Instrumentation: bells, xylophone, snare drum, bass drum, two tom-toms, suspended cymbal, two timpani, two wood blocks, tambourine, crash cymbals, tenor drum.
Songs include:
Little Brown Jug
Jump Down Turn Around
Red, White & Chester Doodle (Yankee Doodle)
Students and audiences will enjoy these three favorites. Each work is a separate percussion ensemble. They have all been field tested with a middle school percussion ensemble and have met with great success and applause. This is another great collection by the outstanding composer/arranger John Russell. Highly recommended for a beginning or established percussion ensemble.
"Classic Favorites III" is an arrangement for percussion septet of Joseph Winner's "Little Brown Jug," the folk song "Jump Down Turn Around" and a march-styled presentation of two traditional tunes Russell calls "Red, White & Chester Doodle." In the latter, Russell cleverly alternates four-bar phrases from "Chester" and "Yankee Doodle" and, for good measure, throws in a surprise quotation from Sousa's "Stars and Stripes, Forever" In the course of the arrangement, the seven players perform on xylophone, glockenspiel, snare drum, bass drum, two toms and two woodblocks, suspended and crash cymbals, a tenor drum and a tambourine.
Russell writes interesting parts for all members of the ensemble. The cymbal player, for example, gets to share the spotlight in "Little Brown Jug," playing a suspended cymbal rhythm that includes straight eighths as well as "ride" and "shuffle" rhythms, as the septet turns in a swing-styled performance.
Russell's arrangement should please directors looking for entertaining middle school/high school literature that combines valuable instructional opportunities with an enjoyable performance experience for every student in the ensemble.”
- John R. Raush PERCUSSIVE NOTES 2006
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