This contains 14 new, never-before published compositions and arrangements correlated to Book 1 of the Yamaha Band Student. --

Yamaha Band Ensembles provide interesting repertoire selections in an amazingly flexibly format that will meet the needs of your band year after year, regardless of how your group's instrumentation varies. Each piece can be performed as a solo or ensemble by any combination of same or mixed instruments. Each ensemble also correlates with a specific page in the Yamaha Band Student.

Composed or arranged by Frank Erickson, John Kinyon and John O'Reilly, this exciting collection includes 14 never-before-published selections correlated to specific pages in the Yamaha Band Student, Book 1. Presented in a variety of styles, these full band pieces will captivate students and audiences alike and will continue to motivate young bands year after year!

Yamaha Christmas Ensembles utilize the same flexible format of the successful Yamaha Band Ensembles and contains 19 delightful arrangements of Christmas favorites. Arranged in order of difficulty, the carols span approximately the same level as Books 1 and 2 of the Yamaha Band Student. Page correlations are also included. Titles: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Deck the Halls * Go Tell It on the Mountain * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman * Good King Wenceslas * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * In the Bleak Mid-Winter * It Came Upon a Midnight Clear * Jingle Bells * Jolly Old St. Nicholas * Lo, How a Rose * O Come, Little Children * O Come, O Come Emmanuel * Silent Night * Up on the Housetop * We Three Kings * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks.

Duets for All enables any two instruments to play duets. Not only may two like-instruments such as two flutes play together, but two dissimilar instruments such as violin and tuba may perform all of the duets. The duets cover a wide range of styles and music from baroque through contemporary eras, and they range in difficulty from grades 1 through 4. Titles: * March (Prokofiev) * Allegro (Mozart) * Dance (Kabalevsky) * Andante and Allegro (Stoutamire) * Leaping (Kabalevsky) * Ecossaise (Beethoven) * A Farewell (Purcell) * Song of the North (Grieg) * March of the Tin Soldiers (Tschaikowsky) * Allegretto (Corelli) * The Mechanical Doll (Shostakovich) * The Adventures of Ivan (Khatchaturian) * Bouree (Handel) * Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt) * Ballet of the Chicks (Moussorgsky)

This invaluable collection features rhythm drills and etudes and applies them to six full band arrangements. Some of the unique features include: an emphasis on musical passages containing a wide variety of rests, prep rhythm drills with suggestions for their use, etudes that can be played as a solo, or, when used with a companion etude, as a duet; an emphasis on changing eighth-note rhythms (5/8, 7/8 etc.) and a full band selection at the end of each unit reinforcing the newly learned rhythms and patterns.