Slow Tunes

JM45589 1861 - Parts & Score

Categories: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes, Wind Band Catalogue - Sacred Music
Composer: Jonathan Newman

1861
1861 is a lyric hymn/fantasia for young concert bands, based on the beautiful 19th century Anglican hymn “Lead Me, Lord” (written in 1861 by Charles Sebastian Wesley). The hymn itself features a gorgeous melodic line over biting harmonies and striking counterpoint, and provides the pillars for this work. First is a soloistic treatment, followed with a dramatic full band tutti, and finally a section of evocative humming. Throughout are unique textures and colorful improvisitory accompaniments.

JM45635 ACROSTIC SONG - Parts & Score

Category: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes
Composer: David Del Del Tredici
Arranger: Mark Spede

from FINAL ALICE
This moving piece is the lullaby-like concluding aria from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici's Final Alice, the fifth of six large works for soprano and orchestra based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. This arrangement for band is designed to be playable by a wide variety of groups, appropriate for large or small ensembles. The gentle melody, heartrending harmonies, and artful instrumental voicing give this piece a truly timeless feel. (6:00)

JM49782 ADAGIETTO - Parts & Score

Categories: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes, Wind Band Catalogue - New & Recent Titles
Composer: Jacob De Haan

Grade 2.0
Duration 2.00

With Adagietto Jacob de Haan demonstrates his ability to write in all kinds of styles. A sense of pure calm emanates from the flowing main melody. The tasteful orchestration fully supports the harmonic suspense as the piece progresses towards a fantastic climax at the end.

JM45629 AIR FROM COUNTY DERRY - Parts & Score

Category: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes
Arranger: Joseph Kreines

This striking orchestration of the Northern Irish melody that underlies the song “Danny Boy” offers intermediate bands an opportunity to explore the tune's soaring beauty through colorful phrasing and rich harmonic motion. The melody is passed around to each section, creating a true ensemble work. (3:20)

JM44854 AMAZING GRACE - WB Parts & Score

Category: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes
Composer / arranger: Frank Ticheli

Superb setting of this all time great tune. - Grade 3.
Frank Ticheli wanted his setting of AMAZING GRACE to reflect the powerful simplicity
of the words and melody - to be sincere, to be direct, to be honest - and not through the use of novel harmonies and clever tricks, but by traveling traditional paths in search of truth and authenticity.

I believe that music has the power to take us to a place that words alone cannot. And so my own feelings about "Amazing Grace" reside in this setting itself. The harmony, texture, orchestration, and form are inseparable, intertwined so as to be perceived as a single expressive entity.

The spiritual, "Amazing Grace," was written by John Newton (1725-1807), a slaveship captain who, after years of transporting slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, suddenly saw through divine grace the evilness of his acts. First published in 1835 by William Walker in The Southern Harmony, "Amazing Grace" has since grown to become one of the most beloved of all American spirituals.

JM45397 AMAZING GRACE - Parts & Score

Category: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes
Arrangers: Luther Henderson, Paul Murtha

Grade 4.
Canadian Brass Concert Band
Master arranger Luther Henderson created many of the signature arrangements performed by the Canadian Brass, including this classic. Paul Murtha has authentically adapted Luther's version for concert band with this well-crafted arrangement.

JM46869 AMAZING GRACE - Parts & Score

Category: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes
Arranger: William Himes

Already famous in its original brass band version.

JM49765 AMERICAN HYMN - Parts & Score

Category: Wind Band Catalogue - Slow Tunes
Composer: William Schuman

Grade 3.5