Editors' Choice
This classic piece of ragtime music is now cleverly scored for the keyboard percussion ensemble! Using two xylophone and three marimba parts, the arrangement displays the true style of the ragtime era and also challenges the performers musically throughout the piece. An optional string bass part will add even more excitement to the overall performance. Perfect for any concert setting, especially pops concerts.

Editors' Choice
This practical and versatile collection of familiar melodies will be suitable for just about any type of ensemble, including quartets, praise band, full band or orchestra, and brass band. The supportive keyboard, bass guitar, and drum accompaniment and optional descant parts will enhance the overall sound of the arrangement, but are not required for performance. Your group will be able to use this collection repeatedly in numerous ways. Contents include: Just a Closer Walk; Worship Medley; On To Victory (Onward Christian Soldiers); Reliance (How Firm a Foundation); Rejoice, the Lord is King; Glory Hallelujah (Patriotic Medley); Christ The Lord Is Risen Today; Come Ye Thankful People Come; Christmas Bells; and Polish Carol.

Basic Library
The energy core of any jazz ensemble or combo is the rhythm section! It radiates the groove, time and essence of the music. This outstanding and comprehensive series includes introductions, explanations and instructions on the essential elements of performance, such as style, performance tips, and genres required for the solid understanding of what is required of a successful member of this vital part of the jazz group. There is also a play-along piece at the end of each chapter for reinforcement and further development of appropriate skills. The seven genres covered in this excellent method for your rhythm section are: swing, bossa nova, rock, shuffle, samba, funk, and ballad. Additional topics include: volume -- or knowing when not to play; how to keep time as a rhythm section; and effective comping. Each student book includes reproducible pages and a compact disc. The optional DVD is included with the director's book and is also available separately. The CD offers examples of jazz grooves, complex rhythms, and accompaniment tracks for the play-along pieces. Demonstrations of the examples are effectively presented by a driving rhythm section on the DVD. The complete kit includes: the Training Kit plus Bass, Drums, Guitar, Piano and Supplemental Books with CDs. Each book is authored by a professional musician and teacher in the respective performance area. The entire jazz ensemble will reap huge rewards when the rhythm section plays as a cohesive unit and comprehends the elements of the chart being performed! Very highly recommended!

The U.Play.Plus Series provides solos, duets, trios, quartets, and larger ensembles with flexible instrumentation. Each book has a two-line score for every title. The top line (A) is the melody. The second line (B, C, or D) may be played as a duet with line A and is one of the four-part harmony lines. Adding instruments with B, C, and D lines will complete the harmony. Cue notes are included to fill in missing parts. Woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion may play together, with or without the rhythm section accompaniment (Piano/Guitar/Score book) or the CD. The CD includes a concert Bb tuning note and two tracks for each song. The first is a demonstration track, and the second is the rhythm section accompaniment (piano, guitar, electric bass, and drums). Titles include: Billie Jean; Blitzkrieg Bop; Don't Stop Believing; Eye of the Tiger; Hey! Baby!; Know Your Enemy; Let's Get Loud; Open Arms; (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction; Wizard Wheezes (from "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince") and You Raise Me Up.

Editors' Choice
When church music needs to be flexible to meet any performance situation, Sounds of Praise is there to meet those needs with fresh, new arrangements. These arrangements are wonderful options for feature numbers during any church or concert setting, and are a good length for preludes, postludes and offertories as well. They're playable as solos, with ensemble arrangements for two or more players. An accompaniment CD is included with each part book, and piano accompaniment is available in the score (sold separately) to give the soloist the most versatility and greatest value! Titles included: Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone); Day by Day; Great Is Thy Faithfulness; Here I Am to Worship; How Great Is Our God; In Christ Alone; My Tribute and Precious Lord, Take My Hand.

Basic Library
There simply could not be a more flexible series of ensemble books! You can put together a flute-tuba duet, oboe-French horn duet, or any other combination you wish, including standard combinations such as flute or clarinet duet. The contents of each book represent styles from Baroque through contemporary, and range in difficulty from very-easy to medium. The pages are laid out in an identical manner in each book so performers can quickly locate where they are in the music. Contents: March, Prokofiev; Allegro, Mozart; Dance, Kabalevsky; Andante And Allegro, Stoutamire; Bourree, Telemann; Miniature #5, Bartok; Allegro Scherzando, Haydn; Leaping, Kabalavsky; Ecossaise, Beethoven; A Farewell, Purcell; Song Of The North, Grieg; March Of The Tin Soldiers, Tschaikowsky; Allegretto, Corelli; The Mechanical Doll, Shostakovich; The Adventures Of Ivan, Khatchaturian; Bouree, Handel; Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liszt; Ballet Of The Chicks, Moussorgsky.

Scored with ultimate flexibility in mind, this collection of movie favorites is playable by any combination of three instruments or any number of instruments in ensemble. All books are in score format, with each line increasing in difficulty from very easy to medium grade levels. Available for woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion, these arrangements are perfect for any performance occasion! Titles include: As Time Goes By; Can't Fight the Moonlight; How the West Was Won (Main Title); If I Only Had a Brain; Nimbus 2000; You've Got a Friend in Me; Mamma Mia; Batman Theme; Cantina Band; Imperial March; James Bond Theme; Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love); You're the One That I Want and Raiders March.

For string instruments & percussion ensemble. First Edition. This score consists of textual instructions and an outline of music for the strings. The strings and percussion have their own separate paths to follow. Duration ca. 15'. Score, 6 p.

For 6 violins, viola, cello, bass & 2 percussionists. Printed from manuscript. In one movement. With brief performance notes in Ger. Dedicated to the Ensemble Resonanz. Score, 38 p.

Lazarof, Henri. Published by Merion Music, Bryn Mawr, PA. Copyright 1991. Serene, melodic writing for winds and strings com-plements the energetic percussion solo. Complex, peripatetic percussion part, to be played in 3 areas of the stage.