Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.923869 Composed by Traditional Christmas. Arranged by Kevin A. Worley. Christmas. Score and parts. 50 pages. Kevin Worley #3436521. Published by Kevin Worley (A0.923869). 1-God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (2:10).  2-Away in a Manger (2:00).  3-Angels We Have Heard on High (2:20).  4-Deck the Halls (2:10).  One of my favorite music school memories is, at Christmas Time, the percussion ensemble loading up the university truck and heading to the local shopping center to play Christmas carols for the shoppers.  The arrangements we played were rarely meant for percussion ensemble, so it was often a challenging and interesting experience.  With that in mind, I arranged these four carols with the same instrumentation and similar percussion toy sets to help smooth things.  1 Glockenspiel, 1 Vibraphone, 1 Marimba, 1 trap kit.  Arrangements and parts vary from beginner to early intermediate. 

Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.891147 By Ben E. King. By Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. Arranged by Shelly Davis. 20th Century,Contemporary,Film/TV,Pop,Rock. Score and parts. 8 pages. Shelly Davis #4354845. Published by Shelly Davis (A0.891147). Older elementary students will have a blast playing this 50's smooth rock tune on their favorite percussion instrument, Boomwhackers. Arranged in three parts: Melody, Harmony, and Bass, this song is sure to be a favorite among your students and an audience pleaser at your concert.Each part is written within the C4-C5 octave range (Middle C to Treble C on the Treble Staff). Tricky rhythm patterns are easily taught by rote and auditory recognition.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.730494 Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. Contemporary,Musical/Show. Score and parts. 326 pages. James Nathaniel Holland #4800780. Published by James Nathaniel Holland (A0.730494). Advisory: Ballet story contains adult situation and themes. Not suitable for audiences or performers under the age of 18.  INDIVIDUAL INSTRUMENT PARTS 2 (Strings, Harp, Timpani and Percussion). Piano Score, Full Orchestral Score, Individual Parts (Part 1) Sold Separately. American composer, James Nathaniel Holland, brings a ballet adapted from the first century Roman novel by Gaius Petronius (cir. 50 A.D.) to the stage. An entertaining ballet for adults (not suitable for general audiences under the age of 18), celebrating the male ballet dancer's physique and a laugh at our own human sexuality. The comedy is a romp of three gay protagonists and their adventures and misadventure in ancient Rome and their characters; an ex-gladiator, Enclopius, his young lover, Giton, and an upper class snob, Ascyltos. It should also be said that this ballet is not pure gratuitous vulgarity, there is a interweaving story containing a deeper message of real human relationships, the satire of ancient Roman archetypes, and a humorous glimpse into ancient Roman life that still rings true even 2,000 plus years later. Regardless of the subject matter, Holland's original music is fantastic tapestry of counterpoint, set in a sort of atonal-ism and heavy percussion, evoking a period of history no longer available to us. Although not all cues and counterpoint is contained here, this piano score is extremely useful for either a performance with 2 pianos and percussion and a dance company, a director's/choreographer's score, or a concise conductor's score, or rehearsal score. Measure numbers line up with the full score. An orchestral, performance CD is available for those company's on a budget.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.939390 Composed by Adam Grim. 20th Century,Concert,Standards. Score and parts. 50 pages. Adam B. Grim #6210963. Published by Adam B. Grim (A0.939390). The COVID Awakening is a marimba quartet for two 5.0 octave instruments. This piece is inspired by minimalism and minimalist compositional techniques combined with layering found in West African drumming, though it is not the only source of this specific technique. It was written during the beginning of the summer of 2020, when the Coronavirus, COVID-19, had started its grips on the United States in the forms of illness, death, and economic and emotional distress. This piece reflects on these early feelings of quarantines and sheltering in place, and using the techniques listed above the listeners are pulled in to listen between the notes. These reflections are found not in the music itself, but is different with every listen. The listeners’ ears will venture as they wish, and make this piece new with every performance, even though the notes and rhythms never change. Instrumentation: Two 5.0 octave marimbas, though only one marimba needs to be the full range. Marimba 1 can be a much smaller instrument if necessary. I’d suggest using rubber/latex mallets. Unless the performance is in a reasonably dry hall, this articulation and tone benefit does wonders for this piece. Each player needs only 2 mallets.