Grab your sword, don your armor, and raise your shields. This is the beginning of a great adventure! Liam-Ramsey White has given younger musicians something truly fun to play!
Grade Level: 1.5 Copyright: 2022 Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing Series:…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Liam Ramsey-White
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
This piece embodies the adrenalin rush of racing down a mountain on an alpine slide. You control the speed of your cart as you weave your way past picturesque scenery. Surprises wait around every turn and there’s no telling what you will fly by. One thing is…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Liam Ramsey-White
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Newcomer Liam Ramsey-White flies out of the gate with Dragon’s Flight! Liam knows how to write for string orchestra and it shows with this dynamic and intense work. Students will take a journey alongside this ancient and mythical creature in this light and…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Liam Ramsey-White
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
After an ominous opening, The Falcon Ascending takes flight with a blazing syncopated theme that alternates between 3/4 and 2/4. A brief, lush chorale section contrasts the joyride that bookends it, with the piece finishing with the thrilling flight that…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Alexander Safford
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Brilliant, fresh and bright! Newcomer Liam Ramsey-White has created a piece that is truly luminous. Work on bell-tone techniques and harmonics as well as mixed-meter in this accessible grade 3 piece for string orchestra. The piece, uniquely ends on a “fade-…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Liam Ramsey-White
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Inspired by a fond memory of trudging through the mud at a volleyball game, this new work for string orchestra is both quirky and charming. You and your students will love Mud Trudge.
Grade Level: 2.5 Copyright: 2022 Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Liam Ramsey-White
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Numerologies is a comparative exploration of sounds between the steel pan and violin. The performers exclusively use extended techniques morphing the characteristic sounds of the instruments to create blended, alien tones. The work is in three movements, each…
Style:
String
Composer:
Louis Raymond-Kolker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Restless Little Star is a vibraphone solo that details the anxiety of a sleepless night. The performer moves from delicate energies into a syncopated groove, before everything dissipates into echoes of the original music.Program NotesRestless Little Star…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Louis Raymond-Kolker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
the shared breath of the earth is a solo for melodic timpani, and a celebration of three characters of nature that live in urban settings. A true challenge for the timpanist, the extreme pedaling demands contrast the delicate music that lives within.Program…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Louis Raymond-Kolker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Under a Hazy Moon is based on the image of light shining off of the moon on a cloudy night. The texture is constantly turning as the clouds move and the light shifts. The work begins with two central pitches with little flashes of light bursting through. The…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Louis Raymond-Kolker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications