You can’t get any closer to flying than riding the Zip Line! Great adventure as well as several teaching moments appear in this driving piece, including melody in upper and lower voices as well as active percussion lines. Enjoy taking a ride on the Zip Line…
Style: Concert Band
Composer: Joshua V. Hinkel
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
What’s fast and fun? ZIPLINE! This driving piece is bursting with energy while using mainly the pitches D, E, F#, G, A, and B (along with a simple-to-control, 1st-finger glissando technique). This exciting, beginning-level work will contrast with most other…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Bradd Parton
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
for Marimba, Digital Delay, and Sounds
Ziu means “blessed rain” in Japanese and can also be translated into “the rain that comes after the drought.”DOWNLOAD OPTIONAL BACKGROUND TRACKProgram NotesZIU was composed for Japanese percussionist Masayuki Nino’s…
Style: Solo Works
Composer: Daiki Kato
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
The ethereal and enchanting Zodiacal Cloud is a sparkling & groovy piece for solo glockenspiel. A “zodiacal cloud” is a large cloud of dust particles on the edge of our solar system. Sunlight reflects off the cloud, created the particles to scatter and…
Style: Solo Works
Composer: Jason DeCristofaro
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Now set for Flexible Instrumentation!
This creepy new work for developing bands is a perfect fit for your next Halloween concert. With plenty of opportunity for sonorous tutti playing and low brass independence, Jason’s unique harmonic style is great for…
Style: Concert Band, Flex Band
Composer: Jason Taurins
Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing
This creepy new work for developing bands is a perfect fit for your next Halloween concert. With plenty of opportunity for sonorous tutti playing and low brass independence, Jason’s unique harmonic style is great for teaching common accidentals. We know your…
Style: Concert Band
Composer: Jason Taurins
Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing
A knock on the door, a ring of the doorbell, a scream and the guttural call of the zombies for "Braaaains!". This piece uses a creepy minor key, dynamic contrasts, an ominous bass line and percussive effects to build a scary picture of zombies coming for a…
Style: Concert Band
Composer: Claire Petherick
Publisher: Brolga Music
Program NotesI. Sage Departed II. Future Tense III. Shadowy Way
Grade Level: 3 Copyright: 2004 Number of Players: 7+
Instrumentation
Percussion 1 (4.3-octave marimba, vibraphone) Percussion 2 (4.3-octavemarimba, crotales) Percussion 3 (vibraphone, bells, 4.5…
Style: Percussion
Composer: Jon Metzger
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
ZZZZing! embodies the thrill of fishing off the coast of Florida and Alabama in the Gulf of Mexico. The composition tells the tale of running out in a thirty-foot boat, waiting for the fish, the struggles of the catch, and the ride back home across the water.…
Style: Percussion
Composer: Till MacIvor Meyn
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Written for Bill Buchanan, one of the preeminent music teachers in Queensland, …and tears no bitterness is a tribute and celebration of a nurturer and a developer of talent. Bill would most often commence a concert with his band playing ‘Abide With Me’. After…
Style: Brass Band
Composer: Ralph Hultgren
Publisher: Brolga Music