SKU: KJ.WB211

CALYPSO VARIATIONS, uses syncopation throughout the work with the eight note/ quarter note/ eight note rhythm. Written in theme and variations form, this light and carefree melody is based on the West Indies folk song Tinga Layo. Use CALYPSO VARIATIONS to expand the multicultural and interdisciplinary horizons of students as you simultaneously develop their rhythmic and performance skills.

About Standard of Excellence in Concert

The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.

Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.