Music Works Grade 2

Scritto interamente in 4/4 e utilizzando un unico tempo per tutta la durata, Richard ha creato un'opera meravigliosa per i giovani esecutori che presenta un ritmo logico e una varietà insieme a un acu...

Written entirely in 4/4 and using a single tempo throughout, Richard has created a marvelous work for young players that features logical pacing and variety along with a keen sense of rhythmic momentu...

Scritto interamente in 4/4 e utilizzando un unico tempo per tutta la durata, Richard ha creato un'opera meravigliosa per i giovani esecutori che presenta un ritmo logico e una varietà insieme a un acu...

From the Puccini opera Gianni Schicchi, this is one of the most beautiful and recognisable melodies in all of classical music. Providing a marvelous opportunity for lyric style playing, Johnnie Vinson...

Richard has arranged three distinctively different carols from the Celtic folk tradition and combined them into a stunning medley for concert band. Includes: Deck the Hall, Love Came Down at Christmas...

This majestic work by Richard Saucedo uses mixed meters alternating between 4/4 and 3/4 to achieve a truly unique-sounding fanfare. There is a nice balance between bold brass statements and answering...

Grade 2 Characteristic of Richard's distinctive style, this impressive piece features a rhythmic vitality throughout, along with fresh harmonies and skilled orchestrational devices. Amid the powerful...

These brief yet powerful fanfares will serve a variety of functions for concert programming. Written with moderate and stately tempos, these fanfares are easy to learn but provide a grand and impressi...

These brief yet powerful fanfares will serve a variety of functions for concert programming. Written with moderate and stately tempos, these fanfares are easy to learn but provide a grand and impressi...

With an energetic percussion score and explosive style, this work is a perfect concert opener for young players. Careful use of mixed meters plus repetitive rhythmic figures help to give this a distin...

With an energetic percussion score and explosive style, this work is a perfect concert opener for young players. Careful use of mixed meters plus repetitive rhythmic figures help to give this a distin...

Ecco una composizione speciale che ha uno scopo molto particolare per i programmi di giovani bande: l'opportunità di presentare un solista di pianoforte con una banda da concerto. La parte pianistica...

Ecco una composizione speciale che ha uno scopo molto particolare per i programmi di giovani bande: l'opportunità di presentare un solista di pianoforte con una banda da concerto. La parte pianistica...

The centerpiece of this work for band is the memorable Appalachian folk hymn Down to the River to Pray, which was featured in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? Interspersed with this melody is...

Written entirely in one tempo, but with the meter alternating between 4/4 and 6/8 throughout, Richard Saucedo creates an ingenious effect of pulsating motion along with layers of textures and sounds....

Featuring distinctive sounds from the Renaissance period, here is an attractive suite of three dances skillfully scored for young bands. The stately Allemande uses full band passages alternating with...

We Meet Again is a regal overture for developing bands that evolves from a powerful fanfare into a fugue-like allegro section that builds to glorious ending. This concise concert opener will excite yo...

Paying tribute to the storied F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter (known to pilots as the 'Viper' and flown by the USAF Thunderbirds) this unique and fresh-sounding overture from Jay Bocook is characteri...

Commissioned by the Grassfield High School Band in Chesapeake, Virginia, and dedicated to the graduating class of 2011, the title and nature of this work reference the various pathways chosen, and tho...

John Barnes Chance composed his landmark work for band, Incantation and Dance, in 1960 while in residence at the high school in Greensboro, North Carolina. Commissioned by the Union County (NC) Honor...

This unusual work depicts the transformation of matter from solid to liquid and eventually to gas. A single theme appears dense and rigid in the opening, in the middle section lyrical and then in a tu...