more technically challenging pieces in your recital. Scored for clarinet quartet - 4 Bb.  There are also 2 percussion parts that are optional, but they are there if in case there is a person at your disposal who can play them along with you. This song is just a feel-good, toe-tapping piece that is not difficult and quite entertaining.Duration: 2.25 minutes.
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Meghan Trainor
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Made You Look
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Lisa L Ochoco
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Oh Christmas tree - Latin - (Oh Tannenbaum) - Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet,E-Flat Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.56…
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Woodwind Ensemble Bass Clarinet,E-Flat Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.568792 Composed by Trad. Arranged by Thomas Graf. Christmas,Holiday,Jazz,Latin. 36 pages. Thomas Graf - the-hit-factory.com #3256905. Published by Thomas Graf - the-hit-factory.com (A0.568792). This is a **Latin-funny highlight** of your Christmas concert. Based on the old German traditional song you have a groovy Latin tune that will make your audience clap. Promised! And don’t forget: Christmas is coming earlier than thought! And: What fun would it be to add a percussion player to your ensemble? Even more fun and success - some parts are included!  Instrumentation: Clarinet 1/2/3/4 in Bb, Clarinet 3/4 in Eb(Alt), Basset Horn, Bass Clarinet in Bb, 6 Percusssion (opt.)      Listen to the recording - a challenge for your ensemble. Check out our latest uploads: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/thomas-graf-the-hit-factory-com/smp-press/3001412+1303131?N...                               Any individual arrangement and substitute parts are available on request. Call +49 (0) 172 2515987 E-Mail: info@the-hit-factory.com. www.the-hit-factory.com facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hitfactorymusic       Video: https://www.youtu.be/qkfmxvq7g4c  2017 Holiday Contest Entry.
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Pachelbel's Canon for Clarinet Quintet
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.805888…
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Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.805888 Composed by Johann Pachelbel. Arranged by G L Harvey. Baroque,Graduation,Standards,Wedding. 15 pages. G L Harvey #5298807. Published by G L Harvey (A0.805888). Pachelbel's baroque classic has been arranged here for clarinet quintet and optional percussion. With apologies to Pachelbel! this arrangement has a slightly more more contemporary feel and a new lease of life, even more so with the optional drums. The Bass Clarinet part in the quintet can be substituted with bass guitar (additional part included), thus allowing the piece to be performed by a clarinet quartet with bass guitar and drums. It has been carefully designed to work within the resources of players at about grade 5/6 and above (ABRSM), depending of course on tempo setting. This piece is a favorite with players and audiences alike and will be a popular addition to any concert performance or special occasion.
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Johann Pachelbel
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Watermelon Man for Clarinet Quintet & Opt. Drumset
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 22 pages. Published…
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By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 22 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
Arranged for Clarinet Quintet & optional drumset, "Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock, first released on his debut album, Takin' Off (1962), in a grooving hard bop version that featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon.
A single of the tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a latin pop single the next year on Battle Records, where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10 on the pop charts. Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).
Hancock's first version was released as a grooving hard bop record, and featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon. A single reached the Top 100 of the pop chart. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a Latin pop single and it became a surprise hit, reaching No. 10 on the pop chart.[2] Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).
Hancock wrote the piece to help sell his debut album as a leader, Takin' Off (1962), on Blue Note Records; it was the first piece of music he had ever composed with a commercial goal in mind. The popularity of the piece, due primarily to Mongo Santamaría, paid Hancock's bills for five or six years. Hancock did not feel the composition was a sellout however, describing that structurally, it was one of his strongest pieces due to its almost mathematical balance.
The form is a sixteen bar blues. Recalling the piece, Hancock said, "I remember the cry of the watermelon man making the rounds through the back streets and alleys of Chicago. The wheels of his wagon beat out the rhythm on the cobblestones." The tune, based on a bluesy piano riff, drew on elements of R&B, soul jazz and bebop, all combined into a pop hook. Hancock joined bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins in the rhythm section, with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone. Hancock's chordal work draws from the gospel tradition, while he builds his solo on repeated riffs and trilled figures.
Hancock filled in for pianist Chick Corea in Mongo Santamaría's band one weekend at a nightclub in The Bronx when Corea gave notice that he was leaving. Hancock played the tune for Santamaría at friend Donald Byrd's urging. Santamaría started accompanying him on his congas, then his band joined in, and the small audience slowly got up from their tables and started dancing, laughing and having a great time. Santamaría later asked Hancock if he could record the tune. On December 17, 1962, Mongo Santamaría recorded a three-minute version, suitable for radio, where he joined timbalero Francisco "Kako" Baster in a cha-cha beat, while drummer Ray Lucas performed a backbeat. Santamaría included the track on his album Watermelon Man (1962). Santamaría's recording is sometimes considered the beginning of Latin boogaloo, a fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with those of R&B
Hancock re-recorded the tune for Head Hunters (1973), combining synthesizers with a Sly Stone and James Brown funk influence, adding an eight-bar section. Hancock described his composition "Chameleon", also from Head Hunters, to Down Beat magazine in 1979: "In the popular forms of funk, which I've been trying to get into, the attention is on the rhythmic interplay between different instruments. The part the Clavinet plays has to fit with the part the drums play and the line the bass plays and the line that the guitar plays. It's almost like African drummers where seven drummers play different parts"; "Watermelon Man" shares a similar construction. A live version was released on the double LP Flood (1975), recorded in Japan.
On the intro and outro of the tune, percussionist Bill Summers blows into beer bottles imitating hindewhu, a style of singing/whistle-playing found in Pygmy music of Central Africa. Hancock and Summers were struck by the sound, which they heard on the ethnomusicology LP, The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies (1966), by Simha Arom and Geneviève Taurelle.
This version was often featured on The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s segments.
The tune is a jazz standard and has been recorded over two hundred times. Hancock's recording has been sampled in "1-900-LL-Cool-J" from Walking with a Panther (1989) by LL Cool J, "Open Your Eyes" from Organized Konfusion (1991) by Organized Konfusion, "Smoke Some Kill" from Smoke Some Kill (1988) by Schoolly D, and "Pocket Full of Furl" from Uptown 4 Life (1996) by U.N.L.V. In 2003, pianist David Benoit covered the song from his album Right Here, Right Now.
A live and funky performance at the 1999 Montreux Jazz Festival Casino Lights '99 featured Fourplay, George Duke, Boney James and Kirk Whalum trading choruses, and Rick Braun.
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