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Best Grade 3 Concert Band Literature 1/3/2009

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Piece Title Composer Last Composer First arranger last,f Publisher Grade Special features Total Votes Additional Translates Mature Emotional Teaches as Popularity Style(s) Req. Insts Smartmusic Endorsement
Air for Band Erickson Frank BOU Grade 3 Lyrical 2 teaching pack Lyrical 2, 7
Balladair Erickson Frank BOU Grade 3 Lyrical 2 Lyrical 2, 7
Chant and Jubilo McBeth W. Francis Southern MC Grade 3 Commissioned in Texas, FL Gr. 4 1 10 8 7 4 8 McBeth 2, LC
Fanfare Ode and Festival Margolis Manhattan BM Grade 3 1 Young Band Score analysis 37, LC
Polly
Po lly Oliver Root
Root Thomas Kjos
Kjos Grade
Grade 3 Clar so
Clar solo
lo, exposed FH'
FH's
s 1 8 8 8 3 many Triangle
Triangle, 37, LC
A Little Night and Day Music Adler Samuel Carl Fischer Grade 3 EC
Amazing Grace Himes, William Winwood Music Grade 3
American Riversongs La Plante Pierre Daehn Publications Grade 3 FL Gr. 4, trumpet solo, AS solo 8 8 8 4 EC
An Occasional Suite, An Handel G.F. Osterling, E. Ludwig Grade 3 FBA
Bell Qui Tiens Ma Vie Arbeau Margolis MAB Grade 3 FBA
Bridgewater Breeze Gorb Adam Moecenas MP Grade 3 WB,
Caccia Dello Joio Norman Belwin Grade 3
Canterberry Chorale Van der Roost Jan DeHaske Grade 3 EC
Country Bandstand Syler James J. Ballerbach Music Grade 3 3 movements
Courtly
Cour tly Airs
Airs and Dances
Dances Nelson
Nelson Ron Ludwig
Ludw ig Grade 3 6 Movements
Movements
Dier' in De Barker Warren Barnhouse Grade 3
Down Longford Way Grainger Percy Osmon, Leroy RBC Grade 3 EC
Dusk Bryant Stephen Gorilla Salad Grade 3
Earl of Salisbury, The Byrd William Frackenpohl MAST Grade 3 FBA
Flourish (for wind band) Williams Ralph Vaughan Oxford MP Grade 3 Fanfare Antiphonal 8 Med 3 WB, EC
Gift to be Simple, The Brisman Heskel EV Grade 3 FBA
Ginger Marmlade Benson Warren Carl Fischer Grade 3 Over the barline Clapping, exposed writing 9 4 Timpani, triangle
God of our Fathers: A Chorale Erickson Frank FEP Grade 3 Exposed t-bones
Grant Them Rest Faure G. Buehlman SP Grade 3 FBA
Highbridge Excursions
Highbridge Excursions Williams
Williams Mark Alfred
Alfred Grade 3
Grade 2 Movements
Movements EC
Kentucky 1800 Grundman Clare Boosey and Hawkes Grade 3 FBA
Kenya Contrasts Himes Williams Curnow Grade 3 EC
Little English Suite Grundman Clare Boosey and Hawkes Grade 3 Exposed AS, FL, 9 8 7 3 timpani, LC
Little Mystery Music Holsinger David R. TRN Music Grade 3
Loch Lomond Ticheli, Frank Manhattan BM Grade 3
Lyric Music Starer Robert Manhattan BM Grade 3 EC
Mini Suite Gould Morton Hal Leonard Grade 3 FBA
Mosaic Paulus Stephen BandQuest Grade 3
Mystery on Mena Mountain Giroux-West Julie Southern Grade 3
Night on Bald Mountain
Mountain Mussorgsky Modest Williams, Mark Alfred Grade 3 Tambourine LS
LS,
Old Scottish Melody Wiley Jim TRN Music Grade 3
On a Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss Holsinger David TRN Grade 3 Classic Lyrical Need solid clarinet section 7 Lyrical 4 feel Triangle
Overture for Winds Carter Charles Bourne Grade 3 High Emotional payoff for work Exposed writing, need Solid Euphoniums 8 FBA,
Peregrin- A traveller's Tale Akey Douglas QNWD Grade 3 2,
Pie Jesu Faure G. Freedman SP Grade 3 FBA
Prarie Dances Holsinger David TRN Grade 3 Triple meter 8 Fast 6 Gong, Temple blocks WB, EC
Prelude and Fugue in Bb Bach J.S. Moehlmann Warner Bros. Grade 3 Access to Bach, Good phrasing study, 7 4 FBA, WB
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Ravensgate Strommen Carl Alfred Grade 3 French Horn Intensive, limited percussion
Reminiscence Moore David W. Grand Mesa Grade 3
Resting in the Peace of His Gibson John Southern Grade 3
Rhapsody on American Shape-Note Curnow James Hal Leonard Grade 3
Rhenish Folk Festival Davis Albert Oliver Ludwig Grade 3 Med 3
Shenandoah
Shenandoah Ticheli, Frank
Ticheli Frank Manhattan BM Grade 3
Sinfonia XVII Broege Timothy MAB Grade 3
Southwinds Court Douglas Curnow Grade 3 march in middle Clars, SD LC
Suite Divertimento Gilbert Jay W. Southern Grade 3 3 Movements
Sun Dance Ticheli Frank Manhattan BM Grade 3
Symphonic Overture Carter Charles Carl Fischer Grade 3
Symphonie Jadin Louis E. Schaefer Shawnee Grade 3 Access to Jadin, Very classical Exposed writing, need solid clarinet 6 3.5 Classical 3 WB, EC
The Ash Grove Brisman Heskel Theodore Presser Grade 3 FBA
The Band Song Schumann William Merion Music Grade 3
The Renaissance Fair Margolis Bob Manhattan BM Grade 3 3 Movements
Three Ayres From Glouster
Glouster Stuart
Stuart Hugh
Hu gh M. Shawnee Press Grade 3 Teaching
Teaching Pak
Three Ayres From Sussex Stuart Hugh M. Shawnee Press Grade 3
Three Sketches Grundman Clare Boosey and Hawkes Grade 3 3 Movements EC
Toccata for Band Erickson Frank Bourne Grade 3 Limited exposed, Mod. High Emotional content Need strong clars and French horns, trumpets 8 Erickson timpani WB, EC
Two Baroque Ayres Erickson Frank FEP Grade 3 2 mvts Slow and Fast 9
Two Gaelic Folk Songs Tyra Thomas Barnhouse Grade 3 FH, OB, solos 9 9 8 2.5 triangle LC
Walls of Zion Danner Gregory Daehn Publications Grade 3
Yorkshire Ballad Barnes James Southern MC Grade 3 High Emotional payoff for work Teaching Pak 2, FBA, LC2
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