Percussion Works By Grade Level
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Grade 3 Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon by Percy Grainger, “dished up” for tuneful percussion by Chalon Ragsdale. Grade 3, Duration 3’45”. Percussion Ensemble for 9-10 players. Grade 4 Shepherd’s Hey by Percy Aldridge Grainer, arr. for percussion ensemble … Read More

Selections from Songs of the North
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This wonderful Grainger collection for band features three pieces from a larger collection of 12 – “Willie’s Gane to Melville Castle,” “This is No’ My Plaid,” and “O Gin I Were Where Gadie Rins.” Selections from Songs of the North is a … Read More

The Lads of Wamphray Ballad: A Preface
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In 2010, while reading Kay Dreyfus’ The Farthest North of Humanness (selected letters of Percy Grainger from 1901-1914), I stumbled across a footnote mentioning Percy Grainger’s The Lads of Wamphray March (one of my favorite Grainger numbers, and the first example … Read More

Percy Grainger strikes a blow for “the common folk”
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“the composer has wished to express the devil-may-care dare-deviltry of the cattle-raiding, swashbuckling English and Scottish borderers of the period so grimly yet thrillingly portrayed in the border ballads collected and published by Scott, Motherwell, Jamieson, Johnson, Buchan, Kinloch, Swinburne … Read More

Commissions
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Aux Arcs Music completed our first commissioning project in January of 2018 with the release of the Lads of Wamphray for Wind Band and Chorus.

Animated Score Gallery
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Grade 2 & 3 Works « Prev 1 / 1 Next » Percy Grainger's "Beaches of Lukannon" A Grainger Threesome, Percy Grainger/arr. Chalon Ragsdale Intermezzo Sinfonica from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Percy Grainger's "The Inuit" Percy Grainger's "My Dark Haired Maid" Ye … Read More

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Works for Band Works for Percussion Welcome to Aux Arcs Music! We specialize in distinctive and exciting arrangements and compositions for the modern concert band.We’re excited about the work we’ve done in the last 10 years to bring arrangements of quality … Read More

Why ‘In a Nutshell’?
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“In a Nutshell.” Why did we pick that title? The colloquial phrase means “in a few words, or in a very brief form”, and, when the phrase first entered the English language, referred to “anything that had been compressed, later … Read More

Welcome!
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Welcome to “In a Nutshell”, the information outlet of Aux Arcs Music (pronounced “Ozarks Music”). Aux Arcs Music was founded to provide music for Concert Band showcasing the deep wellspring of music flowing from the pen of Percy Aldridge Grainger, … Read More