Ensembles

Duractiona: ca. 5 1/2 minutes

Windependence - Advanced Apprentice Level (Grade 3) Sinfonia XIX was commission by the Berwick Middle School 7th-8th Grade Band, Brian Fish, Director, and was composed during December 1998 and January...

This striking orchestration of the Northern Irish melody that underlies the song Danny Boy offers intermediate bands an opportunity to explore the tune's soaring beauty through colorful phrasing and r...

Windependence - Master Level (Grade 4) Dvorák did not rely on actual folk melodies for his Slavic Dances, but rather used their spirit and style as inspiration. Slavonic Dance No. 7, Op. 72 is based o...

Score and Parts Windependence - Master Level (Grade 4) Many traditional rhythms of the Santeria religion are incorporated in this piece. Although tocata is the word used in Spanish for fanfare, it is...

Windependence - Artist Level (Grade 5) As Brooks composed this piece, he kept in mind the different definitions of the word, Dreadnought: a total absence of fear ' invincible ' a name given to a class...

An American Song ist eine Kollage die nach dem Motto 'e pluribus unum' die Musik der USA portraitiert, indem viele verschiedene Stilrichtungen in einem einzigen Werk zusammengeführt werden. Teile von...

Windependence - Artist Level (Grade 5) Sparkle is a rhythmic, celebratory work, about four minutes long. Most sections are lightly scored and focus on a single group of instruments. Gradually, these s...

In the Machine ist eine musikalische Reise innerhalb einer Maschnie. Im ¾-Takt geschrieben, beginnt das Stück zunächst nur mit dem Schlagwerk und einigen in die Instrumente hineingesprochenen Laute. I...

Windependence - Artist Level (Grade 5) This evocative piece features piano in an engaging alternation of quiet stasis and whirling energy. Vortex creates an aural landscape of opposites: a tornado gai...

Windependence - Apprentice, Advanced (Grade 3) Originating more than 400 years ago, Paloyoloyo is an extract from the Birdsong cycle of the Cahuilla tribe from the Mojave and Sonoran Desert regions of...

Der renomierte Orchester- und Chorkomponist Ned Rorem schaffte sein Blasorchester-Debut mit diesem Arrangemont des zweiten Satzes seiner dritten Sinfonie, die er 1957-58 geschrieben hat. Herausgegeben...