Book Description

Looking for music to utilize as an alternative to requiring your full band to play for a graduation ceremony? Are you asked to provide music for graduation ceremonies at lower grade levels other than senior graduation? If so, you can easily program this arrangement with other ensemble music. Focus on a small brass ensemble or the brass section of your band. This work will be loved by everyone. This arrangement of The Grand March from Verdi's opera Aida is intended to accompany and complement Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 4. They are the popular, recognizable, and traditional prelude and recessional works played at graduation ceremonies. This work could easily be used before or after the graduates' promenade, or during the ceremony as a featured work. The arrangement is scored for brass quintet (2 trumpets, Horn, and 2 trombones). However, it includes parts for Tuba and T.C. Baritone. The Horn in F part doubles the 2nd Trombone and Tuba and T.C. Baritone double the 3rd Trombone providing flexibility of use. The range in the first trumpet part extends once to a high C. This arrangement is in Concert Key of Bb Major with a short contrasting section in Db. It is a relatively easy arrangement, playable by capable middle level and high school players as a quintet or a brass ensemble with varied number of performers. The purchaser of this volume is free to make copies of the parts for rehearsal and performance purposes. So, once you've prepared the parts for the first rehearsal/performance, file this volume away and it will be there, complete, without missing parts, for years to come. Scroll below to videos to see and hear the score as played in Finale.