The Maestro's Mashup - Classical Music Medley for Concert Band (Bill Miller)

To purchase, download, and print instantly: https://millermusiccreations.com/prod... Grade: 5 Length: 10 minutes *** ABOUT THIS PIECE Hear centuries' worth of music collide in this imaginative mashup for concert band. How many famous tunes can you identify? From the composer: Shortly after I composed “Anthems Around the World”, a student challenged me to do something similar for classical music. This request was followed up by a playful “bet ya can’t.” Now, naturally, I had to do the only mature thing in the face of such a provocation and prove the kid wrong. Jokes aside, I’d already been toying with the idea for a while. I set to work sifting through endless stacks of paper and PDFs, ascertaining which pieces I wanted to include and how well they’d fit together. Multiple spreadsheets later, I had a rough blueprint of what I wanted to do…but now I needed to actually sit down and write it. I set myself the following parameters: 1) the pieces had to be from the Baroque, Classical, or Romantic eras (1600 to roughly 1914); 2) a full melodic idea/motif had to fit in order to count; 3) I had to include pieces and composers that weren’t as well known in addition to the “staples”; and 4) as often as practicable, I had to have 3 pieces playing simultaneously. I was aware of the classical music mashups for piano by the late, great Grant Woolard, and I wanted to see if I could include MORE pieces than he did. I aimed to incorporate 60 pieces of music (including repeats), but I might have gone a bit overboard with a whopping 82. List of Featured Compositions: William Tell Overture (Rossini) Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) Symphony No. 9, Mvmt. 4 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Trumpet Concerto in E♭, Mvmt. 1 (Haydn) Trumpet Concerto in E♭, Mvmt. 3 (Haydn) “Largo” from the New World Symphony (Dvorak) Piano Sonata No. 16 (Mozart) Symphony No. 94, Mvmt. 2 (Haydn) Symphony No. 41, (Mozart) "Non più andrai" from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) "Hallelujah Chorus" from The Messiah (Handel) Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) “Autumn” from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) “Spring” from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) Pathetique Sonata (Beethoven) “Can Can” from Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) Moonlight Sonata, Mvmt. 1 (Beethoven) Nocturne in C# Minor (Chopin) “Confutatis” from Requiem (Mozart) Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) “Lacrimosa” from Requiem (Mozart) Marche Funèbre (Chopin) “Kyrie” from Mass in B Minor (JS Bach) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt) Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (JS Bach) Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) Symphony No. 9, Mvmt. 4 (Dvorak) Marche Slave (Tchaikovsky) L'Arlésienne Suite No.2 - Farandole" (Bizet) Pavane No. 50 (Fauré) “Kyrie” from Requiem (Mozart) “Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) “Moldau” from Ma Vlast (Smetana) La Campanella (Liszt) Piano Concerto in A Minor (Clara Schumann) Blue Danube Waltz (Johann Strauss II) “A Ball” from Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz) Die Fledermaus ( Strauss II) Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” (Beethoven) “Waltz” from The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky) Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (JS Bach) Wiegenlied Op. 49, #4 (Brahms) “Morning” from Peer Gynt (Grieg) “A Ball” from Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz) "L'Éléphant" from Carnival of the Animals (Saint Saens) “Overture” from Nabucco (Verdi) “Le Cygne” from Carnival of the Animals (Saint Saens) Mio Babbino Caro (Puccini) Traumerei (Schumann) “Méditation” from Thais (Massenet) Op. 33 in E♭, Mvmt. 4 (Haydn) Grand Valse Brillante (Chopin) Daisy Bell (Dacre) Dance of the Hours (Ponchielli) “Habanera” from Carmen (Bizet) “Les Toreadors” from Carmen (Bizet) Tritsch Tratsch Polka (J Strauss II) Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout” (Schubert) Also Sprach Zarathustra (R. Strauss) Fur Elise (Beethoven) "Der Hölle Rache" from Die Zauberflote (Mozart) Symphony No. 1, Mvmt. 3 (Chevalier de Saint Georges) Nonette (Ferrenc) Trumpet Concerto, Mvmt. 1 (Hummel) Wedding March (Felix Mendelssohn) Symphony No. 2, Mvmt. 3 (Chevalier de Saint Georges) Czardas (Monti) Easter Sonata (Fanny Mendelssohn) “Bridal Chorus” from Lohengrin (Wagner) “The Great Gate of Kyiv” from Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky) “Overture” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Felix Mendelssohn) *** Questions? Email info@millermusiccreations.com