Three pieces appropriate for Black History programs! Grade ½ to 1½, plus and optional flex band arrangement of Lift Every Voice and Sing. Also available as solo with accompaniment bundle here.

This bundle includes piano scores, guitar scores, mp3 accompaniment files, and solo parts for all wind instruments and bells. Solo parts are grade ½ to 1. Full ensemble arrangements are also available here. Each piece is also available separately here. Digital Delivery    

Kum Bah Yah is a setting of the African American Spiritual, with limited range and simple rhythms appropriate for very young bands. Optional piano accompaniment is provided Grade: ½ Key: Bb Range: A – G Time Signature: 4/4 + 2/4 Duration 1:00              

Kum Bah Yah is an instrumental solo setting  with piano, guitar, or mp3 accompaniment of the African American Spiritual, with limited range and simple rhythms appropriate for young soloists. Parts included for all wind instruments and bells. Arrangements for young concert band are available here. Digital Delivery. Grade: ½ Key: Bb Range: Bb – G […]

A Ceremonial March is a stately march, appropriate appropriate for concert, festival, or commencement ceremonies. It is playable by the youngest of bands, and can be used to teach march style. Grade: ½ Key: Bb Range: Bb – G Rhythms: No dotted rhythms, no syncopation Duration 1:30      

A three-part flex band piece written with the youngest players in mind! Lyrical and expressive, with limited range, and rhythms limited to whole, half, and quarter notes. Grade ½ Key: B♭ Range: A – G Duration 1:15     Instrumentation PART I PART II PART III PERCUSSION Flute Clarinet Bassoon Bells Oboe Alto Saxophone Bass […]

  County Fair is a waltz, appropriate for concert or festival. It is playable by the youngest of bands, and can be used to teach waltz style.  Grade: ½ Key: Bb Range: A – G Concert (trumpets and flutes A – A concert, bells Bb – Bb) Rhythms: quarter notes and rests, half notes, dotted half […]

Emergence is uses only the first five notes of the Bb Concert scale, and the meter alternates between 4/4 and 6/8 throughout. After a few rehearsals, young students will begin to feel the pattern. The piece is intended to evoke imagery of growth, such as the budding flowers or the emerging musicianship demonstrated in their spring […]

  Elementary Solos, Volume 1 , Volume 2, and Elementary Ensembles Volume 1 available Ranges limited so that students can focus on rhythmic accuracy, tone quality, dynamics, and expression. Rhythms are limited to whole, dotted half, half, quarter, and paired eighth notes. Rhythms that even the youngest musicians can count! No syncopation! Each piece is about […]

  A bundle including Elementary Duets Vol. 1 and Elementary Trios Vol. 1 Ranges limited so that students can focus on rhythmic accuracy, tone quality, dynamics, and expression. Rhythms are limited to whole, dotted half, half, quarter, and paired eighth notes. Rhythms that even the youngest musicians can count! No syncopation! Each piece is about one […]

A collection of  six trios written with the youngest players in mind! Ranges limited so that students can focus on rhythmic accuracy, tone quality, dynamics, and expression. Rhythms are limited to whole, dotted half, half, quarter, and paired eighth notes. Rhythms that even the youngest musicians can count! No syncopation! Each piece is about one minute […]

Second edition – two new pieces added! A collection of six duets written with the youngest players in mind! Ranges limited so that students can focus on rhythmic accuracy, tone quality, dynamics, and expression. Rhythms are limited to whole, dotted half, half, quarter, and paired eighth notes. Rhythms that even the youngest musicians can count! No […]