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A trip to Coconut Island is always enjoyable! Soft Latin rhythms, a relaxing tempo, and tutti rhythm figures combine to create the perfect vacation. Coconut Island introduces young musicians to Latin...

This little melody leaps up and down giving young musicians the opportunity to practice ascending and descending intervals up to a perfect fifth. Short diatonic scale patterns create contrast to all t...

You Really Got Me' was written by Ray Davies, and became The Kinks big break. It is a genuine rock classic, and one of the most distinctive and easily recognizable tunes from the 1960s. The tune's cat...

Tielman Susato was a renaisance composer, performed on most of the known wind instruments of his time, and one of the first publishers of music. The dance tune 'La Mourisque' was included in his colle...

This little march is very short, but includes many of the most characteristic elements from the march form: introduction, clearly delineated form, contrasting melody in the bass instruments, del segno...

Chi ha preso tutto il formaggio? Ci deve essere un topo in casa. Mi sembra di sentire le sue zampette correre in cucina. Forse dovremmo tendergli una trappola! Questo piccolo pezzo di musica da progra...

Chi non è affascinato dallo sfarzo di un corteo reale? Il motivo di marcia in quarti di nota conduce a una sezione centrale più tranquilla, in cui il sentimento ritmico si basa sulle mezze note. Quest...

I miei vicini di casa avevano un grande orologio a pendolo che ticchettava piuttosto forte. Io e mio fratello ci sedevamo e aspettavamo pazientemente che suonasse l'ora e che l'uccellino uscisse a dir...

'Miss Crow's Fabulous Orchestra' is taken from Hogne Moe's popular musical of the same name. Miss Crow is going to put on a show, and she does it by starting her own orchestra - and everybody can tak...

Esistono molte melodie chiamate "Springtime Melody". Questa melodia proviene da un vecchio frammento di canzone popolare noto come "stubb". La melodia di base viene estesa con un breve interludio. Que...

The song about Tom Dooley has been a part of American folk tradition since the 1860's, but became famous worldwide in 1958 when the Kingston Trio made a popular version that became wildly successful....

The melody known as 'A Ya Zain' (also 'Aya Zein' or 'Ayazein,') is most often credited as an Egyptian folk song. The tune is easily recognizable as having Arabic origins by its use of the double harmo...

Che aspetto hanno i troll in marcia? Questo brano può stimolare l'immaginazione dei giovani musicisti, in modo che possano immaginarlo da soli. È importante introdurre la tonalità minore ai musicisti...

Dubula è un canto popolare tradizionale sudafricano del popolo Xhosa. Contiene i ritmi trainanti, il movimento armonico parallelo e l'esuberanza caratteristica di molta musica popolare africana. Quest...

Think about those good days when you are full of energy and optimism. Those days when everything just falls into place. Happy Time is a piece about that! Here's hoping that you have a happy time playi...

All Debut pieces are arranged with consideration for the challenges that meet every ensemble of beginning musicians. The arrangements are constructed to function well for a variety of skill levels and...

ODE TO JOY (German: An die Freude) is a poem written by the german poet Friedrich Schiller. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote music to this poem, and the theme is also used in his Symphony no. 9. Ode to Joy...

It is not often that we get to play a really dramatic piece with a young band. The Dark Castle creates a solemn and regal atmosphere with its slow puls and stately percussion.

It is important for young bands to play in minor keys. Elvish Dance is not only a minor key piece suitable for young bands, it also has a hint of dorian and lydian modes to give it that real elvish fe...

This march uses simple diatonic patterns and call-and-response melody to create an accessible introduction to march style. The melody is also easy to whistle. Try performing the march by whistling the...

Rock the Streets is a march based on a dialog between the winds and percussion. The piece is build up on ostinato figures, something that makes mastery of the individual parts easier and faster. The f...

'Big Big World' is a ballad by Swedish pop artist Emilia Rydberg. The song won the Swedish Grammis, the prize for 'Song of the Year 1998', and the Swedish 'Rockbjörnen' prize. The song's simple and vu...

'Aura Lee - the Maid with Golden Hair' is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick (lyrics) and George R. Poulton (music). The tune is familiar to modern audiences fr...

One of the worlds most widely known melodies, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is based on a French melody (Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman) first published in 1761. The lyrics were first published in 1806, in a...

The song, known in Norway as 'Blåmann, Blåmann bukken min', is one of Norway's best known children's songs, and a clear case of art imitating life. The poem by A.O. Vinje was written in 1860, and is b...