Trombone Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.792200 Composed by Marsteller, Robert. 20th Century,Instructional. Individual part. 8 pages. Gordon Cherry #4625555. Published by Gordon Cherry (A0.792200). Robert Marsteller had an illustrious career as a performing artist and a pedagogue, influencing hundreds of musicians in a major way. His Six Etudes most likely were written while studying at the Eastman School of Music in the late 1930's and are dedicated to his teacher Emory Remington. The etudes are one page each, very challenging technically, cover the four major clefs, explore the extremes in range and are very satisfying musically to perform. If practiced correctly, these etudes will surely be a help to aspiring performers.

Digital Download SKU: C6.646022305 Accompaniment mp3. Composed by Ruth Elaine Schram. Christian. MP3. Growing In Grace - Digital #646022305. Published by Growing In Grace - Digital (C6.646022305). This thoughtful song, set in a minor key, has a hauntingly beautiful sound, especially when performed with the optional 2nd part. An important truth, especially for children, the message of the song is carried along in middle range singing without wide extremes.

Violin Duet Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1488286 Composed by Ignaz Josef Pleyel. Arranged by Allan Badley. Classical. 55 pages. Artaria Editions #1065174. Published by Artaria Editions (A0.1488286). Artaria Editions AE407-2Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) was at one time the most famous composer in the world. The popularity of his music eclipsed that of even his teacher Haydn and publishers vied to bring out his latest works as soon as they were finished. Some 2000 separate prints of Pleyel works had appeared by 1800 and his fame extended to every corner of Europe and as far afield as North America. Pleyels career as a composer spanned less than thirty years with the majority of his works composed in the 1780s. He founded a successful publishing house in Paris in the mid-1790s and later began manufacturing keyboard instruments. With increasing demands on his time from his business concerns Pleyels productivity as a composer dropped sharply and he ceased composing around 1805. Among the authentic chamber works the duos occupy a particularly interesting place. Pleyel composed duos of varying technical difficulty in order to appeal to the widest possible market and he clearly intended that players progress from easy works, signalled by titles such as Duo Facile or Petit Duo, to more ambitious works. The present works, composed ca 1788, lie between these two extremes: they require players with well-developed techniques but do not present exceptional difficulties to the performer. They are graceful, attractive works and their great popularity in Pleyels lifetime comes as no surprise to the modern performer.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1258549 By The Mamas And The Papas. By Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass. Arranged by Ebony McCarthy. Folk,Pop,Ragtime,Rock. Octavo. 11 pages. Ebony McCarthy #851805. Published by Ebony McCarthy (A0.1258549). This arrangement is rich in the harmony and dynamic extremeties as heard in the Mamas and Papas performances of it. Having originally been arranged for a senior High School choir, this SATB arrangement is suitable for any SATB choir.

Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1453498 Composed by Sy Brandon. 21st Century,Contest,Festival. 235 pages. Sy Brandon #1032727. Published by Sy Brandon (A0.1453498). Legacy is a three-movement composition for chamber orchestra that makes social commentary on the issue of global warming. It was commission in 2007 by the Washington Sinfonietta, Rufus Jones, conductor and rewritten for chamber orchestra in 2023. I. Conflicts - This movement begins with a cry from native cultures admonishing our neglect of the environment. The cry is interspersed with debate regarding the seriousness of global warming (woodwinds). The debate grows stronger as the cries grow weaker. The debate isquieted by a measure of repeated chords that could be the words, stop it! stop it now!” A weak cry in the English Horn brings the introduction to a close. An Allegro section follows with a rhythmic and primitive sounding section representing the underdeveloped nations that are destroying the rain forests for economic gain. This material evolves into a more harmonic and contrapuntal section representing industrialized nations reluctant to change, also for economic reasons. Things quiet down as the music takes the listener to another part of the globe, East Asia. Conflict is again present in this section. The music returns to a varied restatement of the industrialized nations music before traveling to India for a section influenced by Raga. This section builds in dissonance until we hear the repeated stop it now chords from the introduction. A brief reprise of the cries brings the movement to a close. II. Consequences - This movement evokes a somber mood that is reflective of living in a climate of extremes. The movement is in arch form as it begins and ends with open harmony reflective of barren lands that once were fertile. The middle section serves as a climax expressing the harshness of the climate. Colleen McCullough's book, A Creed for the Third Millennium was a source of inspiration for this movement. III. Sacrifice and Compromise - The movement begins with a strong section that suggests progress. It is followed by a quieter and intense section that alternates lyrical lines over a staccato ostinato creating a sense of urgency. The opening section returns and is followed by a development of the ostinato section. This section is symbolic of how ideas need to be adapted in order for progress to be made. The opening section returns once more before leading into the concluding section where there is coming together of the instruments on a long lyrical line representing more and more people working together for change. The movement ends with a sense of triumph over adversity. Score prints on legal size paper and parts on letter.

Twenty-three sacred hymns and songs From the Foreword: Recent years have seen much increase in the activities of small and medium sized instrumental ensembles in schools at all grade levels, generally as an adjunct of band and orchestral programs.Many churches and Sunday Schools also use ensembles of various types in programs and services. Such groups are looking for playable music that is also interesting and worthwhile. This collection contains settings of sacred hymns and songs, and other selections, all of which should be usable in the church and the school. The hymn and song treatments are not just instrumentations of standard hymnal type, but are complete arrangements, using such devices as introductions, bridges, reharmonizations in present day idioms, rhythmic variety, countermelodies, etc. All selections have been scored for a six (or five) part brass ensemble with the following part books available: (preferred instruments are listed before the parenthetical substitution possibilities) Part 1: C Instruments (Violin, Oboe, Flute); 1st Bb Trumpet or Cornet (Bb Clarinet) Part 2: 2nd Bb Trumpet or Cornet (Bb Clarinet) Part 3: 3rd Bb Trumpet or Cornet (Bb Clarinet); F Horn (English Horn); Eb Horn (Alto Saxophone, Eb Alto Clarinet) Part 4: Baritone treble clef (Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet); Trombone (Baritone bass clef, Bassoon, Cello) Part 5: Baritone bass clef (Trombone, Bassoon, Cello) Part 6: Tuba or Sousaphone (Bassoon or Cello with occasional lower range limits, String Bass 8vb) While hoping to keep the selections interesting and worthwhile for experienced players, they have generally been restricted to a medium level of difficulty (or Grade III as defined by the Instrumentalist Magazine). Extremes of range and key signature have been avoided, lead parts have ample time to rest and catch their breath and technical demands are usually modest. Selections which could have been expanded to larger proportions (such as A Mighty Fortress) have been held to a modest length, in order to give younger musicians a better chance to play them successfully. Footnotes in the conductor's score indicate how the longer medleys can be abbreviated, if that is desirable. WESLEY HANSON

Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.755176 Composed by Sy Brandon. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score and parts. 132 pages. Sy Brandon #3409931. Published by Sy Brandon (A0.755176). This composition won Franklin and Marshall College’s wind Ensemble Composition Contest in 2001. Kakadu, Australia's ancient wilderness, comprises 8,000 square miles of the Northern Territory and boasts the longest continuous surviving human cultures in the world. Aborigines have been living in this region for at least 40,000 years. The region also contains abundant wild life. It is a land of varied extremes that creates a constant cycle of destruction and renewal. The composition is loosely programmatic. It does not depict the six seasons sequentially nor does it depict the six seasons with specific thematic material. The composition does attempt to capture both the primitiveness and beauty of this ancient wilderness and the cycles of its seasons, each with its own uniqueness and its challenge for the sustaining of life. The score prints on legal size paper and the parts on letter. 

Flute Duet Flute - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1350627 Composed by Henry John Gauntlett. Arranged by Carolyn Kelley. Christian,Christmas,Praise & Worship,Sacred,Traditional. Score. 2 pages. Carolyn Kelley #935448. Published by Carolyn Kelley (A0.1350627). Reflect peacefully on the Christmas story while you enjoy this duet with a flute-playing friend! This duet is calm and peaceful, using the lower extremes of the instrument.This work is designed for advanced high school students and more advanced players; there are challenges in range and intonation present.NOTE: This work appears in a larger collection of 8 duets, named Christmas With Our Savior. This collection also features well-known songs like Silent Night. Find this collection here: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1449490/Product.aspx.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1378093 By Elton John. By Elton John and Tim Rice. Arranged by Cassy Gress. Broadway,Film/TV,Musical/Show. 10 pages. Cassy Gress #962714. Published by Cassy Gress (A0.1378093). This SATB arrangement of Circle of Life forgoes the traditional Lebo M opening for a more metaphorical sunrise, and shortly thereafter the sopranos and altos are the mother cooing to her newborn child, the ingonyama. The familiar chant does not appear until partway through the instrumental break, and continues euphorically through the modulation to the thundering finale. There are opportunities for ambitious sopranos and basses to reach the extremes of their range, and three-way divisi for the altos.

Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1031686 Composed by Austin Wintory. Contemporary. Score and parts. 39 pages. Austin Wintory #3512243. Published by Austin Wintory (A0.1031686). EP!C!!! is an overture-sized orchestral work, originally commissioned by the West Michigan Symphony in 2016. It is intended as a higher energy opener or Act 1 closer. Program notes:Entirely by mistake, EP!C!!! is study in conflict. The piece began with a simple premise: compose a work which teases some of the pervasive clichés of today’s musical landscape (particularly the Hollywood or so-called media music scenes). Those clichés are primarily two gestures: 1) a progression of chords, often called the Chords of Destiny (consisting of i – VI – III – VIII) and 2) an endlessly repeating minor third ostinato.The conflict emerged internally when, after multiple false starts, I would quickly start to hate the piece because it felt like the clichés were being presented whole cloth, without the slightest sense of irony. I became deeply paranoid that the music wasn’t in on its own joke. When I would reverse course, it felt condescending, as though it were declaring from some erudite ivory tower that it was above those gestures. The trouble particularly with the latter is that clichés become so for a reason; something genuinely compelling becomes so ubiquitous that it loses some of the freshness, but that doesn’t erase what initially made it compelling. So the piece needed to somehow make fun of the fact that these gestures are cliché, while not dismissing their intrinsic value. And indeed, to celebrate that value!It took a long time to find my place between those two extremes, and ultimately I think the music that emerged is actually the conflict itself manifest. The two gestures are this constant presence, almost like a seductive temptation, that are initially regarded as distractions, but eventually become the music’s core. It’s as though the music finally decided to just relent and find something to truly love and celebrate within these overwrought ideas, haters be damned.However, for the sake of total clarity of intention, I couldn’t resist some on-the-nose tongue-in-cheek. The little cameo of Haydn’s lulling 94th Symphony 2nd movement tune is my way of saying you think classical music is epic??? THEN LISTEN TO THIS SH*T!!! before inevitably popping open a Mountain Dew and snowboarding into an avalanche.- Austin Wintory, October 21, 2016

Drum Set,Drums - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1484859 By Extreme. By Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt. Arranged by Evan Aria Serenity. Funk,Pop,Punk,Rock. Score. 4 pages. Jaslow Drum Sheets #1061947. Published by Jaslow Drum Sheets (A0.1484859). Drum sheet music transcription for Peacemaker Die by Extreme, from the album III Sides to Every Story (1992). Drums by Paul Geary. Hard/art rock, difficulty 3/5.jdrumsheets.com

Small Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.777349 By Extreme. By Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt. Arranged by Patrick McAlexander. Metal. Score and parts. 6 pages. Patrick McAlexander #3682653. Published by Patrick McAlexander (A0.777349). Arrangement of this classic Extreme song, originally done for barbershop quartet.

Choral Choir (SSA) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.762568 By Extreme. By Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt. Arranged by Carolyn Goates. 20th Century,Contemporary,Pop,Rock. Octavo. 5 pages. Carolyn Goates #5769907. Published by Carolyn Goates (A0.762568). This gentle acoustic song by Extreme works well with live female vocals. You might get that Scala choir effect.

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.896100 By Extreme. By Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt. Arranged by Jim Lansing. Instructional,Pop,Rock. Score. 3 pages. Jim Lansing #6534931. Published by Jim Lansing (A0.896100). Early Intermediate level arrangement of Extreme's 1990 power ballad More Than Words transposed to G for ease of playing.  Syncopation has been simplifed for easier reading; once notes are learned, encourage player to use their ear to fix the rhythms to match the artist's recording. RH plays in C, G, Am, and Bm positions and has leap of 7th in mm. 27-28 and 35-36.  Slightly challenging fingering in mm.20-22 due to accidentals.  LH plays in G, Am, and C positions.  Movement achieved by changing fingers on repeated notes or expanding/contracting fingers during phrases.

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1496463 By Extreme. By Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt. Arranged by Sam Shoup. Pop,Rock. 35 pages. Sam Shoup #1072987. Published by Sam Shoup (A0.1496463). The rock/pop ballad by Extreme, arranged for string orchestra, rhythm section, and vocal duet. Instrumentation is acoustic guitar, electric bass, piano, drumset and strings. Intermediate difficulty. Score is 11 x 17, parts are 8 1/2 x 11.