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Top Print Music Education Titles for 2022
SBO Staff • December 2022Repertoire • December 15, 2022
Top Print Music Education Titles for 2022
Alfred
- Sound Innovations, Book 1 (Trumpet) by Robert Sheldon, Peter Boonshaft, Dave Black, and Bob Phillips
- Cantina Band Music by John Williams / arr. Michael Kamuf
- Carry the Light words and music by Andy Beck
- Dragonhunter by Richard Meyer
- The Mindful Music Classroom By Krista Hart
- Lovely Day Arr. Robert T. Gibson
- Snow Day by Katie O’Hara LaBrie
- Great Beginnings by Michael Kamuf
- Curacao Blue by Zachary Smith
- Orchid by Yukiko Nishimura
Carl Fisher (band)
- Night Fury
- Prelude Siciliano and Rondo
- Give Us This Day
- Ancient Flower
- Normal
- Winter Lights
- Rockin’ Ol’ St. Nick
- Metalurgy
- Haunted Bridges
- Star of Emmanuel
Carl Fisher (choral)
- Magnum Mysterium
- Howdidow, deediddleumday
- Storm
- Round and Round: A Collection of Rounds for Emergi
- Awakening
- Carol of the Bells – SATB
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Veni, Veni Emmanuel
- Ad Astra (to the stars…)
- Children, Go Where I Send Thee
Hal Leonard
- Essential Elements for Band
- Essential Elements for Strings
- We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Choral)
- Sing Gently (Whitacre) (Choral)
- I Sing Because I’m Happy (Dilworth) (Choral)
- Teaching with Respect
- Never Gonna Give You Up (Concert Band)
- Encanto (Concert Band)
- Star Wars (Orchestra)
- Eneza Upendo (Spread Love) (Papoulis) Choral
Randall Standridge
- Winter Winds – Randall Standridge (Grade .5)
- Santa the Barbarian and the Pirates of the North Pole
– Randall Standridge (Grade 1.5)
- Choose Joy – Randall Standridge (Grade 3)
- Toboggan – JaRod Hall (Grade 3)
- Tadpoles – Randall Standridge (Grade .5)
- A Christmas Carol – Randall Standridge (Grade 2.5)
- Shadow Fire – Randall Standridge (Grade .5)
- Fragile – Randall Standridge (Grade 1.5-2)
- Blue Sky Horizon – Randall Standridge (Grade 2)
- Luz y Sombra – Jorge Vargas (Grade 2)
RWS Music (young band)
- Alpha Dog – Heather Hoefle
- Carol of the Boombuckets – Joseph Earp
- Santa Stomp – Rob Grice
- Into Battle! – Evan VanDoren
- Elfie Stick – Robert W. Smith
- I Saw Santa Dance the Samba on His Sleigh
– Robert W. Smith
- First Things First – Heather Hoefle
- Beginning Band Warm-up
– Susan L. Smith and Robert W. Smith
- Shadow of the Samurai – Brian Bankston
- Friendship Hymn – Bryce Newton

RWS Music (concert band)
- Fanfare for the Festival of Lights – Evan VanDoren
- Tuba Christmas – Robert W. Smith
- A Mother’s Hymn – Robert W. Smith
- Up on the Housetop – Bryce Newton
- Patapan – Arr. Kurt Heinecke
- Where the Wild Things Dance – Joseph Earp
- Celtic Holy Night – Robert W. Smith
- Above the Line – Bryce Newton
- Brazilian Bell Carol – Robert W. Smith
- African Holy Night – Robert W. Smith
Wingert Jones
- Call of Heroes by Christian A. Williams
(String Orchestra, Grade 1.5)
- Down on the Delta (A Mississippi Tribute) by Carol Brittin Chambers (Concert Band, Grade 2.5)
- Allegro (from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, op. 67) arr. Brian Holmes (Grade 3.5)
- Axiom by Larry Clark (Concert Band, Grade 1)
- Abstraction by Tyler Arcai (String Orchestra, Grade ½)
- Alley Cats by Doug Spata (String Orchestra, Grade 3)
- Jazz for the Open Strings by Jiyoung Um (String Orchestra, Grade ½)
- Peach Tree March by Emily Golan
(String Orchestra, Grade ½)
- After Pandora by Mark Lortz (Concert Band, Grade 3)
- To Dream with Open Eyes by Steven J. Pyter (Concert Band, Grade 3)