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Welcome to the Standard of Excellence First Performance, a collection of thirteen songs written for beginning or young band. These selections represent a variety of musical styles such as rock, blues, marches, traditional folk songs, and transcriptions from classical music. Each piece was composed or arranged especially for the first year band student and contains a limited range of musical notes as well as simple rhythms designed to provide beginning instrumentalists a repertoire of varied fun and exciting concert music. - Title page. First Performance is a collection of 13 Very Easy/Easy (Grade ½ - Grade 1) pieces for beginning band. The variety of styles including marches, folk songs Latin, rock, blues, transcriptions, and holiday music provide fun and exciting repertoire for beginning bands from the very first concert and throughout the year. Each selection is composed to ensure student success with extensive cross-cueing, limited ranges, and interesting parts for all sections. First Performance provides quality literature ideal for concerts, contests, and all first-year, programming needs! - Publisher.