All Hail the Power is a powerful, collaborative work in five movements, each one by a different composer. Based on a popular hymn, this work has everything. Richly scored sections of soaring beauty, thoughtful variations, driving rhythms, mixed meters, and an…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Jack Stamp, Timothy Mahr, Pappas, Andrew Boysen, David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Jack Stamp's clever arrangement of the French Christmas carol Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella is filled with sparkle and enough 7/8 to keep the players and listeners on their toes.
Grade Level: 4 Copyright: 2021 Number of Players: Standard Duration: 2:35…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Jack Stamp
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
This selection is an exciting opener to any beginning band concert! Champion Fanfare utilizes doubling among brass and woodwind sections to provide ease of teaching while providing students with “backup” to build up confidence. The use of light percussion…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David Samuel
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Dance of the Imp is one of those pieces that comes along every once in a while, that just makes you say “wow”! It is a masterpiece from start to finish. Clever melodic and harmonic devices by composer David Samuel make this piece so right in every way.
Grade…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David Samuel
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
In Memory of Gerard Schurmann
Dedicated to and written in memory of the composer Gerard Schurmann, Jack Stamp's Elegy begins stridently; grief which moves to anger. A more reflective section ensues which is sad and lonely. After quoting an excerpt from…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Jack Stamp
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
English Horn Feature
After a powerful & dark opening, the rich & sonorous sounds of the solo English Horn emerges playing beautifully poignant melody that will haunt you for days. Stamp’s signature counterpoint and polytonality give this solo feature…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Jack Stamp
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
At this point, no one can deny the skill with which composer David Samuel crafts music for the concert band. Fatebringer is foreboding, brooding, and on an endlessly steady march towards its exciting conclusion. Put your brass on display with this dynamic new…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David Samuel
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
At times dark & intense, at others lyrical and romantic, Jack Stamp's Fountain Creek Fanfare is engaging from beginning to end. After its "crunchy" start, the piece evolves into something much brighter and uplifting by the final measures.
Grade Level: 4…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Jack Stamp
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Mezzo Soprano Feature
This collection of songs for soprano voice and band celebrate Maryland’s heritage by setting four diverse poems to music: “At the Edge of the Choptank River,” “A Maryland Road,” “On Chesapeake Shores: A Fisherman’s Sonnet,” and “The…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Jack Stamp
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
With its title meaning “a skipping or leaping about in play,” Gambol incorporates canonic and fugal elements along with Copland-esque harmonies that will invigorate both performers and audience.Program NotesDuring this time of the COVID-19 pandemic (summer,…
Style:
Flex Band
Composer:
Jack Stamp
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications