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Arranged in the keys of concert F and Bb, this setting for developing bands is specifically designed to reinforce the clarinet technique of moving fluidly across the "break." The melody moves from 6/8 to

Make your middle school or high school band sound like a Hollywood studio orchestra! This high-octane thriller uses great harmonic tension, driving rhythms, and intense percussion to create a musical thrill

The northwest tip of Michigan's lower peninsula is home to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, encompassing a 35 mile stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou

A flexible rescoring of the fun, vibrant, colorful, and programmatic tribute to M.C. Escher (1898-1972), one of the world's most famous graphic artists, known for playing with architecture, perspective, and

A fun, vibrant, colorful, and programmatic tribute to M.C. Escher (1898-1972), one of the world's most famous graphic artists, known for playing with architecture, perspective, and impossible spaces. His

Noble Gases is a set of six short works for flexible quintet inspired by the six noble gases and their applications: helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and the

A setting of two traditional Irish folk songs: The Moorlough Shore recounts a young man's love for a girl who loves another, a sailor. She tells him she will wait seven years for her true love's

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Helios is the titan god and personification of the sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown. He dwelt in a golden palace in the River Oceanus at the far ends of

The latin 'horror vacui' (fear of empty spaces) or kenophobia (from the Greek for 'fear of the empty') is a concept that has been expressed in visual art as the filling of the entire surface of a space or a

Left of Boom is a military and intelligence agency term referring to the period of time leading up to an event, often the detonation of a bomb or the carrying out of an attack. As opposed to "right

Paying tribute to the history of Mackinac Island, Michigan, this three-movement suite can be performed complete or as separate movements: I. Fort Mackinac, military-style march; II. Arch

Ethereal and cinematic, this work weaves its way through aleatoric effects, dark chromatic harmonies, blazing woodwind passages, and grandiose impacts. A great outside-the-box piece, perfect for Halloween

A flexible arrangement of this lyrical work allows ensembles of six players or more to create a full, expressive realization of the piece. The work contains a melodic quote from Copland's... view details

This lyrical work contains a melodic quote from Copland's A Lincoln Portrait and stays within the diatonic key of B-flat. An accessible and dramatic work, it gives developing... view details

Designed to come together in a few rehearsals, this piece features a simplified bass line, mostly staying on the tonic. Get it? Skele-Tonic? Great if you've just moved players to tuba, bass clarinet, or

An homage to Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Edith Piaf, Ragtime, Dixieland, and every Hot Club on the planet.

Tuebor is a suite of folksongs from the State of Michigan scored wonderfully well for Concert Band. The suite is part of a long tradition of folksong settings going back to Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan

A unique work for concert band: performed "forward," the music represents Einstein's theory of general relativity; performed "backward," it elicits the subatomic dynamism of quantum mechanics. Finally, when

Commissioned by the Michigan School Band & Orchestra Association, District III, for the Oxford High School Wind Ensemble, Jim Gibbons, Director. Dedicated to the students ​lost on

I mis-read a neon sign. It was in a handwritten font, and I thought it said “WHYCLOPS” but it did not. It made me wonder, though, who or what is the WHYCLOPS? A one-eyed mythical creature,