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You can't lose when you get your administrators or other staff members involved in your performance. “Teachers from Outer Space” is a hilarious comedy skit for band that lets three or more...

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.

Als sich die kleine Miss Muffet zum Tee niederliess, konnte sie nicht ahnen, dass sie bald Gesellschaft von einer Spinne bekommen würde, sonst hätte sie sicher für sie mit gedeckt... Mike Hannickel ve...

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...

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!

Here's a unique way to add some fun to your program. Staged with a featured player, this piece unfolds with numerous missed opportunities for the triangle soloist (maybe a local celebrity, like the pr...

Here's a unique way to add some fun to your program. Staged with a featured player, this piece unfolds with numerous missed opportunities for the triangle soloist (maybe a local celebrity, like the pr...

Here's a unique way to add some fun to your program. Staged with a featured player, this piece unfolds with numerous missed opportunities for the triangle soloist (maybe a local celebrity, like the pr...

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!

A collection of 32 fun-to-play familiar melodies for the beginning instrumentalist from all the classical eras. Features: Funeral March (Chopin) / Humming Song (Schumann) / Largo (Dvorak) / Musette (J...

A collection of 32 fun-to-play familiar melodies for the beginning instrumentalist from all the classical eras. Features: Funeral March (Chopin) - Humming Song (Schumann) - Largo (Dvorak) - Musette (J...

A collection of 32 fun-to-play familiar melodies for the beginning instrumentalist from all the classical eras. Features: Funeral March (Chopin) - Humming Song (Schumann) - Largo (Dvorak) - Musette (J...