Instrumental Ensembles

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Harknett Music carries a large selection of ensemble materials for
virtually all combinations of instruments. We carry collections, not
limited to those listed below, and individual titles as well.
Contact us for information.

Collections

Three's A Crowd Junior, Bk 1, Bk 2
Arr. by James Power
A flexible series of books designed to encourage young people
to play together in various combinations of numbers and instruments.
Perfect for solo, duet or trio playing, with or without piano
accompaniment for each book Can be used with matching arrgts
of the same material from the same Book Individual books are available
for Flute Clarinet Sax Brass Optional Piano Accpt book with
guitar  chords available. Ideal for group tuition
 

Junior Book - Grade 1 - 1 Band Level
30 easy trios using familiar melodies arranged in classical, folk and jazz styles.
Contains:
Aarons Beard Au Clair de la Lune Big Rock Candy Mountain Boston Belles
Can Can Clementine Dance of the Hours Early One Morning Go Down Moses
Hows Your Father Kum Ba Yah Lavender Blue Lil Liza Jane Little Brown Jug
London Bridge Is Falling Down Looby Loo Mairis Wedding Old MacDonald
O Susanna Quartermasters Stores Skip To My Lou Snap Sur le Pont dAvignon
Highland Lassie Run Around This Old Man Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Yankee Doodle Yellow Bird

Book 1 - Grade 2 - 2 Band Level
19 easy-intermediate trios using familiar melodies arranged in classical,
folk and jazz styles.
Contains:
Country Garden Cutie Flootie God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Happy Farmer
Humoresque Irish Washerwoman Jingle Bells Kerry Dance Lincolnshire Poacher
Mexican Hat Dance Minuet Morning Has Broken Phil the Fluter Sailors Hornpipe
Scheherezade Allegro from Sonata in C major K545 Swan Lake Theme
When the Saints Go Marching In Wild Horseman

Book 2 - Grade 2 - 2 Band Level
19 more easy-intermediate trios using familiar melodies arranged in classical,
folk and jazz styles.
Contains:
Allegro (Mozart) Big Brass Band Bill Bailey Buffalo Gals
Dance of the Little Swans Ding Dong Merrily On High Ecossaise
The Entertainer French Frolic Fur Elise Grandfathers Clock
Greensleeves Minuet (Mozart) O Come All Ye Faithful Pyramids
Radetsky March Rag Doll Traditional Tunes of Scotland Yellow Rose of  Texas

Jazz Play Along Series
Book & CD Package
For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series
is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly
lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included
CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than
ever before. For Study: each tune includes a split track with:
Melody cue with proper style and inflection Professional rhythm tracks
Choruses for soloing Removable bass part Removable piano part.
For Performance: each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment
track (no melody) Additional choruses for soloing.

Available Volumes

Flex-Ability Pops
Solo-duet-trio-quartet or any small or large ensemble
Woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion
You can play together in harmony with classmates, family, and
friends, with any combination of instruments, from less than one year
of lessons to two, three, or more years of playing ability.
Everybody can play!
Contains: La Bamba When the Saints Go Marching In
Eye of the Tiger Peter Gunn In the Midnight Hour
China Grove Jeepers Creepers Soul Man Sweet Georgia Brown
Frosty the Snowman Celebration
Instrumentation: Oboe/Guitar/Piano/Bass Flute Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Alto Sax/Baritone Sax Tenor Sax Trumpet/Baritone TC F Horn
Trombone/Baritone/Bassoon/Tuba Violin Viola Cello/Bass Percussion
CD Accompaniment

Festival Ensembles
Standard of Excellence
by Bruce Pearson & Chuck Elledge - Grade 1-1
A new collection of flexibly scored elementary ensembles
perfect for festivals, spring concerts, summer camps, or
ensemble practice for use with groups of any size or
instrumentation.
Best of all, it's correlated with Standard of Excellence Bk 1!

Accent On Ensembles
by John O'Reilly & Mark Williams
Book 1 - Grade 1-1
Book 2 - Grade 2-2
This easy collection of flexible ensembles is designed to
help you give your young band students a valuable
small group performance experience. Playing together
in duets, trios and quartets helps develop independence
and rhythmic stability. You can play these ensembles
with like instruments of with any combination of mixed
instruments up to full band.

Yamaha Band Ensembles Bks 1,2,3
John O'Reilly & John Kinyon
A collection of mixed ensembles that correlate page-by-
page with the Yamaha Band Student. For small combos
or large bands, the Yamaha Band Ensembles present
interesting repertoire in an amazingly flexible format that
will meet the needs of your band year after year,
regardless of how its instrumentation varies.
Each piece is arranged so that it can be performed as a solo,
duet or trio and can be played by any combination of like
or mixed instruments, from solo player with piano,
to a full ensemble.

Selected Duets Vols. 1 & 2
From the Rubank library, these are among our
best-selling volumes. They are available in 2 volumes,
volume 1 being easy, and volume 2 being advanced.
They are available for Flute, Clarinet, Sax,
French Horn and Trombone.

Trios for ...
More Trios for...
John Cacavas
22 Distinctive Arrangements of famous music in each book.
Available for Clarinet, Flute, Sax and Trumpet.
An accompaniment cassette is also available for
each book.

Canadian Brass Series of Brass Quintet Books
Since their debut in 1970, the Canadian Brass has revolutionized brass music,
and established the brass quintet as a vital force in the musical world today.
Their extensive catalogue of published brass music brings much of their
recorded literature into printed editions, furthering their cause of continually
creating new repertory for brass quintet, and sharing that repertory with
brass players everywhere. Listed below are their best selling folios.
All books are available for Trumpet I, Trumpet II, F Horn, Trombone and
Tuba. There is also a score book available.
The Christmas book also has a part for keyboard or synthesizer.
Available:
15 Favorite Hymns - arranged by Larry Moore
All You Need Is Love - arranged by Chris Dedrick
Book of Beginning Quintets - arranged and edited by Walter Barnes
Book of Easy Quintets - arranged and edited by Walter Barnes
Book of Advanced Quintets - arranged and edited by Walter Barnes
Book of Favorite Quintets (Intermediate) arranged and edited by Walter Barnes
A Canadian Brass Christmas - arranged by Luther Henderson
Easy Classics - arranged by Charles Sayre
Hymns for Brass (easy) arranged by Rick Walters
Immortal Folksongs (easy) arranged by Terry Vosbein
Brass on Broadway (intermediate) arranged by Bob Lowden
Rodgers & Hammerstein Hits (easy) arranged by Charles Sayre
Favorite Classics (intermediate) arranged by Henry Charles Smith

Ensembles for All
Classical Duets for All Classical Trios for All
Classical Quartets for All
Sacred Duets for All Sacred Trios for All
Sacred Quartets for All
Christmas Duets for All Christmas Trios for All
Christmas Quartets for All
by William Ryden
Any number or combination of instruments can
perform the duets, trios and quartets in these 3 separate
collections. Styles included are from the Baroque to the
20th century. The music ranges in difficulty from grades
1 to 3. In many places, alternate passages and notes in
octaves are provided.
instrumentation:
Piano/Conductor/Oboe, Flute/Piccolo, Bb Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Alto Sax,
Tenor Sax, Bb Trumpet/Baritone TC, F Horn,
Trombone/Baritone BC/Bassoon/Tuba, Percussion
also available: Duets for All, Trios for All, Quartets for All

Pops For Ensembles

Grade 2 Band Level
Short ensemble arrangements that feature sections
of the band. Includes optional rhythm section or
piano accompaniment.

Graded Band Level Ensembles

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