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Select the EXACT composing piece you want to do with your students this year with these Teaching Performance through Composition Individual Sale packs. The Apprentice Series zooms in on greater harmonic complexity as well as different key signatures and compositional techniques. Once your students have learned and experimented with their various musical bits and pieces (think of them as building blocks), you are then able to collectively compose with the musical elements of structure, timbre, texture and expression to create your very own, original performance worthy pieces of music. Every one a world premiere! See score sample for details. This work was commissioned by the Minnesota Band Directors Association and the Minnesota Junior Winds.

• KEY: Concert Eb major + Bb mixolydian mode

• TIME: 3/4

• DISCLAIMER: These materials have been extracted from Book Three of the Teaching Music through Performance series to make for a more affordable resource.

• INSTRUMENTATION: Please see perusal score above.

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