Lowden - Grade 4 Birdland (Lowden) Concert Band Score/Parts

The group Steppenwolf took the rock world by storm with this hard-driving hit from 1968. Even today's students will have a blast with this nostalgia classic.

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A genuine discovery! Written at the same time as the Magic Flute this is Mozart’s final piece of chamber music. Anyone lacking a glass harmonica should try it with a piano or a harp (it has even been heard with a marimba!). It’s worth the effort and Henle’s scholarly-critical urtext material offers a 100% reliable musical text.? For glass harmonica (piano) flute oboe viola and cello.

Available early 2016

This gospel-flavored work is a setting of lyrics by famed Harlem Renaissance composer/poet James Rosamund Johnson depicting the power of music to change darkness to light and sadness to joy. A wonderful selection for combined choirs and festival performances!

Clarinet Sonata op. 107-Just as Johannes Brahms had done with his Opus 120 Reger also provided parts for two alternative solo instruments for his Sonata op. 107: I will also arrange the clarinet part for viola so that the work can also be played thus (letter to his publisher). He by no means wanted to leave the arrangement of the viola part to the publisher as slurs had to be changed here and there as well as octave transpositions had to be made - only I can do this work! The viola’s sonorous mid range comes close to that of the clarinet but lends the work its own timbre. Viola players will also value this Urtext edition on account of the practical fingerings and bowing marks.?Just as Johannes Brahms had done with his Opus 120 Reger also provided parts for two alternative solo instruments for his Sonata op. 107: 'I will also arrange the clarinet part for viola so that the work can also be played thus'(letter to his publisher). He by no means wanted to leave the arrangement of the viola part to the publisher as slurs had to be changed here and there as well as octave transpositions had to be made - 'only I can do this work!'The viola’s sonorous mid range comes close to that of the clarinet but lends the work its own timbre. Viola players will also value this Urtext edition on account of the practical fingerings and bowing marks.

The nightingale has long been associated with melodic musical writing and romantic texts. The tenderness of the text is displayed in this choral setting that includes a delicate piano accompaniment and optional flute. Carefully placed dynamics help create the mood and feel of this well-written piece and makes a beautiful selection for women as well as young treble singers.

Crosspicking is a stunning and beautiful guitar technique played with a flatpick. It has a unique sound that in some ways mimics a three-finger guitar or five-string banjo roll yet is completely different from either. Old-Time Gospel Crosspicking Guitar Solos aimed at intermediate guitar players includes 30 of the most popular and best loved traditional Gospel Songs. These solos will make a delightful contribution to any guitarist’s repertoire. Chords melodies (in tablature and standard notation) and lyrics are presented as well as extensive instruction in the crosspicking style. Recordings of every song at both slow and regular speeds are included in the accompanyingaudio. Crosspicking is a stunning and beautiful guitar technique played with a flatpick. It has a unique sound that in some ways mimics a three-finger guitar or five-string banjo roll yet is completely different from either. 'Old-TimeGospel Crosspicking Guitar Solos ' aimed at intermediate guitar players includes 30 of the most popular and best loved traditional Gospel Songs. These solos will make a delightful contribution to any guitarist’s repertoire.Chords melodies (in tablature and standard notation) and lyrics are presented as well as extensive instruction in the crosspicking style. Recordings of every song at both slow and regular speeds are included in the accompanyingaudio.

Here is a clever play on the famous alphabet song with two delightful vocal parts and teasing references to the traditional tune. An excellent teaching piece from the Houston Children's Chorus series.

“ His present pieces must convince both connoisseurs and others alike of the unbiased opinion that Beethoven will in time become one of the greatest composers in Europe ” thus wrote Joseph Haydn when informing the Electorin Bonn on the progress of his pupil in 1793. However the elector replied that he was already familiar with parts of the Parthia op. 103 that had been sent as evidence of the composer’s progress. Beethoven had apparentlyonly reworked an earlier composition. Nevertheless we must agree with Haydn: The Parthia and the Rondo WoO 25 that was originally intended as the final movement provide wonderful evidence of Beethoven ’s great skill. This Henle Urtext edition also contains additional parts for Horns in F.

BERLIN IRVING FROM RAGS TO RITZ MEDLEY (SNYDER/MURTHA) 2 PART CHORAL Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Irving Berlin 's classic 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' with this From Rags To Ritz medley of four of his all-time greatest hits arranged for choir band and strings! A fantastic closer or festival feature it includes: Alexander's Ragtime Band Blue Skies Play A Simple Melody and Puttin' On The Ritz . This fantastic medley is arranged for 2-Part Choir by Audrey Snyder and Paul Murtha.

Play 22 holiday favorites using G C D and Em chords: Angels We Have Heard on High · Deck the Hall · Feliz Navidad · Good King Wenceslas · Hark! the Herald Angels Sing · A Holly Jolly Christmas · I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day · Jolly Old St. Nicholas · Mistletoe · Nuttin' for Christmas · O Come O Come Emmanuel · Still Still Still · Up on the Housetop · and many more. Includes chord charts and melody line. Play 22 holiday favorites using G C D and Em chords: 'Angels We Have Heard on High' 'Deck the Hall' 'Feliz Navidad' 'Good King Wenceslas' 'Hark! the Herald Angels Sing' 'A Holly Jolly Christmas' 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' 'Jolly Old St. Nicholas' 'Mistletoe' 'Nuttin' for Christmas' 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' 'Still Still Still' 'Up on the Housetop' and many more. Includes chord charts and melody line.

Mark Nevin 's Buzzing Bee for solo Piano.

Zdenek Fibich's Poeme Op.41 No.6 is an extract taken from Un Soir D'Ete and has been beautifully arranged for Solo Piano by Hans-Gunter Heumann. This is a slow and expressive piece which is most enjoyable to play.

Aaron Copland's talents also crossed into the film world with this score for the 1948 movie based on John Steinbeck's novel. Copland's gift of creating a fresh uniquely American sound for orchestra is again a distinct part ofthis musical score. Film excerpts included in this edition are Morning on the Ranch Dream March Walk to the Bunkhouse and Happy Ending . (4:35)(Parts). Copland A

From Schubert's familiar Deutsche Messe this song has been adapted for beginning string players in a solid ensemble setting.

Every known source has been examined to produce an urtext edition complete with preface and editorial notes to explain the work’s complex source situation. No audition candidates who want to flaunt their knowledge of the historical sources as well as their brilliant technique can afford to miss this volume!? An Urtext edition of Carl Stamitz's Viola Concerto No.1 In D arranged here with Piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit with cadenzas and lead-ins by Robert D. Levin and edited by Norbert Gertsch and Annemarie Weibezahn.Fingering and bowing by Jurgen Weber.

12 pieces from Christmas and A Fresh Aire Christmas for instrumentalists. Books includes piano accompaniment. 12 pieces from Christmas and A Fresh Aire Christmas for instrumentalists. Books includes piano accompaniment.

When Karl King was conducting circus bands he would frequently edit his marches so the same composition could be used for contrasting acts (for example a lion act one time and a trapeze act the next). In the same spirit Thomas Leslie has creatively repurposed this familiar march to suit an imaginary clown act; complete with novelty percussion sounds and a few surprises sprinkled in. A bit outrageous but definitely fun! Dur: c. 2:20