Randall Standridge · The Clapping Song (Grade 3, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About The Clapping Song What do you get when you mix symphonic motivic development, a touch of a country hoedown, and a hint of jazz, all tied together with clapping from the ensemble? You get…
Randall Standridge · Autumn Light (Grade 3, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About Autumn Light This emotional new work from Randall Standridge serves both as an illustration of the Autumn months and a reflection on mortality. The colorful orchestration alternates between hopeful and bittersweet harmonies as motives and…
Randall Standridge · River Valley Overture (Grade 3, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About River Valley Overture An homage to some of his favorite band composers of the past, Randall Standridge wrote River Valley Overture with the intent that is sound like it was from the heyday of…
Randall Standridge · Choose Joy (Grade 3, Randall Standridge) • • • Sample Score: (Click Here!) • • • About Choose Joy Choose Joy! Inspired by a high school student who found happy moments even in the face of cancer, this uplifting work from Randall Standridge combines engaging rhythms, energetic melodies, bombastic percussion, and hints…
Randall Standridge · …music speaks (Grade 3, Concert Band) – Randall Standridge Sample Score (CLICK HERE!) About …music speaks While I can’t speak for all composers, I know that, for myself, I often find musical ideas that I wish to explore more than once. Such is the case with …music speaks. A couple of years…
Randall Standridge · On an Olde English Carol (Grade 3, Concert Band) – Randall Standridge Sample Score (CLICK HERE!) About On an Olde English Carol The Coventry Carol is one of those rare Christmas carols that is not full of light and hope. It is a dark lullabye, mourning the loss of the children who…
Randall Standridge · Gallowglass (Grade 3, Concert Band) – Randall Standridge Sample Score (CLICK HERE!) About Gallowglass Gallowglass is a musical representation of the “Gallowglass” of 13th-16th century Ireland. They were an elite class of mercenary warriors. Originally, this term applied to settlers who descended from Norse-Gaelic clans, but eventually came to be a designation…
Randall Standridge · Affirmation (Peace Love And Music), Grade 3, Concert Band Sample Score (CLICK HERE!) About Affirmation This one is for all the outcasts, the geeks, the marginalized, the wallflowers, and the people who are “different.” Every once in a while, I believe you get to “say something” with a piece of music. When…
Randall Standridge · Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Grade 3, 2020) Sample Score (CLICK HERE!) About the inspiration for the work Music can serve many purposes. It can inspire, it can illustrate, it can cause waves of emotion…and it can comfort. I’m sure many of us have had moments in our lives when…