Joseph Compello: spartiti facile

Intended for first-year bands, this march uses the first 6 notes in a creative way that enables young students to develop independent part playing. With a short percussion solo, this composition is ex...

A pun on the familiar phrase, “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,” this light piece written for first-year band students is obviously full of quarter notes and features the familiar call of a cuckoo bird as the...

For first-year band students, this work is based on the beastly, one-eyed mythological giant. Frightful and exciting, this composition allows ensembles to learn marcato articulation, accents, tempo co...

Vulcan, the ancient mythological god of fire, often portrayed holding a hammer over an anvil at a blacksmith’s hearth, is the inspiration for this concert work for young bands. Featuring any instrumen...

Written for first-year band students, this accessible and fun march will be a great contest or festival march choice. The development of tempo consistency, articulations, and the ability to count rest...

Written for first-year band students, this accessible and fun march will be a great contest or festival march choice. The development of tempo consistency, articulations, and the ability to count rest...

Instrumentation: Violin I, Violin II, Violin III (Viola TC), Viola, Cello, Bass, Chimes, Piano This modal piece has a dark, other worldly sound that students love to play. It's as if it is from the pa...

Joseph Compello's Great Plains Saga for the beginning string orchestra students depicts wide open spaces, rugged terrain, and covered wagons heading West through the American plains. Students will lov...

String teachers are always trying to encourage their students to play with more bow. Composer Joseph Compello gives very beginning students the chance to do just that in his piece, Arco-ology. There i...

Questo arrangiamento di Jolly Old Saint Nicholas è perfetto per il concerto invernale delle prime bande. Basato sulle prime 6 note della scala di Sib da concerto, la partitura garantisce a ogni strume...

6-Note Reindeer è un brano festoso pensato per gruppi molto giovani che hanno imparato le prime sei note e hanno familiarità con le note in ottavo. Basato sulla nota canzone natalizia Up on the Houset...

6-Note Reindeer è un brano festoso pensato per gruppi molto giovani che hanno imparato le prime sei note e hanno familiarità con le note in ottavo. Basato sulla nota canzone natalizia Up on the Houset...

Intended for first-year bands, this march uses the first 6 notes in a creative way that enables young students to develop independent part playing.  With a short percussion solo, this composition is e...