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Conquest
A true "contest" style piece for the beginning band that uses limited note and rhythm resources, but is very creatively written. Your youngest students will feel like they are playing serious music, as the piece is bold, aggressive and sounds more difficult than it plays. This is the type of exceptional music you have come to expect from two of the most popular composers of beginning band music. This piece is correlated to The Yamaha Advantage band method book 1, but can be used with any band program of study.
$50.00 Book 1 Page 18
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Elite March
Elite March is written to introduce the march form and style to young musicians. Playing marches is part of the heritage of the band and is an importance style that students should learn to play. The form of this composition includes the traditional modulation to the subdominant at the Trio.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 33
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Talons of Fire
Talons of Fire is an aggressive, energetic contest style composition that everyone will enjoy performing. It contains bold fanfares, strong percussion interjections and angular rhythms that will be thrilling for students and audience alike.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 31
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Christmas Stomp
Christmas Stomp is a perfect composition for a beginning band’s Christmas Concert. It features three percussion soloists that play on different sounding buckets. The piece is written in a swing style, which will make it more enjoyable to play.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 27
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Honor March
Honor March is written to introduce the March form and style to young musicians. Playing marches is part of the heritage of the band and is an importance style that the students should learn to play.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 22
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Name That Christmas Carol
Name That Christmas Carol, which uses only 6 notes from concert Bb to G, is designed to be an audience participation game that will add some fun to your first Christmas concert.
$45.00 Book 1 Page 10
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Impressions
Impressions is a heartfelt composition in a lyrical style. Beautiful melodies are given numerous orchestrational and harmonic treatments to create a musical journey that will be pleasing to performers and audiences.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 31
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Flourish
Flourish is a great concert opener or closer. This fanfare style piece is perfect for contests and festivals and excellent for teaching form.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 30
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Fleur-de-lis March
Fluer-de-lis March is written to introduce the march form and style to young musicians. Playing marches is part of the heritage of the band and is an importance style that the students should learn to play. The form of this composition includes the traditional modulation to the subdominant at the Trio.
$45.00 Book 1 Page 33
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Legends
Legends is designed to reinforce eighth-note patterns and 3/4 time. The composition is a perfect contest/festival style piece and as the title implies, is reminiscent of swashbuckling heroes.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 31
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Reflections
Reflections combines chorale-style playing with contemporary harmonies. It is a perfect piece to reinforce the teaching of phrasing and overall musical performance.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 24
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Achievement
Achievement is a chorale and march using the first 7 notes found in most beginning band methods.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 17
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Geology: The Study of Rock
Geology: The Study of Rock combines a rock bass line, percussion groove and a melody with a little twist into a fun to play crowd-pleasing composition.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 15
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Genesis
Genesis is a contest style piece that can be used as the culmination of study at the end of The Yamaha Advantage or at the end of any band method book 1. This popular performance piece from the back of book 1 has been requested by directors to be available separately so that they can perform the piece at contest. It is a real winner!
$45.00 Book 1 Page 35
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Symphony No. 1 Theme
The Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 Theme is designed to give your best players an opportunity to play a solo with band accompaniment. This solo is the same one that appears on page 36, book 1 of The Yamaha Advantage® for oboe, bassoon, alto clarinet, tenor saxophone and horn. This arrangement also includes solo parts for Flute, Clarinet and Alto Saxophone. This piece can also be performed by band alone.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 35
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The Ash Grove
The Ash Grove is designed to give your best trumpet, trombone, baritone or tuba player an opportunity to play a solo with band accompaniment. It should serve as the culmination of study for the soloist at the completion of any method book 1. The piece also has all of the solo material cued in the band so if a soloist is not available you can perform this piece with band alone.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 35
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Primus
May be used after page 15 of Primer or after page 9 of Book 1.
Primus has the most limited range and technical demands of any piece in the series. It only uses 5 notes Concert Bb to F and is a great first performance piece.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 9
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Jupiter
Jupiter the famous Gustav Holst composition is arranged for flute or clarinet or alto saxophone soloist with band accompaniment or it can be played by band alone.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 35
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Fanfare Acclamations
Fanfare Acclamations is a contest style piece that is bold and energetic. As the title implies is begins with a bold maestoso fanfare with punctuating percussion that leads to the active main theme in an up-tempo allegro.
$45.00 Book 1 Page 31
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Sentinel
Sentinel is designed to reinforce the key of Eb after the note concert Ab is learned. It contains contemporary harmonies, tuneful melodies and exciting percussion.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 21
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Festival Chorale and March
Festival Chorale and March is design to reinforce newly learned eighth note rhythms and to give students a contest/festival style piece that will improve their musicianship.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 16
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Antiphony
Antiphony is a serious composition that will highlight your budding percussionists. This bold and harmonically progressive piece has an extensive percussion section that is placed antiphonally around the band to give the piece a stereophonic effect.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 31
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Variations on a Theme by Grieg
Variations on a Theme by Grieg is designed to give your best players an opportunity to play a solo with band accompaniment. Using the famous Morning theme from the popular Peer Gynt Suite as the basis, a new composition is created that is a set of variations on this theme.
$45.00 Book 1 Page 18
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Christmas Surprise
Christmas Surprise is a perfect composition for your first Christmas Concert. It only uses the first 7 notes introduced in most beginning band methods; concert Bb to G plus the low A. This arrangement uniquely combines Jingle Bells and Jolly Old Saint Nicholas with Haydn’s Surprise Symphony. It also includes a unique section where the band sings.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 12
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Band-o-rama March
Band-o-rama is a wonderful march designed for combined performance of beginning, intermediate and high school bands. The composition is available in two versions; one for high school band and one with parts for both elementary and intermediate bands. Each publication is designed so it can be performed separately but when you put them together for a mass band concert, it will bring the house down.
PT-YCB06A-00 includes parts for elementary and intermediate bands.
PT-YCB06B-00 includes parts for high school bands.
$40.00 Book 1
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Shaker Settings
Shaker Settings is a combination of two shaker songs Father James’s Song and the famous Simple Gifts. This is a very playable and effective arrangement for contest use.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 26
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A Natural Blues
A Natural Blues is composed in a traditional 12 bar blues form. The use of the A natural is a perfect way to reinforce this note when it is taught.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 22
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Prestige
Prestige is designed to introduce March style and form to the young band. Although it only contains the first 7 notes found in most band methods, Concert A to G, it provides a meaningful march experience.
$40.00 Book 1 Page 13
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