Soca/Calypso
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Six Pieces for Beginning Steel Band
$100.00 Select optionsThis series was commissioned specifically to provide quality steel band music for beginning steel bands. The six pieces in this collection represent a variety of styles, composers and difficulty and can serve as an entire semester’s repertoire.
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Catch Me
$20.00 Select optionsThis lively calypso packs a punch! Through great voicing and effective stops, this danceable melody will please your audience.
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Last Train to San Fernando
$30.00 Select optionsThis was among the first recorded pieces to document a steel orchestra at work. The Woodbrook Invaders recorded it in 1950.
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Hope
$20.00 Select optionsHope, written by composer, performer and educator Jeff Narell, weaves nicely between reggae and soca.
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Erlkonig
$25.00 Select optionsSchubert’s most famous art song based on Goethe’s eerie text comes to life in this bomb arrangement.
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Over The Rainbow
$40.00 Select optionsThis beautiful melody by Harold Arlen will be familiar to many in your audience, and thus a crowd-pleaser.
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Next Carnival
$15.00 Select optionsThis piece is reminiscent of old time calypsos with a typical I, IV, I, V progression, sections with call and response phrases and short sing-able melodies.
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Backyard Finns
$35.00 Select optionsBackyard Finns was written to showcase the resonating quality of pans in the “sweet” registers, this is a modern calypso, post soca.
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Ambidextrous
$35.00 Select optionsA funk-infused tune for steel band based loosely in the tonal framework of D major.
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Pagliacci
$40.00 Select optionsThis is an exciting adaptation from Leoncavallo’s most famous opera, Pagliacci or, “Clowns.”