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A La Lute invokes the great lute music of the past, while being completely accessible by your beginning guitarists and wind players. The spooky melody is also a great way to teach about the A melodic minor scale! A great way to combine your guitarists and concert band!
Away We Go! tells the story of the low brass inviting the whole band on a big adventure…and everyone getting a little lost along the way before they find each other. This catchy 6/8 pieces serves as a great teaching vehicle, and would make a wonderful introduction to 6/8 for your students. Every section gets the chance to play the melody, including percussion, and there’s a euphonium feature!
Fanfare In B is exactly what it says it is-a great grade 1 fanfare in B major! Rhythms (eighth notes only, no syncopation), ranges (clarinets stay below the break), and orchestration are kept achievable for first year players while teaching them some of their other notes, all in package that sounds exciting and fresh. A great opener or closer for your next concert!
In Motion is all about, well, motion! Your guitar players get to play a relentless pulse and melody while accompanied by your winds and percussion. Very achievable, and a great introduction to D major!
Lament For A Time Passed is an accessible yet dense ballad written as a tribute to the works of Frank Erickson. It invokes feelings of nostalgia, loss, and regret, and gives your students a chance to create complex emotions with simple materials. A great addition to your next concert!
Once upon a time there was a little girl who had trouble falling asleep at night. One day she received a stuffed, very fat baby penguin as a gift. Little did she know that this baby penguin was a little despot who idolized Napoleon. He wished to raise an army to defend the bed and the little girl from scary thoughts of all kinds. One by one the other stuffed penguins in her bed were recruited and given ranks, titles, jobs, and even pensions. The next year on her birthday, the penguins dressed in their finery and trumpeting the songs of their people, marched in her honor and declared the little girl their president. This is the music they played in their penguin parade in honor of their favorite person and for the glory of Penglandia (aka the bed they all lived in).
March for the Penguin Military was written in honor of the stuffed animals that helped the composer calm her bedtime anxiety as a child and to tell some of the stories that played in her head as she drifted off to sleep. It designed was an entry point for developing bands to experience a full Sousa style march in an accessible range.
Finally, 6/8 in grade 1! My First Adventure is your students’ first adventure into 6/8! Safe ranges and orchestration (and a euphonium solo!) and a bouncy tune give your students a great way to learn 6/8 in their first or second year of playing!
Give your beginning or second year bass clarinetists and baritone saxophone players a chance to shine! Snakes In The Hallway is a duet for those two instruments and your band as they chase each other in B flat minor. Everything is very playable in the duet and accompaniment parts, and it’s a great opportunity for instruments that aren’t always featured to take the lead.
Spit & Polish is a great grade 2 march by David Yamamoto! It celebrates graduation from military basic training, honoring the American services tradition with a piece that student musicians completing the school year from their own basic training (beginning or intermediate band) can navigate with pride. Along the way there are great teaching opportunities about marches, including form, key change, and an easy introduction to cut time
The Call Of The Open Sky, by Bryan J. Lackey, is an exciting grade 2 fanfare that evokes imagery of an endless frontier and adventure. It heavily features the french horn section, flutes, and percussion, and is a great opener or closer to any concert!
Triumph Of The Giant is for your best beginning tuba player! This is a full solo with band accompaniment, all at grade 1! Give your tuba player a break from their 2 years of endless bass lines and footballs, and let them take the melody in front of your group!
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