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Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 1.5
Sassafras Tea (Cajun Two-Step)
Composed in the style of a Cajun two-step, the simple melody is stated first by the trumpets with a zydeco-inspired accompaniment. An optional advanced trombone part is included with New Orleans style tailgate effects. A washboard and optional keyboard bass part will add to the festive, homegrown sound of a traditional Cajun band in this unique piece that is easy and fun to play! Dur: 2:15SKU: HL04003041 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 1
Satin Doll
Looking for an easy to play vocal piece? Here is an excellent vocal chart on a well known standard that is arranged at a much easier level by Terry White, with no individual solos, lots of full ensemble, a shout chorus and a modulation. And it’s all very easy to rehearse and perform! The vocal range is from F, first space to fourth line D, treble clef. Scored for 5 saxes, 6 brass and 4 rhythm, plus this arrangement will sound full with reduced instrumentation. With very accessible brass ranges and optional parts for flute, horn, tuba and baritone horn T.C., this is a classy chart all the way. (2:45)SKU: AL30620 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 4
Satin Doll
A great jazz song from the collaboration of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn! This arrangement is for vocal group (SATB or SSAA) with big band, and can be used with a vocal soloist as well. You’ll like the way the band backs the singers and even gets a chance to blow on its own. Don’t overlook this one!
SKU: ALWBJE9418 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 3
Save the Last Dance for Me
A very exciting chart to feature your vocalist on this popular standard with some great ensemble work for the band. It is arranged superbly as a bright rhumba in the key of B-flat, modulating to C with a vocal solo range of F below middle C to C third space (optional D).SKU: AL33374 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 3
Saving All My Love for You
Set here in a medium slow swing style, this bluesy version of Whitney Houston’s first ever number #1 chart hit will go together quickly and sound great. Featured are short solos for alto and trumpet, as well as melody opportunities for all sections.SKU: HL7011951 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 4
Saving All My Love for You
Here is a beautifully scored version of Whitney Houston’s popular ballad from 1985, her first recording to reach #1 on the pop charts. Mark passes the melody around to different sections, but the style is always smooth and silky! Includes solo for tenor sax.SKU: HL7011949 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 4
Sawdust City Celebration
Commissioned by the Oshkosh (nickname “Sawdust City”) Area Community Band for their 25th anniversary, Sawdust City Celebration presents varied and creative settings of early American folk tunes commonly heard during Wisconsin’s pioneer days. With styles ranging from dramatic and powerful to lighthearted and lyrical, this is a rich-sounding and impressive work for the concert stage. Dur: 5:50SKU: HL04003288 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 2
Sax to the Max
“Sax to the Max” is a medium swing showcase for the sax section. This Mike Lewis original is tasty, smooth, and lyrical, and will sound full even if performed with only four saxophone players (optional bari). There are no individual solos but plenty of soli sections. Optional parts are included.SKU: AL24842 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 3
Scarborough Fair
Using the traditional English folk song as a basis, Paul Murtha found a creative treatment as an uptempo jazz waltz! With a natural flowing groove, this swingin’ chart opens with a trio of alto, trumpet and trombone on the main theme. There’s great scoring for the entire ensemble, and solo space for the three featured players (with sample written solos).SKU: HL7013078 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 1
Scarborough Fair
This arrangement of Scarborough Fair looks at the famous tune in a traditional, slow rock style. It contains written solos for trumpet 1 and tenor 1, both with energetic backgrounds, and a modulation into the shout chorus. The trumpet 1 range is to written E top space. Enjoy! (2:53)SKU: AL41113 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 3
Scenes from The Nutcracker
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed the ballet The Nutcracker in 1891–1892. Based on Alexandre Dumas’ adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” Before the premiere, Tchaikovsky selected eight pieces from the ballet and created The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, which became an immediate success and contains some of the most recognizable and best-loved holiday music. “Scenes from The Nutcracker” contains four numbers from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a.SKU: AL32511 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 4
Scherzo: Cat and Mouse
The “cat and mouse chase” has been a part of folklore and popular culture since the time of pharaohs in ancient Egypt. Over the ages, the chase has served as a metaphor for the suspenseful and sometimes alternating relation between hunter and hunted. In the modern age, the story has been played out hundreds of times in popular animated cartoons, often accompanied by a musical score representing the energetic spirit of the chase with lively twists and turns, sudden surprises and tongue-in-cheek music. In this spirit of playfulness and suspense, Robert Spittal has created a marvelous work that is both entertaining and exhilarating. Dur: 6:30 (Grade 4)Recorded by the University of North Texas Wind Symphony – Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor
“This entertaining work effectively conveys the playfulness and suspense of the cat and mouse chase. Creatively scored in a driving 3/4 time with contrasting textures, rhythmic variety, brisk passages…and melodic and harmonic interest throughout.”–The Instrumentalist
SKU: HL48022568 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 1.5
School Detective
The ever-vigilant hall monitor, always on patrol for delinquents running amok, needs a secret assistant in tough times like this. That’s where the School Detective comes in! Navigate through winding chromatic passages set to groovy ostinati and drum fills.SKU: AL47266 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 1
Scirocco
“Scirocco” comes from the name given to a Mediterranean wind that originates as a dry and dusty breeze in the Sahara Desert, accumulates moisture and velocity as it crosses the Mediterranean Sea, and often reaches hurricane speeds. With an inspiration like that, you can be sure the energy level will be at a peak. The work has an elementary introduction to contemporary aleatoric notation that enhances the dynamic sparkle! (2:00)SKU: AL38302 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 1.5
Scorpion!
Featuring a relentless rhythmic drive and powerful-sounding themes, here is an effective and exciting piece for second-year players. Utilizing a single tempo and no syncopation, this is a great tool for teaching rhythmic security and ensemble balance. Dur: 2:10SKU: HL04003528 -
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Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 1
Scottish Ayre
Douglas E. Wagner has scored this traditional Scottish folk song, also known as Turn Ye to Me, for young band. The full, rich phrases combined with tasteful dynamic contrasts will ensure this is an arrangement that can be programmed again and again. A charming work.SKU: AL26730 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 3
Scramble
A rousing concert opener or closer, “Scramble” is intended to aurally depict two characteristics of its title—collecting things together in a disorderly way, and moving quickly with a sense of urgency. The theme and its harmonic structure are presented at the beginning, and its musical “parts” are imaginatively separated and combined in unique and haphazard combinations throughout the piece, all at a frantic pace. (2:05)SKU: AL37837 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 3
Screamers!
Musically depicting the death-defying thrills, the unparalleled pageantry, and the seemingly endless action of a circus, this high-energy medley presents four classic works, including “Entry of the Gladiators (Thunder and Blazes),” “The Circus Bee,” “Bombasto,” and “Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite.” Remaining true to the original, this brings the joy of the big top in all its historical context to your concert stage. This is a blazing opener or rousing closer for any concert program! (2:30)SKU: AL39536 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 0.5
Seafarer’s Hymn
Your students will love how mature they can sound on this seafaring journey! Seafarer’s Hymn gives the developing band a chance to shine while getting a great introduction to lyrical playing. Featuring brass and woodwind choirs, this piece gives everyone a chance to play the melody and also contains enough parts to keep the percussion section involved! (2:00)SKU: AL29455 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 5
Searching for Lost Dreams
“As I began this piece, it was as though I were entering a dream. The music was atmospheric, undefined, and somewhat disorienting. Gradually the material became more focused, but just in time to switch to a very different–though related–sound world, which became the second movement. The overall poignancy, varied sound worlds and dramatic shape of the music suggested the title.” ~Dana Wilson Dur: 8:00 (Recorded by the North Texas Wind Symphony, Jacqueline Townsend, conductor)SKU: HL48024108 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 5
Second Essay
Composed in 1942, Barber’s Second Essay is a masterwork of concentrated musical drama, with a richness of texture comprised of highly charged and succinctly organized musical modules. The opening theme has a definite American flavor, which is followed by a fugal section that evolves from simple tonal patterns to polytonality. After an intensely rhythmic third section, all elements are combined in a huge climax and coda that round off the work. Expertly transcribed for symphonic band by Dr. George Schneider, this is certain to find its place in the standard repertoire for mature ensembles. Dur: 11:00 (Grade 5)SKU: HL50483722 -
Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble Grade: 3
Second Line (Joe Avery Blues)
For the new Jazz For Young People Series, well-known educator and jazz artist Victor Goines arranged “Second Line” as a medium bright swing. Sometimes called “The Joe Avery Blues,” this tune dates back to the early New Orleans style and was recorded by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. For flexibility, solos are provided for the entire trumpet, saxophone, and trombone sections and can be performed as a section or individually. Includes all the usual optional parts. Correlated to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz for Young People Curriculum. (4:02)SKU: ALJEM05040 -
Concert Band, Concert Band Grade: 2
Seconds Out
In boxing, the term “seconds out” refers to the moment when coaches and trainers (or seconds) must be out of the ring, leaving the competitors alone to face the competition. In a similar vein, this composition provides a musical description of the challenges and triumphs of students as they transition from middle to high school, leaving their “seconds” (parents, mentors, etc.) behind to face life on their own terms. Featuring a strong sense of urgency throughout, Seconds Out is solidly written for inexperienced ensembles with plenty of tutti scoring, and interspersed with sections of contrasting dynamics and effective percussion writing. (Grade 2) Dur: 3:50SKU: HL04003345
