Correlated Band Music for Book 1
Primus
can be performed after page 9
can also be performed after page 15 of the Primer
"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.
Name That Christmas Carol
can be performed after page 10
"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.
Christmas Surprise
can be performed after page 12
"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.
Prestige (March)
can be performed after page 13
"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.
Geology: The Study of Rock
can be performed after page 15
"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.
Festival Chorale and March
can be performed after page 16
"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.
Achievement (Chorale and March)
can be performed after page 17
"Achievement" is a chorale and march using the first 7 notes found in most beginning Band methods.
Conquest
can be performed after page 18
This true festival-style piece for beginning Band uses limited notes and rhythms, but is very creatively written. Your youngest students will feel like they are playing serious music, as the piece is bold, aggressive, and sounds far more difficult than it plays.
Variations on a Theme by Grieg
can be performed after page 18
"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.
Sentinel
can be performed after page 21
"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.
A Natural Blues
can be performed after page 22
"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.
Honor March
can be performed after page 22
"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.
Reflections
can be performed after page 25
"Reflections" combines chorale-style playing with contemporary harmonies. It is a perfect piece to reinforce the teaching of phrasing and overall musical performance.
Shaker Settings
can be performed after page 26
"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.
Christmas Stomp
can be performed after page 27
"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.
Flourish
can be performed after page 30
"Flourish" is a great concert opener or closer. This fanfare style piece is perfect for contests and festivals and excellent for teaching form.
Antiphony
can be performed after page 31
"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.
Fanfare Acclamations
can be performed after page 31
"Fanfare Acclamations" is a contest style piece that is bold and energetic. As the title implies it begins with a bold maestoso fanfare with punctuating percussion that leads to the active main theme in an up-tempo allegro.
Impressions
can be performed after page 31
"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.
Legends
can be performed after page 31
"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.
Talons of Fire
can be performed after page 31
"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.
Elite (March)
can be performed after page 33
"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 important style that students should learn to play. The form of this composition includes the traditional modulation to the subdominant at the Trio
Fleur-de-lis March
can be performed after page 33
"Fleur-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 important style that the students should learn to play. The form of this composition includes the traditional modulation to the subdominant at the Trio.
The Ash Grove
can be performed after page 35
Designed to give your best Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium, or Tuba player an opportunity to play a solo with Band accompaniment. It should serve as the culmination of study for the soloist upon completion of “The Yamaha Advantage” Book 1. The piece has all of the solo material cued in the Band, so if a soloist is not available, the piece can be performed with Band alone.
Genesis
can be performed after page 35
"Genesis" is a contest style piece that can be used as the culmination of study at the end of "The Yamaha Advantage 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!
Jupiter (Full Band or Solo with Band)
can be performed after page 35
"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.
Symphony No.1 Theme
can be performed after page 35
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.
Band-o-rama (March)
This delightful March was designed with combined performances of beginning, intermediate, and high school Bands in mind. The composition is available in two versions; one for high school Band and one with parts for both beginning and intermediate Bands. While each publication can be performed separately, combining them for a mass Band concert will absolutely bring the house down!