ArmyBandsman

Friends of the marching show world: Your pieces have been submitted, and no more will be taken. Unfortunately, as you all well know, no one will be putting any full-out planning into place until the spring. The pieces have been reviewed, and the winner, if there is one, will be notified sometime in May. *PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR PIECE IS ONLY GOING INTO A POOL OF PIECES, AND MAY NOT BE SELECTED FOR A FIELD PERFORMANCE*

It seems that there are not very many composers around here who venture into the world of field shows. The top 3 in this competition will have their selections put into the planning for several of 2009's field bands. If selected for any of the actual shows, the winner will have full recognition at the competitions, and recieve one DVD recording of the band at the final competition. RULES: 1. The selection may be an opener, ballad, or closer. 2. The selection will use full marching band instrumentation, with AT LEAST the specified number of instrument parts. Feel free to add more if you so desire. Piccolo Flute 2 Clarinets BassClarinet 2 Alto, 1 Tenor, and 1 Bari Sax 2 Mellophones (French Horn) 2 trumpets 2 Trombones 1 Baritone 1 Tuba Marimba Xylophone Timpani Snare Quads 5-line on-field basses Cymbals 3. The selection will be at least 2:30 in length. 4. The selection may be an arrangement or original composition. 5. There is no guideline on the content of the selection. If you want to arrange "Mary Had A Little Lamb" for marching band, go for it. One of the coolest pieces I ever heard was a marching arrangement of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". 6. Email finished products to wesley.day1@yahoo.com. 7. Deadline for completed works is December 15. 8. Go. *If you need examples, Look for "September", "What the World Needs Now", and "Hip to be Square" in the jazz forum and the incomplete works forum.*

It's all about Czardas.

Hell yeah dude. Legend has it that Creston wrote it whilst tripping his balls off; not sure if I totally believe that...but it's truly an amazing piece.

Marching arrangement of "Hip to be Square". See if you can find the rip-off from the Cavaliers 2003 show, "Spin Cycle". You'll notice an ".xml" attachment. This allows you to view the file in whichever version of Finale you have. Simply open Finale, go to the file menu, select "Music XML", click "IMport", and browse for the file. Hip.mus

Condense it, put a drumline to it, you've got a killer marching show closer.

Stands tune arrangement of Earth, WInd and Fire's "September". Close to finished, but not quite. Be sure not to listen to the MIDI through Windows Media. Open it in Finale as a MIDI. I saved the staves as separate tracks, so they'll come out sounding like they should. September.mid

Brass choir arrangement of the popular hymn. Be Thou My Vision.mid

For those of you who haven't got Finale 2008 or 2009. The .mus file is right under the MIDI if you've got 08 or 09. The MIDI sounds like straight crap if you haven't got that figured out by now. be sure to open the MIDI in Finale so you're not misguided by the God-awful cacophany that is the MIDI. The%20Water%20Is%20Wide%20%28presentation%29[1].MID The Water Is Wide (presentation).MUS

Even if the chords sound familiar, no one can copyright a chord progression. If they do in fact exist, take it upon yourself to mold them into something 10 times better! By the way, those would sound AWESOME if you played around with different inversions.

The passage into manhood for any trombone player...what does anyone else think about it?

This is a brass choir arrangement of the popular folk song, "The Water is Wide". The Water Is Wide (presentation).MUS

This is a marching arrangement of Bacharach's hit, "What the World Needs Now". It has a few minor influences from other various ideas, so if you hear something you think you've heard before, you may be right! Please praise or bash, a good composer is always prepared to take any sort of criticism. What the World Final.MUS What the World.mid