With You captures and celebrates the essence of the ensemble experience: making music with one another. A somber setting evolves into soaring melodies to invite musicality and expression, while providing challenges for groups of varying levels of experience.…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ben Lee
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
In Wonderworld, the band enters into a mysterious and colorful world of circuses and fairgrounds. However, life is not just “bread and circuses;” in the middle of the piece there is time for the darker sides of life.Program NotesWonderworld was commissioned…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ilari Hylkilä
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
2017-18 J.W. Pepper Editor's Choice Selection This free setting of the hymn song “What Wondrous Love Is This” focuses on the variety of tonal colors and instrumental textures possible with the wind band. While technically written for younger ensembles, the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Alto Saxophone Feature
Woodland Serenade & Rondo is a 6-minute concerto, crafted to spotlight not only a fine saxophone soloist, but also to give a director the opportunity to feature other outstanding solo wind players in the ensemble.Program…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Catherine McMichael
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Yankee Doodle Bandy is a theme and variations on the familiar tune, but with a twist. Throughout the piece melodies from classic band literature - some well known and others less so - provide interludes and counterpoint to the main melody. With a patriotic…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Ye Merry Fantasy is a clever theme and variations on the Christmas carol “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” that takes the listener on a journey through several iterations of the popular tune, each shining a spotlight on different sections of the 6-part flexible…
Style:
Flex Band
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Xylophone/Marimba Feature
Zarabanda is in several sections with a Latin style rhythm that occasionally gets interrupted by accented outbursts from the ensemble. As the piece develops and moves from section to section, new rhythmic and melodic ideas are…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Joseph Turrin
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Zephyr is a poetic term for a gentle breeze. Nature offers few pleasures that are more calm and peaceful than the mood we feel with a refreshing breeze. It is this thought that is the stimulus for this ballad for band.
Grade Level: 2 Copyright: 2004 Number of…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
In five and a half minutes, the composer takes the listener on a sonic journey across a vast, awe-inspiring landscape that is filled with adventure one might expect in worlds dreamed up by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Grade Level: 3.5 Copyright: 2016 Number of Players:…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Ilari Hylkilä
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
You can’t get any closer to flying than riding the Zip Line! Great adventure as well as several teaching moments appear in this driving piece, including melody in upper and lower voices as well as active percussion lines. Enjoy taking a ride on the Zip Line…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Joshua V. Hinkel
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications