Percussion Ensemble Music for the Secondary Classroom

An exciting bluesy piece that will be a blast for an advanced percussion ensemble to perform. This piece features exciting moments that vary from fast-paced ensemble sections to reduced grooves in the style

Face off against the strongest opponent - dramatically inspired by the final levels of older video games, this piece is great for developing players to portray action and excitement!

Building from a rhythmic ostinato, this triumphant anthem arrangement soars with energy and grandeur on the DIADEMATA hymn tune. Cleverly interweaving Beethoven's HYMN TO JOY, in addition to the powerful

This exciting piece for younger performers incorporates a variety of interlocking grooves and fun coordination challenges. Each performer carries several responsibilities by playing more than one

This fast-paced percussion ensemble piece features two timpanists supported by six percussionists. The timpanists share a single set of four drums split into sets of two. Orchestrated this way, the players

A two-movement quartet based on the idea that each player must have a perfectly matched sense of time, touch, and rhythmic interpretation. The title is derived from the idea that players will need to share

This useful collection contains 27 newly arranged trios written at Grades 1.5 to 3. Designed to be used with any combination of three wind instruments with or without percussion, the possible combinations

A bouncy, short and sweet interlude with an ear-pleasing melody harmonized between two mallet instruments and accompanied by simple battery percussion.

A unique opportunity for beginning to intermediate musicians to perform on nonstandard instruments such as plastic buckets, brooms, spray bottles used as shakers, and plastic trash cans. These items are

Brush Hour is Alex Stopa's homage to the great brush masters from the early twentieth century. In it, Stopa introduces some of the most common brush patterns and techniques used in a jazz setting.

Haut Metall Holz (haút me'tal holts) is an intermediate-level quintet for percussion. The title comes from the German words describing the three types of instruments used by each of the five

An exploration of rhythmic relationships within odd time meters, with a fusion of the harmonic languages of jazz and pop music. At its core, this piece is made up of an omnipresent, spiraling rhythmic five

As the title suggests, Tomfoolery is a piece that calls for three players with one tom each. It uses hocket rhythms between the players for the main thematic material in the opening and closing A

Blur is a med-advanced percussion ensemble piece, featuring a large sound palette and an exciting, driving rhythmic force. As the title suggests, the texture of the piece moves from thin and

Spiderweb Lead is a percussion quartet that brings together steel drum, marimba, vibraphone and a percussion accompaniment that can be played on drums of the performer’s choice such as

In the Hawaiian language, the word nalu stands for wave, in reference to those in the waters surrounding the islands of Hawaii. Through the use of counterpoint, syncopation, hocket, and hints

Vector is written for keyboard percussion and electronics. The keyboard percussion parts are of easy to intermediate difficulty, with most of the challenge coming from ensemble timing and

Scored for percussion quintet with optional offstage performers, Thundersnow is mysterious, mesmerizing, bold, but also extremely delicate at times, much like the storms themselves.

Dedicated to the composer's young daughter who is fascinated with everything in the night sky, StarDancer alternates between light-hearted, spinning dances and more raucous, foot-stomping

Written for five graduated sounds, this work can be performed on any five graduated items or instruments such as woodblocks, claves, cowbells, pots and pans, bottles, or anything really, as long as there

Also known as a double dream, a dream within a dream, or nested dream, false awakenings are usually vivid dreams in which you mistakenly feel like you’ve woken up, to only realize this too was a dream

Based around a simple, syncopated four-bar rhythm which is offset and layered on itself over and over, this piece attempts to make five percussionists sound like ten. Each player is responsible for at least

The title of this percussion quartet, Zeug, is a German word loosely translated into English as "stuff." The eclectic collection of instruments required suitably fits the category of typical