Percussion Ensemble Sextets

The difficulty of this marching groove powerhouse stems from the use of hemiola throughout the piece and occasional mixed meter. The snare, timpani and tom parts are great for showcasing more advanced

When Miles Davis plays, people listen. From the album, Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, this arrangement delivers! Make your jazz fans happy, and perhaps get a few new ones! Smooth!

This piece is scored for six percussionists with push brooms! Add in the optional staging and choreography, and this will be the hit of your concert!

Put your mallet players in the spotlight with this popular classical theme!  This one really moves along, using dynamics and clean scoring to create a quick, light sound. The audience won't be able to

This arrangement of Coventry Carol, a traditional English carol based on a biblical play entitled The Pageant of the Shearman and Tailors, is a delicate and haunting treatment. Textures

A Dance On Three Legs is a percussion ensemble piece with constantly shifting meter, hence the title. It also has constantly changing texture and dynamics to add interest.  Six players

Daydreams features several memorable melodic lines and an overarching A-B-A structure that provides harmonic depth as well. The addition of active hand drum grooves makes for a complete musical

William Bolcom composed Graceful Ghost as one of three rags for piano in the early 1970's. Written in memory of his father, it is now considered his most famous work. In this adaptation for

Grade 3 percussionists will love playing this rhythmic ensemble piece. Each player is featured for a short solo as the music builds toward a humorous conclusion. Help this percussion ensemble find the

Written for mallet sextet, this arrangement is a chorale work which should be performed accordingly. Scored for bells, chimes, vibes, two four octave marimbas and one low five octave marimba, this medium

Lightbringers is a work written to feature a percussion duo in front of an ensemble and contains several virtuosic yet ensemble-friendly musical ideas and orchestrations. It is a very lighthearted

The Line Around Us is a sextet that explores an extreme membranophone range, accented by the use of cymbals. The work helps performers strengthen ensemble awareness, work on polyrhythmic figures,

A Little Tango is a fun, rhythmic percussion ensemble that creates a lot of fun music with a limited instrumentation. Full of Spanish flair and style, this tango is entertaining for students and

Nickel for Your Thoughts is a intermediate level piece for percussion sextet. Comprised of unpitched instruments that can be found in almost any band room, it begins with a methodical 5/4, which

Veteran composer Jason Baker has a passion for 18th- and 19th-century American fife and drum music that is well represented in Old Tyme Muster. Inspired by medleys of tunes that are often performed