Clarinet Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1105142 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #708393. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1105142). If you're a beginner or looking to enhance your musical skills, this book is just what you need. It features well-known tunes including For He's A Jolly Good Fellow and Happy Birthday, and is packed with an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the TREBLE clef a breeze.The book is designed specifically for beginners, with each page containing useful teaching points, guidance notes for both teachers and students, a note value chart, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, easy technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes. It's perfect for teacher-student play-along.ENDORSEMENTSProfessional musician Keith Walker highly recommends this book, wishing he had it 50 years ago. It's popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers because of its simplicity and versatility, as it can be played on any instrument.It's available in 10 different versions for all Western musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.This book is a great source of inspiration and motivation for people of all ages and classrooms.A must-have for beginner instrumentalists of all ages..

Bassoon Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1105198 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Folk,Instructional,Multicultural,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #708455. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1105198). If you're a beginner or looking to enhance your musical skills, this book is just what you need. It features well-known tunes including For He's A Jolly Good Fellow and Happy Birthday, and is packed with an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the TENOR clef a breeze.The book is designed specifically for beginners, containing useful teaching points, guidance notes for both teachers and students, a note value chart, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, easy technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes. It's perfect for teacher-student play-along and is available in 10 different versions for all Western musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.ENDORSEMENTS.  Professional musician Keith Walker highly recommends this book, wishing he had it 50 years ago. It's popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers because of its simplicity and versatility, as it can be played on any instrument.This book is a great source of inspiration and motivation for people of all ages and classrooms.It's definitely an excellent resource to have!

Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1105631 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #708849. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1105631). If you're a beginner or looking to enhance your musical skills or looking to add BASS Clef, this book is just what you need. It features well-known tunes including For He's A Jolly Good Fellow and Happy Birthday, and is packed with an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the BASS clef a breeze.The book is designed specifically for beginners, containing useful teaching points, guidance notes for both teachers and students, a note value chart, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, easy technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes. It's perfect for teacher-student play-along.  It's available in 10 different versions for all Western musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.ENDORSEMENTS. Professional musician Keith Walker highly recommends this book, wishing he had it 50 years ago. It's popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers because of its simplicity and versatility, as it can be played on any instrument.This book is a great source of inspiration and motivation for people of all ages and classrooms.A must-have for beginner instrumentalists of all ages.

Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1105637 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #708856. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1105637). If you're a beginner or looking to enhance your musical skills or looking to add Tenor Clef, this book is just what you need. It features well-known tunes including For He's A Jolly Good Fellow and Happy Birthday, and is packed with an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the TENOR clef a breeze.The book is designed specifically for beginners, with each page containing useful teaching points, guidance notes for both teachers and students, a note value chart, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, easy technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes. It's perfect for teacher-student play-along. It's available in 10 different versions for all Western musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.ENDORSEMENTS.  Professional musician Keith Walker highly recommends this book, wishing he had it 50 years ago. It's popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers because of its simplicity and versatility, as it can be played on any instrument.This book is a great source of inspiration and motivation for people of all ages and classrooms.A must-have for beginner instrumentalists of all ages.

French Horn Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1104817 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #708055. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1104817). For Horn in B-flat or F.If you're a beginner or looking to enhance your musical skills, this book is just what you need. It features well-known tunes including For He's A Jolly Good Fellow and Happy Birthday, and is packed with an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the TREBLE clef a breeze.The book is designed specifically for beginners, with each page containing useful teaching points, guidance notes for both teachers and students, a note value chart, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, easy technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes. It's perfect for teacher-student play-along.ENDORSEMENTSProfessional musician Keith Walker highly recommends this book, wishing he had it 50 years ago. It's popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers because of its simplicity and versatility, as it can be played on any instrument.It's available in 10 different versions for all Western musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.This book is a great source of inspiration and motivation for people of all ages and classrooms.A must-have for beginner instrumentalists of all ages.

Viola Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1108031 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. 20th Century,Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #710648. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1108031). If you're a beginner or looking to enhance your musical skills or looking to add Alto Clef, this book is just what you need. A good SIGHT READING book for beginners.It features well-known tunes including For He's A Jolly Good Fellow and Happy Birthday, and is packed with an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the ALTO clef a breeze.The book is designed specifically for beginners, and violinists converting to Viola,  containing useful teaching points, guidance notes for both teachers and students, a note value chart, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, easy technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes. It's perfect for teacher-student play-along.Professional musician Keith Walker highly recommends this book, wishing he had it 50 years ago. It's popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers because of its simplicity and versatility, as it can be played on any instrument.It's available in 10 different versions for all Western musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.This book is a great source of inspiration and motivation for people of all ages and classrooms.A must-have resource for all ages.

Bassoon Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1105627 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #708845. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1105627). If you're a beginner or looking to enhance your musical skills or looking to add Bass Clef, this book is just what you need. It features well-known tunes including For He's A Jolly Good Fellow and Happy Birthday, and is packed with an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the Bass clef a breeze.The book is designed specifically for beginners, containing useful teaching points, guidance notes for both teachers and students, a note value chart, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, easy technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes. It's perfect for teacher-student play-along. It's available in 10 different versions for all Western musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.ENDORSEMENTS.  Professional musician Keith Walker highly recommends this book, wishing he had it 50 years ago. It's popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers because of its simplicity and versatility, as it can be played on any instrument.This book is a great source of inspiration and motivation for people of all ages and classrooms.A must-have for beginner instrumentalists of all ages.

Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.747086 By Randy Travis. By Roger Miller. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Contemporary. 27 pages. Keith Terrett #6426723. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.747086). An arrangement of the classic King of the Road for Wind Dectet.King of the Road is a song written by country singer Roger Miller, who first recorded it in November 1964. The lyrics tell of the day-to-day life of a hobo who, despite being poor (a man of means by no means), revels in his freedom, describing himself humorously and cynically as the king of the road. It was Miller's fifth single for Smash Records. The popular crossover record hit No. 1 on the US Country chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Easy Listening surveys. It was also No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and in Norway. Miller recalled that the song was inspired when he was driving and saw a sign on the side of a barn that read, Trailers for sale or rent. This would become the opening line of the song.The song has been covered by many other artists, including George Jones, Dean Martin, Val Doonican, Jack Jones, James Booker, The Fabulous Echoes, Boney M., R.E.M., Johnny Paycheck, Glen Campbell, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Boxcar Willie, Randy Travis, Rangers, James Kilbane, John Stevens, the Statler Brothers, Rufus Wainwright & Teddy Thompson, Giant Sand, Peligro, John Williamson (singer) & Adam Harvey, The Proclaimers, Ray Conniff Singers, The Reverend Horton Heat, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Jim White. James The King Brown (an Elvis impersonator) performed the song for a 2001 Audi commercial on German TV. Of R.E.M.'s version, a shambolic, drunken, offhand rendering, guitarist Peter Buck would later comment, If there was any justice in the world, Roger Miller should be able to sue for what we did to this song.King of the Road was performed live by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam and Dolly Parton during Miller's posthumous induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame at the 1995 CMA Awards ceremony.The song appears in Wim Wenders's 1976 film Im Lauf der Zeit (In the Course of Time; English title Kings of the Road). It is also played at the beginning of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild (2007), Traveller (1997), and Swingers (1996). Miller performs it in the concert film The Big T.N.T. Show. The Proclaimers' version is included in the film The Crossing (1990). Near the end of their official music video, the pair are shown reading a newspaper whose headline is Roger Miller, King of Plugs.Miller's recording appears in an episode of the Super Dave TV show, where Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein) sings along while sitting at a piano mounted on top of his tour bus. The bus eventually goes into a low tunnel, slamming into the piano and Osborne and pushing them off the bus and onto the ground.A send-up version by English entertainer Billy Howard was a British chart hit in 1976.A German take by the band Wise Guys exists, the parody referring to speeding on the Autobahn.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596634 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Instructional,Wedding. Score. 6 pages. Juan Maria Solare #6681313. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596634). Juan María Solare: Show Me the Path. piano solo Neoclassical music. Optimistic, warm, melodic, tranquil. Show me the path to where? - Towards self-realisation? - Towards the roots? - Towards a happy future? The reality was much more prosaic: what inspired this title was a mere commercial advertisement that pretended to sell me the path to gaining thousands of followers in a few days. This prompted my sceptical response. It is thus demonstrated that everything, even the banal, can be profitable and an inspiration source. This 3:10 piano prelude was composed on 7 May 2021 in Bremen, Germany. A recording of Show Me the Path, by the composer at the piano, was released through the label frtyfve (which licenced it from Janus Music & Sound, the artist's own label). 'Show me the Path' reached 'number one', i.e. It was placed at the top of Apple Music's playlist Piano Chill in the last days of December 2021. To this day, it remains on this playlist, where it receives more than 10,000 daily streams. https://open.spotify.com/track/5IdWQ6cbhF4ZZNjkU8hV3MShow Me the Path [Muéstrenme el sendero] piano solo Música neoclásica. Optimista, cálida, melódica, tranquila. Muéstrenme el sendero ¿hacia dónde? - ¿hacia la realización personal? - ¿hacia las raíces? - ¿hacia un futuro venturoso? La realidad fue mucho más prosaica: lo que inspiró este título fue un mero anuncio comercial que pretendía venderme el camino hacia obtener miles de seguidores en pocos días. Lo cual motivó mi respuesta escéptica. Quede demostrado así que de todo, hasta de lo banal, puede obtenerse inspiración. Este preludio para piano, cuya duración es de 3:10, fue compuesto el 7 de mayo de 2021 en Bremen, Alemania. Una grabación de Show Me the Path, con el compositor al piano, fue lanzada a través del sello frtyfve (que la licenció de Janus Music & Sound, el propio sello del artista). 'Show me the Path' alcanzó el 'número uno', es decir, fue ubicado al comienzo de la playlist Piano Chill de Apple Music en los últimos días de diciembre de 2021. Al día de hoy, continúa en esta playlist, donde recibe más de 10.000 streams diarios. https://open.spotify.com/track/5IdWQ6cbhF4ZZNjkU8hV3M #spotify #músicaparapiano #pianomusic #relaxingmusic #piano #pianist #pianista #pianolove #relajante #musicarelax #frtyfve #AppleMusic

Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.917395 Composed by GregoryFritze. 20th Century,Contemporary,Jazz. Score and parts. 195 pages. Musica Nova USA #4805407. Published by Musica Nova USA (A0.917395). La Tomatina was composed in 1996 in Buñol, Spain while I was researching Spanish band music. Buñol is a small town of about 9,000 inhabitants about 19 miles (30 kilometers) from Spain’s 3rd largest city, Valencia. For 364 days of the year, it is a typical small town, but on the last Wednesday of August it becomes an international attraction. On that day the La Tomatina festival is held. Several trucks drop as many as 145,000 kilograms of tomatoes unto the main street and for an hour at 12:00 noon there are up to 100,000 people taking part in throwing tomatoes at each other. At 1:00 everybody goes to the specialpublic showers to wash up. A fire truck comes down the street washing down the buildings and the main street and by about 2:00 all is returned to normal and all references to the tomato fight are gone. Thetradition has been going on since 1945. I was in the streets taking part in throwing tomatoes for three years. After that when I was in Spain during the festival I watched it on TV.Buñol also has a rich tradition of having two very good concert bands – the Litros and the Feos. Most of the 9,000 inhabitants formally belong to one of the two social clubs. There are several band competitionsheld in Spain and both of these bands take part. The band competition is fierce as bragging rights are won by the winning society. It is thought that this fierce competition is what helps develop excellentmusicians in that many young people become professional musicians and play in many orchestras and bands throughout the country.La Tomatina was premiered by the U. S. Army Band Pershing’s Own on the U. S. Capital steps in June 1996, the composer conducting. La Tomatina is the second movement of Sinfonía de Valencia, a three- movement composition that was premiered in Buñol by the band of Centro Instructivo Musical El Litro Buñol, conducted by Francisco Tamarit in August 1997. Sinfonía de Valencia is recorded by the band of Centro Instructivo Musical El Litro Buñol, conducted by Fernando Bonete Piqueras on Mark Records (CD3816). La Tomatina is also on Youtube with video of the festival at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbpZU7vK3PQ.La Tomatina was a winning composition in 1996, awarded a grant by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. It also won the IBLA Grand Prize in Sicily, Italy in 1998 and was a Semi Finalist as part of the American Prize Composition Competition – Band Division in 1996.This arrangement of La Tomatina was prepared especially for conductor Natalia Montañés in 2004. In thisarrangement there are four percussionists instead of the original five.La Tomatina has been very popular among bands around the world, performed over one hundred times.

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.962409 Composed by Salvador Rojo Gamón. Arranged by Salvador Rojo Gamón. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. 24 pages. Salvador Rojo-Gamon #6050685. Published by Salvador Rojo-Gamon (A0.962409). It is an arrangement of my work Time for Soprano soloist and Piano. The work is complete, unfortunately, you only can enjoy the audio in the full version. I hope to fix this ASAP.TimeThis work has been done during coronavirus. It is my way to complain about the comportment of the human being. It is clear work, without ostentations, trying to be easy, simple, and the most importantly honest. It is composed for Choir SATB & Strings. It has form movements being the last as large as the other three. The lyrics are simple without pretension and with a homely message.Lyrics:People, it’s time. Straight out from the ample worlds.The Society falls deep  Deep as does my Planet.  People, it’s time. Beyond, beyond, beyond the walls.Beyond, beyond, beyond of worlds.Life is defined.Beyond the walls, life.Beyond the worlds, life.People, it’s time.What more could you ask for?You complain you complain about lack of empathy.

Trumpet Duet Trumpet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1088949 Composed by Eddie Lewis. Classical,Contemporary,Instructional. Score. 4 pages. Tiger Music #693161. Published by Tiger Music (A0.1088949). Give your students something modern to work on. Joy, Joy, Everyone Is Flying trumpet duet uses a modern compositional technique. Joy, Joy Everyone Is Flying trumpet duet is actually part of my recent modern composition series. The idea was to see if I could write one of those compositions for trumpet duet with Trumpet Tyro limitations. Being composed from a nontraditional technique, Joy, Joy, Everyone Is Flying does not sound like the typical “do re mi� beginner band music. As an educational piece, it serves as a wonderful opportunity to expose the students to exotic sounds. The piece begins like a traditional imitative piece, but you soon hear a non-traditional modality. That modality is emphasized in the B section with grace notes that give it an eastern hint. Joy, Joy, Everyone Is Flying is a short duet, lasting under a minute. This is because it is written for students who were beginners only months ago. Other Duet Books I have published similar duets to this one in my two other duet books for this level. The first and most popular is Celebrations which has trumpet duets for all skill levels. The second, which has some of the Celebrations duets, is called Twenty Trumpet Tyro Duets. In the trumpet community we use duets as educational tools. They are a wonderful way to expose students to counterpoint, different harmonies and different rhythmic ideas. By including more of the modern duets in the easier duet books, the younger students have an opportunity to experience non-traditional music in what is essentially a chamber music environment. The Experimental Music Series I’ve published a number of these experimental works for trumpet and brass instrumentations. The newer ones were in response to the popularity of the fishing suites. I had gone years without writing any of these compositions and wanted to apply the techniques to trumpet trio. The fishing suites are a suite of suites, each suite being dedicated to a different composition technique. Of those three suites, Catch Suite is the one that uses the same technique as Joy, Joy, Everyone Is Flying. Other compositions utilizing this compositional technique include The Lotus Eater and Voice of the Prophets. SKILL LEVEL The skill level for Joy, Joy, Everyone Is Flying is Trumpet Tyro. Trumpet Tyro is the second of seven levels in our system. This is music for trumpet students with a range up to fourth space E. The music in this level is limited to three flats or sharps. We almost bumped this piece up into the Trumpet Player level because of all the accidentals, but eventually decided to keep it in the Trumpet Tyro level. Technically, the accidentals all fall within acceptable keys for this level, so we kept it at the lower level. That said, because it is non-traditional, it will take a little longer to learn. The melodic sounds will not come as readily as the traditional “do re mi� stuff. Practice Recommendations Listening to the recording is a very important part of learning something with new sounds. You want to be able to hear those sounds. Here’s an interesting bit of trivia for you… When I am using one of these original compositional techniques, I know when I’ve made a mistake because I can hear that it sounds different. I believe this is the sign of a technique that works. If there’s a mistake, the composer should be able to hear that there’s something wrong. Well, performing music that utilizes these sorts of non-traditional techniques goes far better when the performers can also hear the music that way.

Concert band - Digital Download SKU: IZ.CBW205-S Composed by Judith Katz. Score. 15 pages. Imagine Music - Digital #CBW205-S. Published by Imagine Music - Digital (IZ.CBW205-S). 9 x 12 in inches.Long before the tragic sinking of the Medusa, was the sinking of the French ship, The Medusa. The frigate Medusa was completed in 1806, launched in 1810, and saw action in the Napoleonic wars. In 1816, it set sail from French to its ultimate location in Senegal to repossess it from the British. Along with cargo, there were almost 400 people on board. What no one knew, however, was that there was an incompetent captain on board with dubious skills.The ship was caught in a storm off the coast of Mauritania. After being damaged from hitting rocks and multiple attempts to relaunch it, it couldn't move. Soon, it was discovered that there was a shortage of lifeboats. Most of the crew and some of the passengers made their way to the lifeboats, saving about 250 people. That left about 149 others on board. Crew members left on board scrambled to build a raft for the others. The raft was launched and tied to one of the lifeboats. The hope was that everyone would make it to land, almost 60 miles away. The horror came, when the captain ordered the raft to be cut loose, claiming, that it was slowing everyone else down. That left the raft survivors to their own devices.Multiple days at sea brought on starvation, death and disease. People starved to death, and acts of desperation came about, such as the weak, but alive, being thrown overboard, and even cannibalism. Many days later, when survivors were finally rescued, there were only 15 people left alive, with 5 of them dying soon afterwards. News of the disaster quickly reached France, where both the government and the people were thoroughly outraged. Newspapers covered the disaster, and eventually there were trials prosecuting the captain and the crew for negligence. This can be considered as the first documented sea disaster. In 1818, 27 year- old Theodore Gericault was so moved by this disaster, that he painted his masterpiece, The Raft of The Medusa. To this day, the painting, which is enormous in size and almost the size of the raft itself, hangs in the Louvre. This is my first attempt at program music. It was my hope that I captured the mood, the feeling, and above all, in all good program music, that my composition told the story.

Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.923852 By George Shearing. By Hoagy Carmichael. Arranged by Steve William Lussing. Jazz. Score and parts. 5 pages. S. W. Lussing #3126013. Published by S. W. Lussing (A0.923852). Many venerable songs were written in the age before computers and midi synthesizers. A musical score or lead sheet was intended to be interpreted for style and tempo, and while some of those interpretations may not necessarily have been wrong, quite often they weren't always what the author intended, but face it, it's just plain hard to write music exactly in the way that the song is intended to be sung. Enter the computer age, and the ability for performers to understand that the interval of a note is an absolute time interval which puts the natural rhythm, or beat, of a musical arrangement at about 25% faster than a beat per second, which is why I arrange music to be performed at ~ 80 BPM, which means, approximately 80 beats per minute. That is not etched in stone, but it does represent the comfort zone to which the performer should subscribe when singing or playing a song. Contemporary jazz singers are, in my opinion, therefore obligated to re-arrange the songs that they intend to record, to avoid the embarrassment of getting it wrong. It happens. Timing is of the essence.  Many of those old jazz classics are well served with a rewrite for the contemporary artist.The Nearness of You was written in 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Ned Washington, and was performed in the 1938 Paramount movie, Romance in the Dark, by Gladys Swarthout of the Metropolitan Opera.  It has been recorded numerous times over the years, and it maintains its popularity today.  The guitar chording for this arrangement is targeted toward the experienced and more advanced players, but I encourage the experienced intermediate level player to take up the challenge of learning to play this song.  It will be a rewarding experience.

Brass Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1049261 Composed by Friedrich von Flotow. Arranged by F. Leslie Smith. Classical,Pop,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 18 pages. Sweetwater Brass Press #653628. Published by Sweetwater Brass Press (A0.1049261).      The first performance of "Martha, or The Market at Richmond," a romantic comic opera by the German composer Friedrich von Flotow, took place in Vienna in 1847. Subsequent presentations were performed in a number of other languages, including Hungarian, Czech, English and Italian. Two of the most memorable arias from Martha are “The Last Rose of Summer” and “Ach! so fromm.” “Last Rose” was, of course, based on the poem by Thomas Moore. “Ach! So fromm,” known more familiarly by its Italian lyric, “M'appari, tutt'amor,” was an original composition by Flotow, a piece he had composed for an earlier opera and inserted into Act 3 of Martha as Lyonel’s tenor solo.      In 1955, The Crew Cuts, a Canadian pop singing group, recorded a song titled “Mostly Martha.” Written by Dorcas Cochran (words) and Ralph Sterling (music), it charted in early 1956. As so many pop song writers have done, Sterling borrowed the melody from a piece of classical music: “M’appari.” While “M’appari” and “Mostly Martha” share the same melody, the words and sentiment are quite different. Lyonel laments that Martha has left him, while The Crew Cuts jauntily proclaim, “Mostly Martha, Mostly Martha. What has she got? She's got the most.”      This brass quintet arrangement takes a middle ground. It follows closely the basic structure of Flotow’s operatic aria but does so in a sort-of up-tempo manner and with a great deal of variation in the accompaniment. It’s not really The-Crew-Cut-style “She’s got the most,” but it’s certainly more positive than Lyonel’s song of longing. The piece starts with a suggested tempo of 90 bpm, changes to 80 at section C, and speeds up to 92 at the end. All instruments get a turn playing the melody, and there are no really tricky rhythmic patterns. There are, however, grace notes, rallentandos, an “a piacere” and a number of fermatas. All notes are, for the most part, within normal playing range of each of the five instruments, with two exceptions: near the end Trumpet 1 has an A above its staff, followed two measures later by a high B-flat.      Completed in 2022, performance time runs about 2 minutes, 45 seconds. The arranger, Les Smith, will be happy to provide substitute parts (for example, treble clef baritone for trombone) at no charge. He would like to receive your suggestions, comments, corrections and criticisms. Also, purchase of this piece entitles you to your choice of another of his arrangements at no charge; send a copy of your purchase receipt to him directly at lessmith61@bellsouth.net. For more arrangements by Les, enter "Sweetwater Brass Press" (without the quotation marks) in the search box.   (Also, purchase of this piece entitles you to your choice of another of his arrangements at no charge; send a copy of your purchase receipt directly to him at lessmith61@bellsouth.net.)