Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.750841 Composed by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. Arranged by Brenndan Elliget MAGA 537. Patriotic. Score and parts. 49 pages. BJE Music #3872321. Published by BJE Music (A0.750841). Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to Blighty - a slang term for Britain.Fred Godfrey wrote the song with Bennett Scott and A.J. Mills after passing a music hall in Oxford where a show called Blighty was showing. He recounts: One of us suddenly said What an idea for a song! Four hours later it was all finished, and the whole country was singing it soon afterwards. I got - not very much.The chorus lyric Take me back to dear old Blighty/Put me on a train to London town was included in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. [Wikipedia}This arrangement is for Concert Band with optional Piano part (not on the score) and Vocal Lead Sheet.There are parts for Eb and F Horns, and parts for Trombones 1 and 2 in BC and TC.The MP3 was recorded with NotePerformer 3.Grade = 3 Duration = 2:30 mins

Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1294499 Composed by David Ahrens. 21st Century,Classical,Contest,Festival,Folk,Historic. 119 pages. Baseline Music Publishing #884874. Published by Baseline Music Publishing (A0.1294499). A setting of three classic American folk songs for Wind Band. Transport your audience back to the “Old West� as you cross the nation by covered wagon to join the California Gold Rush, move a herd of cattle over the plains to new grasing lands, and be a part of the adventure of early rail commerce.Price discounted on my website “Sweet Betsy from Pike� is a comic folk ballad chronicling the trials and successes of Betsy, a mid-19th century pioneer woman, as she migrates from (perhaps) Pike County, Missouri (or Illinois) to the California Gold Rush town of Placerville (known colloquially as ‘Hangtown’). The journey across the Wild West was full of hardship, peril, and loss This song battles the very real struggles with levity and humor. It was first published in 1858.“Git Along, Little Dogies� is a cowboy ballad, also known as “Whoopie Ti Yi Yo�. While likely older, the first mention of the song was in author Owen Wister’s 1893 journal. It was first published in 1910. “Dogies� is a reference to small or orphaned calves. The narrative of the song quotes a cowboy singing to the slow or stray dogies as they move along the cattle drive to Wyoming.“Rock Island Line� refers the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad company (established 1947) which soon after became the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. When construction of the railroad arrived at Rock Island in 1854, it became the first to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River. This folk song references an encounter between an operator of a toll gate and a train engineer who is let through without paying by lying about his payload. Once safely through, he yells back his confession as the train speeds onward. The earliest known version of the song was published in 1929.Grade 3.5 Performance time: 10:00.

Concert Band - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1183905 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Ernie E Biggs. Classical,Early Music,Historic,Patriotic,Traditional. Score and Parts. 45 pages. Ernie E Biggs #783598. Published by Ernie E Biggs (A0.1183905). ArirangArirang is a popular form of Korean folk song. Essentially a simple song, which consists of the refrain ‘Arirang, arirang, arariyo’ and two simple lines, which differ from region to region.  The simple musical composition invites improvisation, imitation and singing in unison,. It is estimated the total number of folk songs carrying the title ‘Arirang’ at some 3,600 variations belonging to about sixty versions. Freedom of expression and empathy are its hallmarks. Anyone can create new lyrics, adding to the song’s regional and cultural diversity. Arirang is universally sung and enjoyed by the Korean nation. North and South.  Arirang is playable by any Grade 3 band. Included is 8 1/2 x 11 and 8 1/2 x 14 score and all parts.Instrumentation is as follows:Flute 1, 2OboeBassoonClarinet in Bb 1, 2, 3Bass Clarinet in BbAlto SaxTenor SaxBaritone SaxTrumpet in Bb 1, 2, 3Horn in F 1, 2, 3, 4Trombone 1, 2Bass TromboneEuphoniumTubaPercussion 1Snare DrumPercussion 2Bass DrumPercussion 3Large GongTriangle    © 2022 -Biggs Boys Music Publisher-Spring Hill, Kansas, USA.

Concert Band - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1466034 Composed by Emma Louise Ashford. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. 20th Century,Classical,Praise & Worship,Religious. 47 pages. John Ivor Holland #1044637. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1466034). Emma Louise Ashford (27 March 1850 – 22 September 1930) was an American organist, composer, and music editor, writing over 600 compositions. From 1894 to 1930 she was an editor at Lorenz Publishing Company, and at its periodicals The Choir Leader and The Organist. Born in Newark, Delaware, the only child of English parents she received her first musical training at an early age from her father, James Hindle, who was a singing teacher. The family moved around somewhat, but her compositions soon became noticed whilst living in Nashville, where she was a sought-after organist for multiple churches alongside her husband, John Ashford, as choirmaster. 'At Sunset' comes from a collection of voluntaries for organ (or harmonium), circa 1920, now freshly arranged for concert band as part of an ongoing project to bring more music by women into the worldwide repertoire.