Mit Arranging For The Concert Band hat Frank Erickson in den 80er Jahren ein Instrumentationswerk geschaffen, das bis heute ein Standardlehrwerk geblieben ist. Mit der deutschen Übersetzung von Markus...
Dieses Werk ist für Zuhörer und Spieler gleichermaßen aufregend. Kühne Ausschmückungen der Klangfarben werden durch brillant fließende melodische Linien verstärkt. Ein Muss für das Wettbewerbs- oder K...
Eine vielfältige und zeitlose Sammlung von 66 berühmten Chorälen, arrangiert von Frank Erickson für Blasorchester. Die Choräle sind alle vierstimmig (SATB) arrangiert und können nicht nur von der gesa...
Arranged by Frank Erickson. This exceptional work holds a special place in concert band literature (grades 4-5). In a bright 6/8 tempo throughout, the wonderful vitality of Grainger's writing makes fo...
This invaluable collection features rhythm drills and etudes and applies them to six full band arrangements. Some of the unique features include: an emphasis on musical passages containing a wide vari...
What a great interplay of rhythms! History will remember this work as one of the most played concert and contest pieces of all time. The alternation of two rhythms, one syncopated and the other an aft...
This piece, one of hundreds of successful original concert band works by Frank Erickson, is a suite of three brief movements. The three movements investigate harmonic structuring, contrasting moods, a...
This work is thrilling for listeners and players alike. Bold flourishes of tone color are reinforced with brilliantly flowing melodic lines. A must for contest or concert repertoire.
The word 'peace has many connotations: 'a state of tranquility or quiet, freedom from war and harmony among neighbors', and more personally, 'freedom from disquieting thoughts and emotions'. This piec...
Several James Bond numbers have become classics in their own right. Frank Erickson features four of them: James Bond Theme - Live and Let Die - For Your Eyes Only - Goldfinger. Pair the music of James...
The melody, 'Wachet Auf' ('sleepers, Wake') was not composed by Bach, but was used by him in three of the seven movements of his Cantata No. 141. This arrangement features adaptations of the third and...
Tchaikovsky's musical progress was based upon impulse, rather than upon intellectual conviction. It was his sincere response to emotional impulse and the freedom with which he ranged over almost every...
The suite consists of five movements, four of which are included in this arrangement, omitting a short minute movement. Although the overture is somewhat abbreviated from the original, the other movem...
This arrangement is derived from the music in Act 2 with Hansel and Greta lost and lying down to sleep in the woods. The Prologue begins with the sandman sprinkling sand on to the children's eyes. Han...
Consisting of three separate suites, Water Music is undoubtedly the most famous and popular of all of Handel's instrumental works. This suite for band consists of six of the more popular movements. Th...
Grade 4-5.
Frank Erickson passed away before he could provide rehearsal suggestions for this piece. March with Fanfares was one of his final numbers.
Two Songs Without Words was composed in 1906 and was dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams and is similar in style to his two suites for band. The Country Song opens with the principal theme as an unacc...
This transcription for concert band captures all of the excitement and super-charged emotion of the original version. Its driving rhythms and repeating melodic motifs provide interesting parts for all...
A unique collection of technical studies and correlated music which provide an assortment of scale, rhythm, technical and articulation exercises and immediately applies them to 12 full band compositio...
A collection of technical studies designed for use with either full band or individual practice. The method is divided into eight units, each focusing on a major key and its relative minor key and inc...
Arranging for the Concert Band and the accompanying workbook are intended to introduce students to basic techniques of arranging for the concert band. Arranging can be divided into two separate proces...
If your band has difficulty going beyond the notes and getting to the passion of the music, this beautiful work will be an ideal resource for you. It is harmonic in style, yet its moving lines in all...
this, in addition to Balfe's heritage, could account for its Irish folk-song quality.
Mystique: 'a complex of attitudes developing around an idea and a special skill, essential in an activity'. The 'attitude' in this composition is that of the excitement, as well as the subtleties of p...
The work is simple in conception but full of the characteristics that have been trademarks of Erickson's compositions for band. It begins simply with the snare drum stating its simple cadence. This is...
Two Songs of Morning contains two beautifully contrasting melodies, scored to demonstrate the lush tonal capabilities of the concert band. The Gaelic Melody used in movement tow is the well-known 'Mor...
Composed or arranged by Frank Erickson, John Kinyon and John O'Reilly, this exciting collection includes 14 never-before-published selections correlated to specific pages in the Yamaha Band Student, B...
Following a gentle, lyric fanfare at the opening, each section begins in a quiet way, gradually growing toward maturity, and isn't thus true of life itself? It is also hoped that other inflections of...
Country Gardens is typical of Grainger's humor and literary style where as the Irish Tune from County Derry Grainger expresses his grateful acknowledgment to Miss J. Ross who has made a large collecti...
Although music can be sufficient unto itself, it also may conjure images and ideas of many kinds to the audience (as well as the composer). It is not difficult to imagine the restlessness, the flight,...
The Choral Fantasy varies from the Choral Prelude in that it is much freer in form and style. This number opens with a variation of the fanfare that has been traditionally inserted as an introduction...
