Concert Band Works
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Band Development Methods
Concert Winds Care and Feeding: 12 Weeks to a Better Band - This completely free resource was developed using classroom techniques that will grow your band’s ability to control tone, blend, intonation, rhythmic reading fluency, and mastery of all 12 major scales and arpeggios, Designed to be done one key per week, you can stretch this method to whatever pace your ensemble’s experience level and rehearsal time allows. Each unit, one per major key, contains scales, arpeggios, rhythmic reading, unison chorales, and harmonized chorales to help your students achieve mastery over their instrument’s complete range.
Younger Bands
Broncos Ride Again (Grade 2) - Scored just right for young and developing bands, this is fun, memorable, and most of all, playable. With contemporary Western themes and block scoring accompaniment, this work is sure to delight your audiences!
Ring True! (Grade 2) - This composition for young band utilizes a simple four-note motive throughout. The motive is developed through inversion, modal transposition, and retrograde. Your developing students will enjoy discovering the different uses of the motive and appreciate the joy of performing the piece. A wonderful tribute to the efforts and talents of young band students.
Intermediate-Advanced Bands
A Prayer for Courage (Grade 4) - Audiences and performers alike will be genuinely moved and encouraged by this heartfelt work that invokes a prayer for courage in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Prayer for Courage thoroughly explores an original hymn tune that is present throughout the ensemble. Attention to voice doublings paired with intelligent voicing will help your band sound as beautiful as the sentiment expressed in this hopeful composition.
Theme from “The Mandalorian” (Grade 4.5)- Ludwig Goransson (arr. Ward Miller) - This memorable earworm of a theme song is attached to one of the most celebrated TV shows of the modern era: The Mandalorian. With plenty of indications helping you recreate the original, including mallet suggestions and optional electronics for effect, your students will love performing this for audiences who'll recall this great music. Plenty of doubling and cued solos ensures that bands with more elastic instrumentation can perform this arrangement.
Pineville Celebration Fanfare (Grade 4) - Any concert will benefit when programmed with this exciting and well constructed opening work for concert band. Every member of your ensemble will experience just the right balance of challenge and interest, keeping them fully engaged and involved. Three motives are woven together in an inventive and compact fanfare that will make a strong opening statement.
“Song to the Moon” from Rusalka (Grade 4.5) by Antonin Dvorak (arr. Ward Miller) - This lovely aria from Dvorak’s opera Rusalka will remain with your performers and audiences long after they hear it. The rich and unexpected harmonies support an enchanting melody that finishes on a gentle conclusion.