Concert Band - Digital Download

SKU: A0.733019

Composed by John Stafford Smith. Arranged by John Philip Sousa. Contemporary. Score and parts. 39 pages. Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings #2347157. Published by Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings (A0.733019).

Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1166697

Composed by Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith. Arranged by John C Skillman. Patriotic,Traditional. Score and parts. 3 pages. John Curtis Music #767077. Published by John Curtis Music (A0.1166697).

This is a tabloid-sized score only. Full set with score and parts available separately.

#America #Stravinksy #drumroll
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Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1166693

Composed by Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith. Arranged by John C Skillman. Patriotic,Traditional. Score and parts. 29 pages. John Curtis Music #767074. Published by John Curtis Music (A0.1166693).

This arrangement is my preferred mix of the Stravinsky, Clayton, and DoD versions, with a touch more martial flavor.

Scored for fl.ob.4cl [1.2.3.BC].bsn.4sx[AATB] -- 4hn.3tpt.3tbn.euph.tba+ str. bass, timp, sd, field drm, bd, cr. cym.

#America #Stravinsky #drumroll #anthem 

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Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.723171

Composed by Hewitt, James. Arranged by Jacklich, Joel. Holiday,Patriotic,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 26 pages. Joel Jacklich #6222869. Published by Joel Jacklich (A0.723171).

In 1817, James Hewitt set Francis Scott Key's poem The Defence of Fort M'Henry (which we now better know as The Star Spangled Banner).  Hewitt's original song gained some local popularity; however, throughout most of the country, people began singing the poet's words to a popular drinking song then known to many Americans, English composer John Stafford Smith's To Anacreon in Heaven (originally written for a popular gentleman's club of amateur musicians in London, the Anacreontic Society).  Whereas John Stafford Smith's music was borrowed for the poem, Hewitt's music was especially composed for the poem.  I was asked by Mitch Sturman, the band director of the Wilson Junior High School Warrior Band in El Centro, California, to arrange the original piano music for his band to play at his annual spring Concert of Premieres where he presented new works he had commissioned for his band from well-known band composers, and arrangements of neglected works he felt were worthy of performance.  This was one of those neglected worthy pieces by an American composer for an American poem.  It is orchestrated for flute, oboe, clarinets 1-3, bass clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, bassoon, French horn, trumpets 1-2, baritone horn, trombone, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, and glockenspiel. .

Concert Band - Digital Download

SKU: A0.733036

Composed by John Stafford Smith. Arranged by Theodore Moses-Tobani. Contemporary. Score and parts. 36 pages. Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings #2347485. Published by Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings (A0.733036).

German-born Theodore Moses Tobani was a composer arranger and violinist mostly in Philadelphia. He is said to have composed more than 550 pieces and made over 4500 arrangements. At times he used various pseudonyms such as Florence Reed, Andrew Herman and Theodore Moses under which many of his works were published. This version of The Star-Spangled Banner was the encore piece of a work he called Grand American Fantasia a medley of American songs that was first published in 1906 (when The Banner was still referred to as the unofficial American hymn.) In his arrangement Moses-Tobani wrote (what I call) flying woodwinds--the flutes and clarinets are racing through the skies while the rest of the band plays their boring parts. The words to The Banner are from the poem Defense of Ft. McHenry by Francis Scott Key; the music is derived from To Anacreon in Heaven a popular British and American pub song by John Stafford Smith.