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We Understand the Cost

Previously known as “Veteran”, this work allows Grade 2 instrumental band students to express, and offer, their sentiments from the 1st person of the Ensemble.  In offering the piece, they are telling their listeners… “WE understand the cost.”

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In You, I Live Again

#1356 in 4:37 for 3 Bb Clarinets and Bass Clarinet.  Inspired by Real Time events spanning several Lifetimes… explained in the Score Notes.

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The MASS

The Catholic Mass set to Music.  You can get the entire Album by visiting TRACKS, or you can stream at your favorite sites.   Here are the SCORE & PARTS, which you can download for free.  Feel free to utilize and share as desired.  DOWNLOAD: SCORE & PARTS
 

TAPS from Kakehashi:  THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, rendered by The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force Band with the Choruses of Shenandoah and Old Dominion Universities.  From STORMWORKS Chapters 5:8: Writings on the Wall.

Never Forgotten from 3 Musical Haikus for Band, rendered by Blasorchester Leipzig.  From STORMWORKS Chapter 2: Wende
 
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COURAGEOUS

Written for Grade 4-5 Symphony Orchestra, this newly updated Score & Recording were offered as Gifts to the Parents of Sandy Hook, CT.
on 19 November 2013. See score notes and the memento "making of" film for the worldwide collaboration that made this Gift possible.

Central Bucks High Schools West and South: The Making of Courageous from Stephen Melillo on Vimeo.

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Click here to see Youtube Video on the "Making of Courageous," a film made by Andreas Schwarzgruber

STAR

With optional Chorus & String Parts, this Free version of the National Anthem was paid for time and again, by many, that we might live. Played at NY Giants, Nets, and Yankee games, this arrangement brought long-lasting cheers and appreciative applause. I often "end" concerts with this version, a practice that began at the 2004 Premiere of Kakehashi: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE in Roswell, NM.  DOWNLOAD: SCORE | PARTS

 

THOSE WHO SERVE

Beginning with USA stated in a rhythmically energized Morse Code, the piece quotes each of the military themes and the Star Spangled Banner.  THOSE WHO SERVE may serve in concert and/or parade situations where a tribute to ANY branch of the military is in order. This tribute is composed and scored in such a way as to provide a Grade 3 resource for a wide variety of scenarios.

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JEFFERSON'S VISION

An introductory work for young band. Enjoy!

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LOST ANCESTORS OF THE YANGTZE

The Chinese government accomplished a great engineering feat by constructing a Mega-Dam across the Yangtze River in 2012, and in so doing submerged 244 square miles of land imbued with 5000 years of Chinese History & Culture.  Some of it was saved… but much was submerged beneath 574 feet of water.  People who had known no other way of life were moved to higher ground and newer cities.

The Chinese were brave in many regards, setting the next  5000 years of future-sighted possibility. Still, what they gave up was a Past that even "foreigners" like myself will miss. I have studied Chinese martial art all of my Life and love the History and Culture of China. I was fortunate to visit several Temples and walk on the Great Wall in 2010.  The most painful part of this relocation process was leaving generation upon generation of Family Ancestors to their grave-sites, now under water...

This Musical Haiku is called, "Lost Ancestors of the Yangtze." It is written to share my empathy with those who gave up so much.

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That Which Remains, a Hymn for Notre Dame

16 April 2019

Inspired by events, Painful and Good from yesterday’s events at the Cathedral of Notre Dame,“That Which Remains, a Hymn for Notre Dame” #1193, Musical Haiku 81 in 5:17 for String Orchestra by © Stephen Melillo, IGNA 16 April 2019, 2-3M, STORMWORKS, ASCAP.

Video is the Philadelphia Orchestra Strings with Nathalie Stutzmann conducting. DOWNLOAD: SCORE & PARTS

Fanfare for Low Brass Choir, #1206 in :43 Seconds for Low Brass Choir, by Stephen Melillo, IGNA 1 AUG 2019, in Marktoberdorf. Fanfare for Low Brass Choir, SCORE & PARTS

What Child is This?  Score/Parts

What Child is This?  mp3 Audio Accompaniment

O Holy Night  Score/Parts

O Holy Night  mp3 Audio Accompaniment

Download your 27 January 1991- ∞ Memento, "The Touchstone."  This story is now a part of the newest Stephen Melillo Novel, "Death to Moby Dick, a Love Story."