Songs by Style

Firework Fanfare (Grade .5, FLEX Band)

March of the Monkeys (Grade .5, FLEX Band)

Secret Tunnel (Grade .5, FLEX Band)

Black Hills Gold Rush (Grade 1, Everyone gets melody, lots of percussion)

Catatumbo: The Land of Lightning (Grade 1, Everyone gets melody, lots of percussion)

New Horizons (Grade 1, short lyrical section included)

Pueblo Chants (Grade 1, Lots of Percussion, each part plays only 4-8 measures, parts are heavily layered)

Red Sky in the Morning Sailor's Warning (Grade 1, Everyone gets the melody, lots of percussion, song is connected thematically with Red Sky at Night Sailor's Delight)

Uncharted (Grade 1, Lyrical Center section)

Uncharted Launch (Grade .5, Same as Uncharted but without the lyrical section)

Candyland Sweet (Grade 2-2.5, Each movement features a different section, lots of percussion)

Western Sketches (Grade 2.5, Everyone gets melody, lots of percussion)

Altered Perspectives (Grade 3, Multimeter (7/8), lots of percussion)

Mice in a Maze (Grade 4, Multimeter (7/8), lots of percussion)

Phases Dance of the Lunar Cycle (Grade 4, lots of percussion)

Unicorn Lullabye (Grade .5 FLEX Band)

Long Distance (Grade 1, Everyone gets the melody, small percussion section)

Red Sky at Night Sailor's Delight (Grade .5, Everyone gets the melody), lots of percussion)

Finding Peace (Grade 1.5, everyone gets the melody)

Children's Prayer (Grade 2, small percussion section)

Cygnus (Grade 2, Waltz conducted as fast 3 or slow 1, works best with large percussion section)

Peony (Grade 2.5, small percussion section)

Taps (Grade 1.5, Chorale setting for the famous bugle melody, no percussion)

Black Hills Gold Rush (Grade 1, written about the famous western gold rush that took place in the region of South Dakota)

Candyland Sweet (Grade 2-2.5, Each movement is a different character from the Candyland Board Game)

Catatumbo: Land of Lightning (Grade 1, written about the mouth of the Catatumbo River where the most lightning strikes occur annually).

Cygnus (Grade 2, written about the constellation of a swan)

Dudleytown (Grade 2.5, Story of a Haunted Ghost Town in Connecticut, lots of tempo/meter changes)

Split Rock Creek Overture (Grade 1, 2, and 3, Multilevel work written for district wide band festival, highlights the history Split Rock Creek in Brandon, South Dakota)

Phantasm (Grade 2, Story of a Haunted House where the ghosts come out at night, lots of percussion)

Phobia (Grade 2.5, Story of a dreamscape that travels through a sequence of fears and nightmares. Lots of tempo/meter changes and lots of percussion)

Altered Perspectives (Grade 3, Inspired by a wire sculpture that presented different images based on which angle you viewed the sculpture, Many tempo/meter changes, lots of percussion)

Mice in a Maze (Grade 4, Story of a mouse navigating a maze filled with mouse traps, lots of tempo/meter changes, uses multimeter (7/8), lots of percussion)

Phases: Dance of the Lunar Cycle (Grade 4, Following the Moon from New Moon to Full Moon and back again, uses multimeter (7/8), lots of tempo/meter changes)