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MAINE WEST BANDS

Resources

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- Music Downloads -

FALL 2021

Pregame
- The Star Spangled Banner

- Maine West Fight Song
Rock Tunes
- 99 Red Balloons , Nena

- Come Together , Beatles
- Sweet Caroline , Neil Diamond
Concept Show
Equinox: Seasons of Change
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
- Spring (reprise)


FALL 2020

Pop/Rock Tunes:
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Flash (from the movie "Flash Gordon") - Queen
99 Red Balloons - Nena
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit

MARCH CONCERT 2020

Wind Ensemble

Dum Spiro Spero
National Emblem March
Machu Picchu
Equivalence (Perc Ens)
Percussion Music (Perc Ens)

Symphonic Band
Be Thou My Vision
Self Destruct
Tango Mariana

Concert Band
Pulsation
Rain
Toccata for Band

Percussion Techniques
Drums of Moria
Technology
Power Struggle

PRISM 2019


Wind Ensemble
Dashing Through the Snow

Sleigh Ride

Imagine (at 3:30 mark)
All I Want for Christmas is You (Handbells)

Symphonic Band/Concert Band
On This Day Earth Shall Ring
Snow Day Celebration
Sparkling Lights

Percussion Techniques

Nutcracker - Miniature Overture, March, Dance of Sugar Plum, Trepak

MARCHING BAND 2019
Maine West Fight Song
Star Spangled Banner

Rock/Pop Tunes
Sucker - Jonas Brothers
I Like It - Cardi B
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John

High Hopes - Panic at the Disco
I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys

"Escape" 2019 Competition Show Music
   
- Intro ("Mad World") 
   
- Capture (Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings")
   - Escape (music from "The Matrix")
   - Hide and Chase (Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" and Andy Akiho "No one to Know One")
   - Freedom (John Legend's "Glory")

Click HERE for a YouTube playlist of the original source material for our    "Escape" 2019 Show

Watch the animation drill to the show!
Escape Intro and Part 1
Escape Part 2

Escape Part 3 (Hide)
Escape Part 3 (Chase)
Escape 4


​MAY 2019
Symphony!
Disney Film Favorites

Young Person's Guide to John Williams
Crossing the Bosporus
Cinema Paradiso
Iron Mon

MARCH 2019
Amparito Roca
Loch Lomond
Jupiter 
Snow Caps
Da Vinci Sketches
Suspended Animation
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss
Valiant Fanfare
Rhythm Stand

Drums Louder Gooder

PRISM 2018

See Amid the Winter Snow
Vier Deutsche Weihnachtslieder
Jingle Bells Forever

Season of Peace
Bugler's Holiday

The Christmas Song (Clarinet Choir)
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo (Percussion Ensemble)
Pines of Rome Finale (Symphonic Orchestra)
Holiday​ Joy (Jazz Band)

Sugar Plum Swing (Jazz Band)


VETERANS DAY 2018
Armed Forces - The Pride of America
Hymn to the Fallen (from Saving Private Ryan)

MARCHING BAND 2018
Maine West Fight
Feel It Still
Shape of You/Castle on a Hill
Something Like This

25 or 6 to 4
Downtown

"Dreaming in Color" Show


MAY 2018 CONCERT
The Addison Red Line, Bell
Princess Leia's Theme, arr. Brown
Action Sonata for Tuba and Band, Sadler

The Great Locomotive Chase, Smith
The Avengers, Silvestri/arr. Brown
Viva Mexico, Brobowitz

Bombastix (Percussion Techniques)
Brooms Hilda (Wind Ens percussion)

MARCH 2018 CONCERT
Ignition, Stalter

First Suite in E-Flat, Holst
I. Chaconne at 0:00 (click HERE for the score for analysis/research)
II. Intermezzo at 4:49
III. March at 7:38
Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song, Hazo
Art in the Park, Sheldon

I - Cubism at 0:00
II - Aquarelle at 2:42
III - Sgrafitto at 5:30
IV - Chiascurro at 7:27

Havendance, Holsinger
Above the Clouds, Bernotas
Bandology, Osterling
Excalibur, Brooks

​PRISM 2017 CONCERT
Sleigh Ride
Winter Rhapsody
Christmas at the Movies
Let There Be Peace on Earth
Faeries
Largo from "Winter"
Christmas Time is Here (Brass Quintet)
Angels We Have Heard on High (at 1:10 in recording)
Christmas Presence


MARCHING BAND 2017
(click on title for recording)
Handclap
Fireball
Can't Stop The Feeling
Africa
Hooked on a Feeling
Starships

- Des Plaines Arts Council Scholarships 2020 -

Did you know that the Des Plaines Arts Council has scholarship money for students in 4 - 12th grades?  They support young people in their pursuit of the cultural arts: dance, music, performing and literary arts and the visual arts.

Go to www.dpartscouncil.org/scholarships to find out more.
Applications can be filled out online & the deadline is March 31, 2018.

- Staff/Private Teachers -

Marching Band Faculty:
Mr. Danny Kent, Assistant Band Director
Mr. Bobby Bonslater, Drumline Instructor/Visual and Music Designer
Mr. Benjamin Krauss, Pit Percussion Instructor
Ms. Desi Striker, Color Guard Coach
 
Private Teaching Faculty:
TBD

- Helpful Links -

Fingering Charts for all instruments
Click HERE

Musictheory.net 
Offers excellent trainers and guides for improving your own personal music theory knowledge and abilities. Use this to practice note reading, key signatures and more!

Multimedia Online Music Dictionary
Created through Virginia Tech University, this is a great comprehensive resource for all musical terms and symbols.

Metronome Online 
This online metronome allows you to practice with a very honest time-keeper!  Just pick your tempo, turn up your speakers and go!! Also includes some in-depth explanations of the uses of a metronome and other instrument resources. 


INSTRUMENT RESOURCES 
 Flute World
 International Clarinet Association
The International Saxophone Page 
The International Horn Society 
The International Trumpet Guild Youth Site
Online Trombone Journal 
Tuba/Euphonium Links

Vic Firth Percussion 
Offers an excellent educational department for percussionists offering lessons, exercises and trainers.

​Woodwind Fingering Guides
A complete list of fingering charts in full ranges for all woodwind instruments.
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