PARTITIONS GRATUITES : VIOLON ET PIANO
- Rite of Passage

Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 1

SKU: FJ.B1018

Composed by Brian Balmages. Arranged by Brian Balmages. Beginning Band. FJH Beginning Band. Score and Part(s). Duration 2:00. The FJH Music Company Inc #98-B1018. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc (FJ.B1018).

UPC: 674398205479. English.

A beginning band piece limited to a 6-note range, Rite of Passage will have your band playing together in very little time. Utilizing smaller chamber sections as well as the full band, this is an excellent teaching piece. With no clarinets over the break and no trumpets higher than a written A, this is a very easy Grade 1 concert march. (2:00).

About FJH Beginning Band

Appro priate within the first year of instruction and beginning of the second year. Clarinets do not go above the break, and there is limited use of accidentals. Plenty of doublings in the lower voices. Grade 1.

By Jesse Monkman. Percussion Ensemble. For 5 octave marimba, 5 toms, 2 mounted tambourines, bongos, vibraphone, 2 snare drums, 3 sus. Cyms., china cymbal, Chinese opera gong, 2 bass drums, temple blocks, 5 roto toms, tam tam, brake drum, bell tree. (3 players). Level: Advanced. 2 scores (1 with full marimba and reduced percussion parts; 1 with percussion parts and marimba cues). Duration 12:30. Published by Tapspace Publications.

Album for the Young. The Washington Winds, Edward S. Petersen, conductor. CD. Composed 2013. Published by Walking Frog Records (CL.WFR380).

SKU: GI.G-7266

Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland. Composed by Kristen Laine. Instructional. 325 pages. GIA Publications #7266. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-7266).

ISBN 9781592403196. English.

Every fall, marching bands take to the field in a uniquely American ritual. From the stands, it looks easy. You don’t see them sweat. For millions of kids, band is more than a show. It’s a rite of passage—a first foray into leadership and adult responsibility, and a chance to learn what it means to be part of a community. Nowhere is band more serious than at Concord High School in Elkhart, Indiana, where the entire town is involved with the success of its defending state champion band, the Marching Minutemen. In the place where this tradition may have originated, in the city that became the band instrument capital of the world, band is a religion. But it’s not the only religion, as director Max Jones discovers. After four decades. Jones’s single-minded devotion to musical excellence has fallen out of step with a younger generation increasingly focused on personal salvation. In what his students do not know is his final season of directing, he has assembled his most ambitious show ever, for the strongest senior class he has ever directed. Amid conflicting notions of greatness, the band marches through a season that starts in hope and promise, progresses through uncertainty and disappointment, and ends, ultimately, in redemption. American Band is an unusually intimate chronicle of life, in all its triumph, disappointment, and drama, in the kind of community in which most of America lives. It is an especially timely portrait, capturing as it does the spirit of the heartland at a time of profound change. If you have ever been— or yearned to be— part of something bigger than yourself, you will be rooting for the kids whose voices fill this book. Kirsten Laine is an award-winning journalist whose commentaries can be heard on Vermont Public Radio. She lives in New Hampshire with writer Jim Collins and their two children. “American Band has everything going for it, from tempo to heart to the grand bittersweet finale. What a gift for readers: a pitch-perfect tribute to kids and song and community.” —Madeleine Blais Pulitzer Prize winner and author of In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle.

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.UT050417

Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Edited by Jochen Reutter Nils Franke. Score. With Standard notation. Wiener Urtext/Vienna Urtext #UT050417. Published by Wiener Urtext/Vienna Urtext (PR.UT050417).

ISBN 9783850557740. UPC: 800522003325.

The Rachmaninov Prelude is one of those classics you can name in three notes. A global success shortly after he first performed it in 1892, the Prelude has become a rite of passage for advancing pianists. Its dynamic chordal passages, slow-building middle section, and clanging finale bring forth the full power of the instrument, solidifying the Prelude's place in the repertoire. In preparing the urtext edition, Reutter and Franke have consulted the autograph and first print, as well as Rachmaninov's own recordings of the piece.

Saddle-stitched. Folk. Book and online audio. 172 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31061M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

Alto saxophone, piano

SKU: FG.55011-432-6

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Fennica Gehrman #55011-432-6. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-432-6).

ISBN 9790550114326.

Acco rding to the composer, the sonata for alto saxophone and piano, which he regards as his first mature composition, takes its title from the astronomical term referring to the spacetime boundary in a black hole beyond which light can no longer escape - a point of no return. Event Horizons is an intensely emotional piece, stemming from reflections on the immensity of the universe and one's own place in it. The title was merely a catalyst, an image that sparked the creative process. Whittall was also greatly affected by the spaciousness and subtle intricacies of Eastern music - the gamelan music of Bali in particularly.

Much of the resulting music is reminiscent of the ringing of bells or gongs, which in so many cultures has great ceremonial and spiritual importance. They can be seen as a symbol of connection between the natural and meta-physical worlds. At its core, Event Horizons is an intense rite of passage, a quest for ultimate understanding, and perhaps reaches it, at least in part.

(Words and Chords to Nearly 1200 Songs 9x12 Spiral Bound). Edited by Annie Patterson and Peter Blood. For Vocal. Vocal. Softcover. 304 pages. Published by Hal Leonard