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.
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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!
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Overture For The Last Minute is a great introduction to overture style pieces and tempo changes. Originally written as for an ensemble late in its concert cycle, it’s filled with catchy melodies and harmonizations. A great choice for your beginning string orchestra!
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Inspired by the “Society Band” dance orchestras of early 20th Century America, Ragtime Ragtop (A Tin Lizzie Drive) depicts taking the old Model-T out for an afternoon drive. From cranking the motor to a chugging start, cruising down the backroads, and the final screeching halt, this novelty piece is sure to please audiences with the sound images of what Happy Motoring was like in the early days of the automobile. It utilizes new techniques for your strings, including col legno bouncing of the bow and screechy behind the bridge playing, along with a lot of fun percussion effects.
This piece is written in flex style; it will work with just strings and percussion, but is best as a full orchestra piece.
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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.
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This beautiful version of Silent Night will allow your superstar beginning violist to create something magical. Both solo and accompaniment are grade 1, making this version eminently playable by most first and second year groups.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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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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