All hands on deck! Building on the success of the Sea Shanty Trios book, these 21 quartets for any combination of wind and percussion instruments expand the range, instrumentation, and length of
These newly arranged quartets written at Grades 1.5 to 3 are designed to be used with any combination of four instruments - the possible combinations are endless! Play these quartets as traditional
Quartets that Travel is a collection of 13 short quartets for small auxiliary percussion, perfect for performances where large equipment is not ideal, transitions between set changes, or for
No equipment? No problem! Floor Play uses no traditional instrumentation and requires only body percussion including foot stomps, thigh slaps, handclaps, and finger snaps. With a fun, interactive
A light and airy piece for mallet quartet. The introduction is dream-like in a four feel. The body of the piece is a playful waltz. It ends the way it starts and drifts off to a satisfying final unison. A
Taking its aesthetic cue from Taiko and Kyoto-style drumming by using floating arm motions, Taiko a la Tom-Tom features four percussionists, each with a single tom. The musical material
In Guac is Extra, John Herndon has done a fantastic job of providing an engaging piece for young percussionists to dialog with traditional Latin percussion instruments without their needing
From the Inside Out was written for the students at Gurrie Middle School in LaGrange, Illinois. The students continually begged for a body percussion piece, but my focus for them was developing
This action-packed programmatic work by John Willmarth depicts an attack from the mythical sea creature, the Kraken. Release the Kraken uses all the instruments found in a standard 5-piece drumset
This collection of ten easy percussion ensemble quartets and quintets will improve the ensemble skills of developing players. Each introduces a different genre of music that is accessible to new
Animals is a loosely programmatic suite for percussion quartet in three movements by Brian Slawson. In Small, Medium, and Large, each player is assigned a specific animal name to help define their
Villanesca is part of Don Larsen's Danzas Espanolas. These are arrangements of pieces composed by Enrique Granados between 1892 and 1900. They are among his earliest
Seeing the World was written to be an accessible yet musically rich intermediate-level marimba quartet. Four players share two 4.3 octave marimbas, allowing the piece to be performed by those with
Allegro Fantastica is a very nice concert piece for percussionists at the medium-easy level. The piece is scored for four players on standard concert instruments.
This is not your average day at the office! Computer keyboards, coffee mugs, newspapers, paper clip boxes, receptionist bells and a P.A. system make up the instruments for this highly entertaining novelty
This work is intended to be a beneficial piece for the young percussion ensemble. If certain instruments are not available, suitable substitutes may be used. It is desirable to perform all four pieces in