What an outstanding way to conclude your concert. James L. Hosay writes some of the most exciting music to be found in Concert Band literature and music doesn’t get much more exciting than this! While titled as a Grand Finale this concert band tour de force can be programmed in numerous ways. Consider it also as a roof-raising opener or even in the guise of an entr’acte as you return from intermission. You will find JOYFUL EXCLAMATIONS to be one of the most thrilling and uplifting arrangements available in band literature today. This is also a perfect vehicle through which to study music history.Indescribable!

Composed for Emma Halnan winner of The Arts Club - Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award 2016. The composer comments that for the first ten years of this century I lived and composed on the Gower Peninsula an area of sandy beaches and dramatic cliff scenery with coastal caves; the first area in the UK to be officially designated as one of outstanding natural beauty. Living in an old mill alongside the Bury Pill stream I wrote from a stable block enjoying a vista across Cheriton Valley and the river to Ryers Down. This work is a musical reflection of time spent there. Originally scored for Flute & Piano this publication comprises the Harp adaptationby Heather Wrighton. It doesn't include the Flute part as a single part. Flautists should purchase the Flute & Piano edition.

A Cycle of five Songs-Study Score - Hawkes Pocket Score 1225. Argento D

These 18 fun tunes for violin and piano are ideal for every party time and conjure up a variety of scenes to fire the young player's imagination. They are skilfully written for beginners with the shapes of tunes reinforcing basic fingering patterns and with simple matters gently presented. Many of the pieces are suited to ABRSM's Prep Test. The tunes in this compilation range from the simplest to about Grade 1 standard and many are ideal for the Board's Preparatory Test.

Have your Drummers been patiently (or impatiently) standing at the back of the band while you rehearsed this espressivo piece? Reward their equanimity with this fiery and percussive addition to Paul Curnow’s impressive and growing catalog of works for Concert Band. This enticing new composition lies well within the command of a solid Grade 2 band while bringing the smoldering energy of Latin music to your concert stage. Written as a celebration of cultural diversity and infused with easy syncopation and lots of interweaving rhythm there is certain to be a special place for FIESTA DE SAN PEDRO on your next concert and in cross-cultural teaching.Spicy hot!

Five pieces of progressive difficulty for 4-hands at one piano! It can be used in conjunction with the Second Album and Third Album books of the Modern Course For Beginners or as supplementary material for other methods. The Primo and Secondo are of similar difficulty so can be played by pupils of the same level who are encouraged to learn both parts.

As well as providing material which is enjoyable to play the student's musicality is developed by virtue of the fact that the pieces are genuine duos between the two instruments. The 'give and take' between trombone and piano necessitates careful listening and a sympathetic response from both performers.

Nine easy classical pieces arranged for Flute and Piano accompaniment by Harold Perry.

'Letter from Home was commissioned as a patriotic work in 1944 by Paul Whiteman and his Radio Hall of Fame Orchestra. Composed toward the end of the Second World War this music suggests the emotions of a soldier reading a letter from home. The music has been described as Copland's 'most sentimental' and reflects his own homesickness while visiting Mexico. This sensitive transcription by Brian Belski has produced another wonderful wind band setting from America's most iconic composer.” - Craig Kirchoff (Windependence Series Editor) Instrumentation: flute I flute II oboe clarinet I in Bb clarinet II in Bb clarinet III in Bb bass clarinet in Bb bassoon soprano saxophone in Bb alto saxophone in Eb tenor saxophone in Bb baritone saxophone in Eb trumpet in Bb I trumpet in Bb II trumpet in B

Giulio Caccini (ca. 1550 - 1618) also known as Giulio Romano was an Italian composer singer and lute player and is regarded as the founder of opera. Today Caccini’s music is receiving attention again being performed by world stars such as Andrea Bocelli and Inessa Galante. In this arrangement Ave Maria the solo part can be taken by several instruments or even a vocal soloist. The percussion of course is ad libitum.

SATB chorus

Play these Jazz classics including; Emily American Pie and Mack The Knife all arranged by Dave Wolpe.

Club Paradiso is a work by Sven Van Calster written in his well-known approachable style. He composed this work in the hotel of the same name during a holiday in Alanya Turkey. He paid special attention to an even distribution of the most enjoyable passages amongst all the parts of the orchestra and also took care of the necessary duplications so that most orchestras are able to play the piece.

Song Festival for Violin-Packed full of familiar children’s songs from different countries this book is great teaching material for children and can be used as first performance material. The CD makes practising fun and satisfying.

This splendid colourful concert work lets your band shine in every respect. The dreamlike beginning is followed by a dancing passage that grows increasingly impassioned and in which all groups have their turn in the spotlight. Afterwards the dramatic theme from the start returns to the fore with a splendid antiphon in the horns/euphoniums bringing the work to a grandiose close.

Grades 5-6-This collection of 12 pieces for oboe and piano was specifically commissioned by ABRSM to provide useful core material for its Oboe syllabus. The appealing variety of rhythms styles and moods and the progressive introduction of new technical accomplishments will provide invaluable repertoire-building material for teachers from Grades 5-6. A collection of pieces specifically commissioned by the Associated Board to provide useful core material for its oboe syllabus appealing variety of rhythms styles and moods and the progressive introduction of new technical accomplishments will provide invaluable repertoire-building material for teachers

Harpe - Ou Harpe Celtique- for harp (or celtic harp) solo

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Nunc Dimittis for 21 solo voices (7S 5A 4T 5B). Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Nunc Dimittis for 21 solo voices (7S 5A 4T 5B).

First published over seventy years ago this imaginative series of studies is as useful and relevant now as it ever has been. Each volume has studies composed by well known and lesser known composers and is carefully graded to offer a variety of keys time signatures textures and tempi. Nineteen studies selected by the ABRSM. Including works by Henri Bertini Cornelius Gurlitt and Felix Le Couppey.

4 Aandelige Sange for Mixed Choir (SATB) by Emil Hartmann . Lyrics by Kingo and Grundtvig. 4 Aandelige Sange for Mixed Choir (SATB) by Emil Hartmann . Lyrics by Kingo and Grundtvig.