Large Ensemble Alto Recorder,Alto Saxophone,Banjo,Bass Guitar,Bassoon,Clarinet,English Horn,Flute,Harpsichord,High Voice,Low Voice,Medium Voice,Oboe,Organ,Piano Accompaniment,Soprano Recorder,Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Recorder,Tenor Saxophone,Trumpet,Ukulele,Viola,Violin - Digital Download

SKU: A0.858684

By Steve Tyrell. By John Frederick Coots. Arranged by Stephen Bulat. Jazz. Score and parts. 20 pages. Stephen Bulat Publishing #5754209. Published by Stephen Bulat Publishing (A0.858684).

The sheet music for Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; the classic Christmas song in the style of Bruce Springsteen & The East Street Band. It includes both a lead sheet with melody, lyrics and chords (and some cue markings) and a rhythm chart with more detailed cues written out. This is the Bandleader Gig Pack which has both the lead sheet and rhythm chart for C, Bb and Eb instruments; perfect if you have a sax or trumpet player wanting to play along with the band. Every chart has rehearsal markings that match across all parts; ideal for making notes and calling out sections of the song. As well, sheet music with no key signature and empty bars but with rehearsal markings is included for any musician (eg: drummer) wanting a blank template to write in their parts in sheet music that lines up with the other musicians.

A Holiday songbook must-have, this arrangement has been gig-tested and has a very easy to follow roadmap, with all essential music notes, musical cues and rehearsal markings throughout. Layout is in a larger style font than lead sheets in a typical fakebook yet still condensed to fit on one page. This format can be used for guitar sheet music, for piano sheet music, as instrumental sheet music, vocal sheet music or as accompaniment to a soloist. (e.g. violin, flute, singer)

Please click on the publisher to view this song in other keys as well as to purchase other popular Christmas songs in the Christmas Classics Fake Book compilation.

Christmas Classics Fake Book (C Instruments): https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20936007 - Item Number: S0.440923

Christmas Classics Fake Book (Bb Instruments): https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20940166 - Item Number: S0.444845

Christmas Classics Fake Book (Eb Instruments): https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20940155 - Item Number: S0.444839

Christmas Classics Fake Book - Band Leader Gig Pack (C, Bb & Eb Instruments): https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20953727 - Item Number: S0.453973

SMPPress publisher page: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/stephen-bulat-sheet-music/3007289 - Stephen Bulat Publishing

Online: http://stephenbulat.com

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1323881

By Michael Buble. By Haven Gillespie and John Frederick Coots. Arranged by Thomas Gunther. Blues,Christmas,Jazz. Score. 5 pages. Thomas Gunther Music Productions #912057. Published by Thomas Gunther Music Productions (A0.1323881).

Solo Piano Arrangement By Thomas Gunther
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town is another one of my favorite Christmas songs. For some reason I love playing it in a bluesy style, with some jazz voicings. The bridge is more in stride piano style.
About The Arrangement
The arrangement includes different stylistic elements found in more traditional popular piano music. It definitely has a bluesy vibe, but also shows elements of jazz and stride piano.
When it comes to the form I extended it by adding an intro that comes back in-between sections in form of an interlude. There is also an outro. 
About The Sheet Music
The sheet music is basically a transcription of my recording. It contains jazz chord symbols and plentiful of articulations as well as some dynamic markings. 
My Arranging Workflow
I have different approaches for creating solo piano arrangements of songs. The one I took here is as follows. First I come up with different ideas, try them out, and after a while settle on those I like best. Once I practiced and internalized those ideas I press record and hope for the best. Before the final version is done, I record myself many times over. This gives me the opportunity to improve upon each version until I have one that I feel comfortable with.
Recommendations For Learning The Song
I recommend that you first listen to my performance while reading along in the sheet music. This way you get a better understanding about the phrasing and the rhythmic feel.
You may want to spend a little time just vamping a few bars to get into the groove. When that feels good move on to different sections.
The bridge is different in feel because it is based on stride piano rather than blues. Stride piano features big jumps in the left hand and big intervals between the outer notes (up to a 10th). Should you have difficulty in playing those big intervals (smaller hands will make this hard) you may roll the notes and use the sustain pedal.
Is This Arrangement For You?
This solo piano arrangement is for every pianist who would like to try playing Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town in a more bluesy-jazzy style. Dependent on what your specialty is musically speaking, you made benefit from it in different ways. Here are some examples.
Classical Pianists
If you are a classical pianist who rarely listens to jazz and blues music, this arrangement might be a great way to dip your feed into more contemporary genres and styles like blues and jazz. This said, it might be quite challenging. Not from a technical point of view, but from a musical point of view. For example, swung eighth notes and accents and phrasing in blues and jazz are somewhat contrary to classical music. It's gonna be a great learning experience for sure!
Jazz Pianists
Should you be a jazz musician or blues musician, you may not necessarily want to play the arrangement as written note for note. Instead, you might just fall in love with some of my ideas and create your own arrangement based on those.
This goes especially for the solo section. You can play my solo or use it as inspiration for your own solo. Of course experiences blues and jazz musicians will prefer to make up their own solo.
I truly hope you have fun playing this arrangement! Yes.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1260605

Composed by Martha Hill Duncan. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 27 pages. Abundant Silence #853798. Published by Abundant Silence (A0.1260605).

SPIRALS IN THE SKY, BY MARTHA HILL DUNCAN
FOR SOLO PIANO, LATE INTERMEDIATE, 21 PAGES
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In this whimsical marriage of astronomy and music, my husband,  astrophysicist, Dr. Martin Duncan and I have combined our talents to celebrate the beauty of the night sky and the magic of music. M.H. Duncan

Martha Hill Duncan’s passion for music started early, inspired by her mother, who sang and played the piano by ear. Martha was a member of the first graduating class of the Houston High School for Performing and Visual Arts and earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin.
Her piano works have been inspired, at least in part, by her long-time career as a piano teacher and some of these pieces, as well as her art songs, appear in educational publications and syllabi. Piano collection titles include The Sunken Garden, Isla Vista Suite, Precipitations, Angular Measures, Limestone Etchings, Rainy Days and Cottage Days. Since moving from the United States to Canada, many of her compositions have been inspired by Canadian landscapes and texts. In January 2014, her youth opera, Searching the Painted Sky, with poet/librettist Janet Windeler Ryan, was premiered at the National Opera Association Convention in New York City. She was named a finalist for the 2020 Louis Applebaum Award.
A former piano examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music, she is also a founding member of Red Leaf Pianoworks, a self-publishing composers’ collective. Originally from Houston, Texas, Martha and her husband Martin have lived in Kingston, Ontario since 1988. She also conducts the women’s choir She Sings! and has two grown children and two granddaughters. To explore more of her music, please visit www.marthahillduncan.com

Dr. Martin Duncan was born in London, England and was raised in Montreal, Canada. As a child, his biggest question was, “What would happen if...?� His first experiments involved creating foul-smelling concoctions with his chemistry set in his
parents’ basement. He survived and went on to complete an Honours Physics degree at McGill University, followed by graduate degrees in astronomy at the Universities of Toronto and Texas at Austin. Post-doctoral research was performed at Cornell University, the University of Toronto and the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1988, he became a professor of astronomy and physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
In his academic career he has co-authored over 120 scientific papers, which have been cited over 8,000 times. He has presented numerous invited talks at international scientific conferences and has been the guest speaker at many public lectures. His research has ranged from the study of black holes to simulations of the formation and orbital evolution of planets and comets. He is best known for the prediction of the existence of a disk of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, which he and his colleagues called the Kuiper Belt. In 1996, the International Astronomical Union named Asteroid 6115 “martinduncan� in honor of his contributions to planetary dynamics.

Composed by Christmas Traditional. Arranged by Glissato Music Publishing. Classical,Multicultural,Spirit ual,World. Individual part. 52 pages. Glissato Edizioni Musicali #6539929. Published by Glissato Edizioni Musicali

By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 22 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions

Composed by Gregory Fritze. 21st Century, Contemporary Classical, Neo-Classical, Sacred, Funeral. Piano Reduction, Solo Part. 14 pages. Published by Musica Nova USA

Concert Band - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.917410

Composed by Gregory Fritze. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 267 pages. Musica Nova USA #6078853. Published by Musica Nova USA (A0.917410).

Sinfonietta (alternate title Sinfonía de Vino y Aceite de Magallon) is a composition for concert band that can be played by any band whether it has 100 players or 30 players. It is at grade 3 level of difficulty and has several substitute parts for ensembles that may not have complete instrumentation. Although the scoring includes piccolo, oboes, bassoons, and French horns, these instruments are not needed to command a good performance.

Sinfonietta adheres to classical forms of symphonies by composers such as Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The forms are very clear so the players of the band can learn this important history.

The first movement is in standard Sonata Allegro form.

The second movement is in A B A form and features a solo trumpet.

The third movementis in a Rondo form (A B A C A) with three distinct themes.

The work was commissioned in 2017 by the town of Magallón, Spain in celebration of the town’s industries of wine and olive oil.  The mayor of the town of 1,000 inhabitants, Victor Manuel Chueca Rodriguez, was specific in his request for a composition at grade 3 level of difficulty. He also suggested the title as Symphony. Since it a three-movement composition instead of a four-movement composition (the normal Minuet and Trio movement is not included in this piece), the title of Sinfonietta instead of Symphony is used.

Gregory Fritzeis a prize-winning composer and Fulbright Scholar, as well as an active performer and conductor. His compositions have been performed more than one thousand times in over twenty-six countries. He has written over ninety compositionsfor orchestra, band, chamber ensemblesand soloists.  He has won over sixty composition awards both nationally and internationally, including First Prize in the 1st WASBE (World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles) International Composition Contest2017, First Prize Winner of Reneé Fisher Composition Prize, First Prize Winner in Concurso Bienal de Composición de Musica para Banda, Ciudad de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain), Menzione d'Onore  (highest award given) of the Mario Bernardo Angelo-Comneno International Music Competition by the Accademia Angelica Costantiniana Arti E Scienze (Italy), First Prize in the TUBA International Etude Composition Competition, the IBLA Grand Prize (Italy), 2nd Prize in the 2nd WASBE International Composition Contest 2019, several awards from The American Prize, annual composition awards from Standard Awards Panel of American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and many others.  He has been commissioned by The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, The Army Band Pershing’s Own of Washington, DC, The Banda Municipal of Bilbao, The Primativa de Lliria, and others. His compositions include works published by several publishers in the United States, South America and Europe and have been performed extensively throughout the world. 

He has thirty-three compositions commercially recorded on Albany Records, MSR Classics, Crystal Records, Mark Records and others. He has been a guest lecturer, conductor and performer at many colleges, universities and music festivals in the United States, Canada, Japan, South America and Europe. He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1954 and has Composition degrees from the Boston Conservatory and Indiana University. He now resides in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida.

Composed by Gregory Fritze. 21st Century, Contemporary Classical, Neo-Classical, Repertoire, Recital. Piano Reduction, Solo Part. 39 pages. Published by Musica Nova USA

Composed by Gregory Fritze. 21st Century, 20th Century, Contemporary Classical, Neo- Classical, Recital. Piano Reduction, Solo Part. 31 pages. Published by Musica Nova USA

By Juanita Ulloa. For Keyboard (Piano). Latin American. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.744619

By Michael Buble. By John Frederick Coots. Arranged by Elena Fortin. Jazz. Score. 4 pages. Elena Fortin #3926115. Published by Elena Fortin (A0.744619).

Santa Claus is Comin' To Town ... and He's Rockin' the Blues

This arrangement is a fun challenge for the Advanced Intermediate - Advanced player. A blues/rock version of the classic carol, Santa Claus is Comin' To Town, this arrangement incorporates standard blues licks and a steady, relaxed LH blues accompaniment.

The original Christmas favourite was written by J. Fred Coots with the lyrics by Haven Gillespie. In my arrangement, you'll make use of tremelos, blues scales, chromatic scales, triplet rhythms, quintuplets, and blues licks.

Video for this arrangement can be found here: https://youtu.be/ZzuCULkrpp4. For more arrangements and performances, please check out and subscribe to my YouTube Channel, or my publisher page here on Sheet Music Plus!

You can also find me at www.the-piano-studio.com! Drop me a line, I'd love to hear from you!

Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.861961

Composed by Mark O'Connor. 20th Century,Contemporary,Folk. Score and parts. 162 pages. Mark O'Connor Musik International #6209399. Published by Mark O'Connor Musik International (A0.861961).

Americana Symphony Variations on Appalachia Waltz (brass parts – symphony orchestra) MO164J-P

Brass Parts (score and parts available)

Music by Mark O’Connor

162 pages – 33:00 minutes in length

 

Americana Symphony Variations on Appalachia Waltz

For Large Symphony Orchestra

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Composed and orchestrated by Mark O’Connor

 

1st Movement: Brass Fanfare: Wide Open Spaces

2nd Movement: New World Fanciful Dance

3rd Movement: Different Paths Towards Home

4th Movement: Open Plains Hoedown

5th Movement: Soaring Eagle, Setting Sun

6th Movement: Theme: Splendid Horizons

Note: Any movement or combination of the movements can be singled out or re-organized for performance. Most any order of movements is acceptable. Suggestions for consideration included I., II., III., and IV., all recommended as stand alone pieces. Most an order of movements is acceptable. The composition was designed for maximum flexibility. Three or four movements combine to make a shorter variation Symphony.

 

What is American Classical music? This CD contains Mark O'Connor's latest orchestral works: Americana Symphony Variations on Appalachia Waltz(2006) and Concerto No. 6 Old Brass (2003). Sony Classical//BMG label director Gilbert Hetherwick explains; Dvorak and Copland painted symphonic landscapes using melodies inspired by the Americana tradition, and Mark O'Connor actually comes from that tradition itself. He's lived it every day of his life. And you hear it in every note of his Americana Symphony. For the majority of his solo career, O'Connor has dedicated himself to composing for orchestra: he has written six full-length concertos, several orchestral suites and string orchestra compositions, and most recently his first Symphony.

David Wallace, Juilliard School faculty member and Senior Teaching Artist with the New York Philharmonic, comments on the overall characteristics of O'Connor's music: The Americana Symphony combines historical narrative with classical and folk variation principles. The Symphony contains instrumental virtuosity, rhythmic drive, poignant lyricism, and probing counterpoint. With the Americana Symphony, Mark O'Connor provides his answer to a question that has intrigued U. S. composers since the debut of Dvorak's New World Symphony in 1892: How do you write the great American Symphony?

William Intrilligator, artistic director of the Dubuque Symphony, conducted one of the first performances of the Americana Symphony: Very few pieces of new music have the same emotional and visceral effect as this Symphony, he writes. It has such power and beauty, and these traits are expressed in original ways that are pure O'Connor and truly American.

Marin Alsop, artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and this recording's conductor of the Americana Symphony, calls the Symphony simply A hit!

 

Original music printed from the composer’s manuscripts.

Music editing, copying and engraving by Mark O’Connor

using Finale on Apple Macintosh 2006 - 2007

 

Composed by Mark O’Connor

Commissioned by: Cabrillo Music Festival and Marin Alsop, Colorado Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Fargo Moorhead Symphony, Fox Valley Symphony, Garrett Lakes Arts Festival, Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium, Imperial Symphony, Reading Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Rockford Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, Springfield Symphony, Springfield Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, Youngstown Youth Symphony.

 

Can be heard on Americana Symphony! OMAC Records

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop