Classic Favorites II

Classic Favorites IIThe three titles of this collection include: Wabash Cannon Ball, Drunken Sailor, and Little Red Caboose. The ensembles included in Classic Favorites II are suitable for middle school, junior high or high school percussion ensembles. They have all been field tested and have met with great delight and joy for the students and the audiences alike. They are also suitable for any college percussion ensemble touring public schools during recruitment time.

Dynamics are limited to mp and mf

followed by a single bar

The Arc de Triomphe

The mallet parts are difficult yet very playable

this composition can be performed either inside

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

and "Up On The House Top" (seven players)

NOTE: This piece is listed in the PENNSYLVANIA Selected Music List

The instruments required are all standard equipment in the High School or Jr

The snare and tom-tom players each get a 1-bar solo as you approach the outro

Written in six-eight time using typical rhythms plus the eighth two sixteen eighth pattern in the mallet trumpet calls

Beginning at measure 33