SKU: A0.751041

Sunshine On My Shoulders – Concert Band

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high

Sunshine on My Shoulders (sometimes titled simply Sunshine) is a song recorded and co-written by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally released as an album track on 1971's Poems, Prayers & Promises and later, as a single in 1973.

Denver wrote this song on an early spring day in Minnesota when the rain was gently falling. He found himself looking forward to spending more time outdoors and enjoying the sunshine. He said of the song, On one level it was about the virtues of love. On another, more deeply felt level, it reached for something the whole world could embrace.

 This is an arrangement for Concert Band with an optional Piano part...

Grade = 3 Duration = 2:45 mins

 The MP3 and Video audio was recorded with NotePerformer 3.

Copyright © 1971; Renewed 1999 BMG Ruby Songs, My Pop's Songs, Dino Park Publishing,

Jesse Belle Denver and Reservoir Media Music in the U.S. All Rights for BMG Ruby Songs

 Administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC All Rights for My Pop's Songs and

 Dino Park Publishing Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing All Rights for Jesse

 Belle Denver Administered by WB Music Corp. All Rights for Reservoir Media Music

Administered by Reservoir Media Management, Inc. (Publishing) and Alfred Music (Print)

All Rights Reserved Used by Permission

SKU: A0.1110858

The song simmering into fall is a song that supposed to portray fall as a season, but it just turned into a beautiful pile of trash, as the Intro is the introduction, movement A is supposed to portray the cooling down in the tempeture and changing the color of trees, movement B is supposed to represent false fall but after a while, the music seems to fall out of control. I don't know if this song trash or Tresure, please find out and enjoy, and tell me how yawl think. If yawl can manage to play thst song in real life and make it sound good, it would make yawl the best musicians.

SKU: A0.805833

Concert Ready is designed to feature your latest batch of new players with full Wind Band accompaniment. Schools and music centers will recognize the scenario where your last cohort of new starters has been playing a little while, your trumpeters can play most of a C scale, your clarinet players can manage quite well below the break (so long as they have a reed that works), and your saxophone players have just discovered the volume control!  They are keen and enthusiastic to take part in their first concert.  This piece gives them the opportunity to play a fun piece with a band, with any number of their peers (strength in numbers!).

The Wind Band is scored with multiple cues to enable performance from non standard instrumentation, plus additional parts for example in Eb and treble clef to cater for Tenor Horn, Baritone and Trombone etc. Parts are also designed to scale dynamically (play if directed comments) to balance the size of the solo group.

The PDF is in A4 portrait (44 pages) and contains a full score and parts.  The duration of the piece is just over 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Note that the difficultly level for the soloists is Easy/Beginner, whilst the level for the band is intermediate and over, roughly about band grade 2/3.

SKU: A0.1325951

The song is a brilliant, toungue-in-cheek critique of the social media that permeates our lives these days. And what is better then than to use social media to sell this arrangement? A flexible 7-part arrangement with a touch of percussion, some tricky rhythms in the melody along the way, but not more than you can manage by listening to the original song and playing along.

SKU: A0.1438470

A beautiful slow melody in 4/4 followed by a rousing 6/4 trek with fanfares then returning to the slow melody in 4/4. Not overly difficult but players should be around Grade 5 (ABRSM) and intermediate level concert bands, school bands and symphonic wind ensembles should manage it easily. 

Inspired by an old ruined church in my town called the 'Cross Kirk' during the times of the Cromwellian invasion of Scotland.

Part 1 It is around the year 1650. A novice monk awakes from his slumber to the echoes of prayers and holy chanting coming through the cloisters. After he rises, he readies the oxen for a trek down the St. Andrews Road to the nearby satellite site of the priory - the site of the modern day St Andrew's cemetery.

Part 2  It is an arduous trek over a muddy, rocky, unprepared track with heavy carts, with oxen straining to pull the load. They stop for a breather (3:09) and the impressive vistas are observed and the flag at 'Auld Neidpath' is just visible, reflected in the noble theme between the arduous oxen trekking theme.

Part 3 The caravan starts to speed up; the oxen being startled by the sounds of fanfare trumpets coming from behind - a brave group of knights have broken through English lines and speed towards Neidpath to reinforce the besieged occupants. As they pass the wagon train, the fanfares get louder until the party reach the head of the train where the lead Knight halts to show piety to the Hieromonk who blesses him and his knights. The novice looks on awe-inspired at the brave knights, with noble faces, resplendent in shining armour, with banners flapping in the wind.  No time to stop! The knights remount and continue on, the fanfares trailing off into the distance. The wagon train slows down having reached its destination.

Part 4  The novice is back at the priory, reflecting on seeing knights for the first time (receiving their blessing); their nobility and bravery impressed upon him and retires to his cell for the evening, the evening prayers and chants again echoing through the cloisters . As he closes his eyes, his mind returns to the knights and a smile crosses his face as he gently drifts off to sleep, as the final bell of the day tolls.

SKU: A0.933994

As a composer, musical ideas pop into my head every day. Most of them are completely unrelated to any piece I am currently working on, and I manage to write some of them down for future reference. The theme to Morning Sunrise is one of those ideas. When I wrote it down, I had no idea that I was ever going to create a piece from it, so I just wrote it down for strings.

Several months later, however, I had decided that I wanted to write a piece to thank those who have made my high school music life great. I spent weeks developing 4 or 5 themes and even had half of a piece done at one point, but none of theme worked. I then remembered this one from and realized that it was the perfect theme.

The result of taking so long to complete this piece is that it is a very powerful piece where there are no extraneous notes, and no missing ones either. It is one where every detail matters.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0016725_M1

UPC: 038081504278.

What would a creepy piece be if not in a minor key? Managed through the use of accidentals, this mysterious-sounding piece is actually in B-flat minor through a concert B-flat major key with the addition of accidentals. Great time to reinforce the concept that accidentals last a whole measure. With careful attention to dynamics and articulations, you're certain to have a spooktacular performance! (2:00)
Concert/Contest.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0016725_TN1

UPC: 038081504278.

What would a creepy piece be if not in a minor key? Managed through the use of accidentals, this mysterious-sounding piece is actually in B-flat minor through a concert B-flat major key with the addition of accidentals. Great time to reinforce the concept that accidentals last a whole measure. With careful attention to dynamics and articulations, you're certain to have a spooktacular performance! (2:00)
Concert/Contest.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0016725_T1

UPC: 038081504278.

What would a creepy piece be if not in a minor key? Managed through the use of accidentals, this mysterious-sounding piece is actually in B-flat minor through a concert B-flat major key with the addition of accidentals. Great time to reinforce the concept that accidentals last a whole measure. With careful attention to dynamics and articulations, you're certain to have a spooktacular performance! (2:00)
Concert/Contest.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0016725_BTC1

UPC: 038081504278.

What would a creepy piece be if not in a minor key? Managed through the use of accidentals, this mysterious-sounding piece is actually in B-flat minor through a concert B-flat major key with the addition of accidentals. Great time to reinforce the concept that accidentals last a whole measure. With careful attention to dynamics and articulations, you're certain to have a spooktacular performance! (2:00)
Concert/Contest.