Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.927168 Composed by George Willson. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 73 pages. George Willson #3515727. Published by George Willson (A0.927168). The piece is at least a grade 3 due to competing time signatures, contrapuntal melodies, and persistent upper register work across several sections.Written during my time in the Army, this march emerged as a sort of musical joke. The melody and rhythm parts alternate between 6/8 and 2/4 (or 2 over 3) time throughout the piece with the quarter and dotted-quarter keeping the same beat. It incorporates nearly every march convention that my friend and I could think of from the low brass taking over the strain and piccolo obbligato to the baffling euphonium arpeggios in the final strain along with the equally bafflingly obnoxious trombone countermelody. At the same time, it breaks convention by granting the horn players the melodic line in the trio section instead of giving them the back beats they love so much. One of the stranger jokes whose meaning one might miss is the mix up of beats at the key change which was done deliberately to put the generals and first sergeants out of step. It also contains a symphony's worth of stingers at the end (because 19-year-old me was hilarious ... apparently).

Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.750897 Composed by Charlwood Dunkley (1917). Arranged by Brendan Elliget MAGA 537. Patriotic. Score and parts. 42 pages. BJE Music #4368904. Published by BJE Music (A0.750897). This song was first written as a poem by Sergeant William Darwin, 7th Battalion AIF, whilst recovering in hospital before printed copies of the poem in Kirkleston, Scotland and including it in a letter to Mr. James Walker, Bendigo, dated 24 June 1916. The poem was dedicated to the Anzacs who fell at Gallipoli as well as those who were still living. The poem was published in the Bendigonian on 21 September 1916.The music for this arrangement is credited to Charlwood Dunkley (The music is now out of Copyright and in the Public Domain - Another version of the tune by Ambrose G. Gregory is still in Copyright…)This arrangement is for Concert Band with an Optional Vocal Lead Sheet and Piano Accompaniment part.There are parts for Bb and Eb Basses as well as C Tuba.(The original composition had the Chorus repeated after each of the 3 verses - In my arrangement, the Chorus is played once after each verse…)The MP3 was recorded with NotePerformer 3.Grade = 3 Duration = 4 mins.

Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1019876 Composed by Seth Almond. Standards. Score and parts. 44 pages. Seth Almond #6686837. Published by Seth Almond (A0.1019876). This original composition for Concert Band by Seth Almond entitled Looking on Heaven's Scenes, is a piece written in remembrance of Staff Sergeant Jordan P. Snow. Seth Almond had the honor of serving with Jordan in the Quantico Marine Corps Band in Quantico, VA. After serving four years in the Marine Corps, Jordan Snow enlisted into the Vermont National Guard as a member of the 40th Army Band. In the summer of 2021, Jordan passed and it was a total shock to have lost such a joyful soul, great husband, Marine, and friend. Select melodic lines throughout the piece feature certain instruments who some of Jordan's close friends played during their time serving with him. This piece’s title pays homage to the final lines of the Marines' Hymn:If the Army and the NavyEver look on Heaven's scenes;They will find the streets are guardedBy United States Marines.Duration: 4:10