Percussion Ensemble Music for the Secondary Classroom

This grooving piece is a great pick for a five- or six-person percussion ensemble. It has some great moments that will strengthen your ensemble's timing and skills.

An exciting bluesy piece that will be a blast for an advanced percussion ensemble to perform. This piece features exciting moments that vary from fast-paced ensemble sections to reduced grooves in the style

Face off against the strongest opponent - dramatically inspired by the final levels of older video games, this piece is great for developing players to portray action and excitement!

This piece is a perfect fit for an early percussion program introduction. Josh Gottry uses catchy grooves and rhythm's layered together before switching to a playful melody in the mallets written in the

This lively piece is great for developing percussionists to perform together. Written for four performers, it passes motifs between members while using an ostinato rhythm to hold everyone together. This is

This groovin' piece feels out of this world! It's an extraterrestrial introduction to the whole-tone scale. The layering of parts in this work creates an interesting spacey feel that will keep players

This playful piece is a great fit for developing percussionists - especially mallet players. Painting the picture of a young cub playing in an open field, the work is written to be youthful and fun. This

Your developing percussion ensemble needs this piece for their next concert! Full of intrigue and texture, it brings handclaps, snaps, and instruments together to create a Brazilian and Cuban-inspired

Building from a rhythmic ostinato, this triumphant anthem arrangement soars with energy and grandeur on the DIADEMATA hymn tune. Cleverly interweaving Beethoven's HYMN TO JOY, in addition to the powerful

A funky drumset beat combines with blues-like melodies to form an easy percussion ensemble piece perfect for a holiday-themed concert requiring minimal rehearsal time. After a brief introduction, the

This useful collection contains 27 newly arranged trios written at Grades 1.5 to 3. Designed to be used with any combination of three wind instruments with or without percussion, the possible combinations

A bouncy, short and sweet interlude with an ear-pleasing melody harmonized between two mallet instruments and accompanied by simple battery percussion.

A unique opportunity for beginning to intermediate musicians to perform on nonstandard instruments such as plastic buckets, brooms, spray bottles used as shakers, and plastic trash cans. These items are

Brush Hour is Alex Stopa's homage to the great brush masters from the early twentieth century. In it, Stopa introduces some of the most common brush patterns and techniques used in a jazz setting.

Haut Metall Holz (haút me'tal holts) is an intermediate-level quintet for percussion. The title comes from the German words describing the three types of instruments used by each of the five

An exploration of rhythmic relationships within odd time meters, with a fusion of the harmonic languages of jazz and pop music. At its core, this piece is made up of an omnipresent, spiraling rhythmic five

As the title suggests, Tomfoolery is a piece that calls for three players with one tom each. It uses hocket rhythms between the players for the main thematic material in the opening and closing A

Blur is a med-advanced percussion ensemble piece, featuring a large sound palette and an exciting, driving rhythmic force. As the title suggests, the texture of the piece moves from thin and

Spiderweb Lead is a percussion quartet that brings together steel drum, marimba, vibraphone and a percussion accompaniment that can be played on drums of the performer’s choice such as

In the Hawaiian language, the word nalu stands for wave, in reference to those in the waters surrounding the islands of Hawaii. Through the use of counterpoint, syncopation, hocket, and hints

Vector is written for keyboard percussion and electronics. The keyboard percussion parts are of easy to intermediate difficulty, with most of the challenge coming from ensemble timing and

Scored for percussion quintet with optional offstage performers, Thundersnow is mysterious, mesmerizing, bold, but also extremely delicate at times, much like the storms themselves.

Dedicated to the composer's young daughter who is fascinated with everything in the night sky, StarDancer alternates between light-hearted, spinning dances and more raucous, foot-stomping