Brass Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.899867 Composed by John Philip Sousa. Arranged by Alexander L Burden. Romantic Period. Score and parts. 10 pages. Alexander Burden #3560127. Published by Alexander Burden (A0.899867). Genre: MarchLength: 2:48Instrumentation: Alto Saxophone and EuphoniumKing Cotton is a military march composed in 1895 by John Philip Sousa, for the Cotton States and International Exposition (1895). The expression King Cotton in general refers to the historically high importance of cotton as a cash crop in the southern United States. This fun arrangement and challenging arrangement for alto saxophone and euphonium is sure to be a crowd favorite and includes altissimo passages in the saxophone part.The Composer:John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as The March King, or the American March King due to his British counterpart, Kenneth J. Alford also being known by the former nickname. Among his best-known marches are The Stars and Stripes Forever (National March of the United States of America), Semper Fidelis (Official March of the United States Marine Corps), The Liberty Bell (used as the theme for Monty Python's Flying Circus), The Thunderer and The Washington Post.The Arranger:Email: alburden9012@eagle.fgcu.eduAlexander Burden is a Florida born, professional musician and music educator residing in Southwest Florida. There, he is the music teacher at Westside Elementary in Clewiston. Concurrent with his duties at Westside, he also teaches private and group instrumental music lessons and preforms regularly with various professional ensembles throughout Southwest Florida. Burden holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree with an instrumental concentration from the Bower School of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. There he studied under world renowned saxophonist Mario Bernardo. He also holds an Associate of Arts degree with a Music Education and Saxophone Performance concentration from Eastern Florida State College where he was a student of James Bishop. During his time at the Bower School of music, he served as principle saxophonist in the FGCU Wind Orchestra, lead alto in the Jazz Band Flight: Jazz at FGCU, and played soprano saxophone in the Bower Saxophone Quartet. Alexander was selected to play tenor saxophone in the 2017 National Intercollegiate Band as well as principle alto saxophone in the 2017 Florida All-State Intercollegiate Band and tenor saxophone in the 2016 Florida All-State Intercollegiate Band. In November of 2015, Alexander participated in a critically acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City with the FGCU Wind Orchestra.

Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.964581 Composed by Lew Pollack. Arranged by Betsy Bright. Concert,Graduation,Jazz,Ragtime. Score and parts. 10 pages. Bright Music Company #6247275. Published by Bright Music Company (A0.964581). This arrangement of the audience favorite, That’s A Plenty is scored for 2 Bb trumpets and tuba. It’s a reduced version of our brass quintet arrangement of this piece. Our edition of this piece has been reduced to under 2 minutes, making it perfect for education shows when you want some Dixieland, but you don’t have all day. There’s enough written-in-improv lines (inspired by the Louis Armstrong recordings) to make it feel right, but without requiring actual improvisation. And, as always, there’s ample rest for the trumpets! This piece is so painless to play that it could be put at the end of any recital, no matter how tiring, and everyone can get through this last piece while taking the audience out with some Dixieland fun.Check out our full brass quintet edition of this arrangement too!Duration: just under 2 minutes

Brass Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.805820 Composed by Barrington Pheloung. Arranged by G L Harvey. Contemporary. Score and parts. 36 pages. G L Harvey #4409977. Published by G L Harvey (A0.805820). To quote inspector Morse Mark my words Lewis this is an ingenious idea for a theme.  The dash dash dot dot dot rhythmic theme will help your audience recollect this fantastic TV series and the brilliant John Thaw as inspector Morse. This flexible arrangement for intermediate level brass quintet has parts for most common combinations.  Like all good arrangements, everyone has the tune somewhere and the addition of an optional glockenspiel part gives that little extra sparkle.  It has a comfortable range for intermediate players, with a few more technical demands for parts 1 and 3. There is also an easier version of part 3 for horn (3b) taking out the slightly trickier passages.  The A4 size score has 36 pages with full score and parts for: part 1 - trumpet in Bb & soprano cornet in Eb, part 2 - trumpet in Bb, part 3 - horns in F & Eb, part 3b (easier version) - also horns in F & Eb, part 4 - trombone & baritone (treble & bass clef), part 5 - tuba, Eb & Bb bass, plus optional glock part.

Brass Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.750339 Composed by Eddie Lewis. Concert,Folk. Score and parts. 24 pages. Tiger Music #5805959. Published by Tiger Music (A0.750339). Four Vignettes Brass Trio Sheet Music PDFby Eddie LewisFour short movements for professional level brass trio, Four Vignettes is a new piece of Americana. The movements are titled:A Family PortraitA Mountain SceneA Bride to BeThe GunslingerLooking back at my career as a composer of brass music, Four Vignettes represents the beginning of a new style period for me (yes, even non-famous composers and musicians have style periods). The Four Vignettes were the first brass piece that I composed just to sound beautiful.I will never forget the look on Dave Kirk’s face when we finished reading it the first time. We were in a room at Rice University where he teaches after a Texas Brass Quintet rehearsal. This was back when both Dave and I were in the band. I asked him and the hornist if they would stay after the rehearsal to read through my new trio. It was these Four Vignettes.When I finished, I KNEW it was mission accomplished because Dave’s face lit up. He had a smile of satisfaction not unlike a smile someone would have after a very satisfying meal.My compositions have been different since then. More like this Four Vignettes piece and less like the experimental stuff I was writing in the 90’s.