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Originally written for the composer’s very musical daughter, who inspired this light-hearted Ragtime piece, written with the needs of middle school string students in mind. It’s a fun tune that offers a lot of teaching opportunities, including roadmap, C#s, spiccatto, and moving across the common string keys. A great addition to your next concert!
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!
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!
Reflessione Dolce translates from Italian as “Sweet Reflections”. It is the imaginings of past loves lost, and the times that made them such sweet memories. This wonderful ballad is written to take advantage of a particularly good middle school cello and violin section, and designed to develop fluidity and sensitivity as well as demonstrative, romantic phrase shaping. A great addition for your next concert.
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
Tango Jose Moises is an unusual duet inspired by a pair of good friends from the composer’s school who had both won lead seats in the Norwalk-La Mirada (California) District Middle School Honor Band: Jose on tuba and Moises on clarinet. This humorous tango was written so they could publicly celebrate their achievement and display their skills at their final middle school concert
This piece is also available as a Saxophone Duet with either an Alto or Tenor paired with a Baritone Sax, also published by Robot Quill Revolution Publishing.
Tango Jose Moises is an unusual duet inspired by a pair of good friends from the composer’s school who had both won lead seats in the Norwalk-La Mirada (California) District Middle School Honor Band: Jose on tuba and Moises on clarinet. This humorous tango was written so they could publicly celebrate their achievement and display their skills at their final middle school concert This version presents the tango for your saxophones, working equally well with an alto or tenor saxophone paired with a baritone saxophone.
This piece is also available in its original form as a duet for clarinet and tuba, also published by Robot Quill Revolution Publishing.
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!
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