Mike Hannickel

These lovely settings of three Polish Christmas carols include good opportunities for teaching style and musicality as you prepare for your winter performance. While “Three Polish Carols”...

Here's a memorable and humorous contrast for your winter concert. A gregarious student or staff member in the guise of “Beethoven returned” suddenly appears on your concert stage in this c...

Band directors work hard to build balanced ensembles, but it's often a challenge to keep the trombone section strong. Trombone players carry one of the larger instruments back and forth to school and...

Band directors work hard to build balanced ensembles, but it's often a challenge to keep the trombone section strong. Trombone players carry one of the larger instruments back and forth to school and...

Mike Hannickel, an educator and young band specialist, contributes INTERVAL BUILDERS For DEVELOPING BANDS. While groups at every level will find these important 'playable music theory lessons' excelle...

This addition to the Curnow Music Press GREAT FOUNDATIONS SERIES of pre-Grade 1 publications is accessible to young musicians who have been playing for just a few weeks. A simple, repetitive theme wit...

Every conductor knows the importance of using excellent teaching materials to aid in the development of all aspects of musical growth. The quality of the band's performance must be continually improvi...

It's time for those sassy, brass trumpets to step to the front and make sure everyone knows they are there.

Auf in den Süden! Aber nicht etwa in warme Gefilde, sondern in den äussersten Süden, in die Antarktis, zur heiteren Pinguin-Promenade führt dieses Stück! Es hält, was der amüsante Titel verspricht: Mi...

Warum den weihnachtlichen Auftritt Ihres Jugendorchesters nicht mit einem Schuss Komik aufpeppen? The Christmas Present, in dem Mike Hannickel Fragmente aus den Weihnachtsliedern The Twelve Days of Ch...

Dies ist die ideale Gelegenheit, Ihrem Jugendorchester einige große klassische Melodien vorzustellen. In dieser kreativen Bearbeitung sind die drei Epochen Barock, Klassik und Romantik in leicht zugän...

Ein heiteres, komödiantisches Stück, das leicht einzustudieren ist: Präsentieren Sie jemanden - gerne auch einen Nicht-Musiker - dem verdutzten Publikum als den 'Triangel-Solisten' vor. Was nun folgt,...

This easy-to-prepare beginning band comedy piece will have the audience rolling in the aisles. Feature that popular principal, custodian, secretary or any other staff or community member who has a lit...

Two melodies in the Scottish style meet head-on in this energetic new arrangement. Your students will love the 'bagpipe sound' and rhythmic color of the Scottish 'snap'. This arrangement can also be u...

History! Introduce a bit of good old early-Americana to your audiences this year. GEORGE WASHINGTON SUITE is made up of three tunes known to have been composed for (or about) George and Martha Washing...

Commissioned by the bands from Tecumseh Middle School and Sunnyside Middle School, Lafayette, Indiana, directed by Jeffrey T. Parthun, Sr. and Ned H. Boyd. Modal harmonies evoke images of America as f...

Ein einfaches, spritziges Stück, mit dem das Klarinettenregister Ihres Blasorchesters mit Leichtigkeit in jedem Sinne glänzen kann! Mit diesem Stück können sich die Klarinetten wunderbar in Phrasierun...

Was wäre, wenn Tschaikowski, von einer schlecht organisierten Reise zurückgekehrt, alle Noten seiner Nussknacker-Suite vollkommen durcheinander vorgefunden hätte und das kurz vor der Premiere? Seltsam...

Now all your students can be stars! They will learn to play Popcorn Prelude quickly and easily. Then just add a bit of simple stand up, sit down staging and voila - it's popcorn!

Now all your students can be stars! They will learn to play Popcorn Prelude quickly and easily. Then just add a bit of simple stand up, sit down staging and voila - it's popcorn!