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🎉✨ Happy New Year from C. Alan Publications! ✨🎉Here’s to a fresh year of music, ideas, and inspiration. We’re grateful f...
01/01/2026

🎉✨ Happy New Year from C. Alan Publications! ✨🎉

Here’s to a fresh year of music, ideas, and inspiration. We’re grateful for the composers, performers, and educators who bring music to life, and we’re excited for what’s ahead.

Wishing you a year full of meaningful music-making and new discoveries.

✨ Happy Holidays from C. Alan Publications ✨Wishing you joyful music-making and a season filled with warmth, rest, and a...
12/24/2025

✨ Happy Holidays from C. Alan Publications ✨
Wishing you joyful music-making and a season filled with warmth, rest, and a little sparkle. Thank you for being part of our musical community this year. 🎶🎄

📆 Friday, 12/19/2025, 2:00 pm🎶 Trinity High School Percussion Ensemble, led by Manny Flores! 🥁📍 Room: W184AFTERSHOCK by ...
12/19/2025

📆 Friday, 12/19/2025, 2:00 pm
🎶 Trinity High School Percussion Ensemble, led by Manny Flores! 🥁
📍 Room: W184

AFTERSHOCK by Nathan Daughtrey
Inspired by the powerful, natural phenomenon of earthquakes, this fast-paced work quickly transitions from a faint rumble to a deafening roar. With flexibility at its core, you may perform "Aftershock" as a battery (”drummy”) piece or as a full percussion ensemble with a full complement of keyboard instruments.

BARBAROSSA by Adam Bruce
“Barbarossa” is a dramatic and exciting intermediate-level piece for 11 players. It introduces multiple alternative playing techniques and will develop a strong and innate sense of 12/8 time in the performers.

COSMIC LIGHTHOUSE by Mat Campbell
"Cosmic Lighthouse" combines antiphonal metallic instruments with rich extended harmonies and canonical rhythms in stage ensemble, to create a musical experience that’s both fun to play and listen to.

NOLAND ROAD by Chad Floyd
The title, "Noland Road," was inspired by the groove-oriented nature of the work, the steady churning of the marimba patterns and riffs as if traversing a road, and by the commissioning school’s geographic location on Noland Road in Independence, Missouri.

📆 Friday, 12/19/2025, 10:15 am🎶 Jazz New Music Reading Session featuring the US Air Force Airmen of Note, led by Chief M...
12/19/2025

📆 Friday, 12/19/2025, 10:15 am
🎶 Jazz New Music Reading Session featuring the US Air Force Airmen of Note, led by Chief Master Sergeant Brian MacDonald! 🎺🥁
📍 Room: W196

MOONLIT SKIES by Debra Stempien & Gregory Turner
Give your ensemble the classic Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s with this laid back swingin’ chart reminiscent of “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” This catchy tune will engage your players and listeners!

RAMPART HOUSE by Joey Stempien
A remote trading post on the Yukon-Alaska border, "Rampart House" is a place where history lingers in the silence. This ECM-style work captures the vast loneliness of boreal landscapes, the quiet beauty of the trading post’s endurance, and the stories frozen in time within its walls. Featuring a tenor saxophone soloist, “Rampart House” is energetic, yet haunting and contemplative—a meditation on northern solitude and history.

JUEGO DE NIÑOS by Toshi Clinch
"Juego de Niños" (Child's Play) is a Cha-Cha built around a small number of rhythmic cells commonly found in the style. The piece was composed with the purpose of demystifying "Latin" music at the high school level, while also providing a chord progression that allows any level of player to learn how to improvise. Throughout the piece there are references to two great Cuban composers, Cachao Lopez and Arsenio Rodriguez, as well as the well-known American composer, Tito Puente.

EASY, FELLA by Nic Johnston
"Easy, Fella!" is a composition in the style of Count Basie, featuring conversational interplay between sections and a driving, accessible groove. The piece unfolds like a gathering of old friends, with the saxophones introducing ideas, the brass responding, and the piano occasionally interrupting before a final consensus emerges. The head draws on gospel influences, particularly through harmonic inversions and a walking bass line that shunts the piece forward.

📆 Friday, 12/19/2025, 8:30 am🎶 Elkins High School Percussion Ensemble, led by Christopher Dial! 🥁📍 Room: W184STRESS...RE...
12/19/2025

📆 Friday, 12/19/2025, 8:30 am
🎶 Elkins High School Percussion Ensemble, led by Christopher Dial! 🥁
📍 Room: W184

STRESS...RELIEF by Scott Ward
"Stress...Relief" was originally written for the Lone Star Wind Orchestra Percussion Ensemble as part of "The Headache Miniatures" – a set of five musical vignettes, each created by a different composer independently from one another. Scott Ward’s high-energy work grabs your attention from the opening measures and doesn’t let go.

A WORLD IN US by Nathan Daughtrey (World Premiere)
Scored for 14-16 percussionists, "A World in Us" is a celebration of enduring friendship. The exciting 5-1/2 minute work takes its title from the following quote from The Diary of Anaïs Nin: “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Plan to attend! Don't miss out on these incredible sessions that are set to inspire, educate, and elevate your experienc...
12/18/2025

Plan to attend! Don't miss out on these incredible sessions that are set to inspire, educate, and elevate your experience at The Midwest Clinic. ✨

Friday 12/19/2025

8:30 am: Elkins High School Percussion Ensemble
10:15 am: Jazz New Music Reading Session
2:00 pm: Trinity High School Percussion Ensemble

📆 Thursday, 12/18/2025, 1:30 pm🎶 Ninkasi Percussion Group📍 Room: W184DESCANSOS - Across both rural highways and urban in...
12/18/2025

📆 Thursday, 12/18/2025, 1:30 pm
🎶 Ninkasi Percussion Group
📍 Room: W184

DESCANSOS - Across both rural highways and urban intersections, handmade memorials appear: white crosses, wilted flowers, photographs behind glass. My inspiration among these is ghost bikes, bicycles painted entirely white and chained where cyclists have passed. These are “Descansos,” from the Spanish word for “rest,” marking sudden loss in places of transit. Whether a roadside shrine in the desert or a spectral bike on a city street, each is an altar of absence: a silent pause in the landscape and a trace of lives carried by the transient vessels we call our bodies.

12/18/2025

📆 Thursday, 12/18/2025, 1:30 pm
🎶 Ninkasi Percussion Group! 🥁
📍 Room: W184

DESCANSOS by Mat Campbell (World Premiere!)

📆 Thursday, 12/18/2025, 11:15 am🎶 Bentonville High School Wind Ensemble, led by Timothy Hendrix! 🎺🥁📍 Room: W375ABATTACK!...
12/18/2025

📆 Thursday, 12/18/2025, 11:15 am
🎶 Bentonville High School Wind Ensemble, led by Timothy Hendrix! 🎺🥁
📍 Room: W375AB

ATTACK! by Patrick Smith
"Attack!" was composed during my time as a middle school band director, inspired by a desire to find an exciting way to teach the band a new note: D-flat. However, as I worked through the piece, I realized my true joy of composing lies in creating a sonic narrative. After rehearsing the piece with my band, I asked them what images the music evoked. The consensus was unanimous: they heard a battle unfolding. The piece begins with a fast, aggressive opening, followed by a brief, calmer middle section, before returning to the intensity of the battle. And so, "Attack!" was born. – P.S.

📆 Thursday, 12/18/2025, 8:30 am🎶 Little Elm High School Percussion Ensemble, led by Matt Neal! 🥁📍 Room: W184ARTICHOKE TA...
12/18/2025

📆 Thursday, 12/18/2025, 8:30 am
🎶 Little Elm High School Percussion Ensemble, led by Matt Neal! 🥁
📍 Room: W184

ARTICHOKE TANGO by Mo Longo
This exciting and lively marimba quartet requires tight rhythmic cohesion, a pinch of attitude, and a dash of drama. Written for four players (2-mallets each) on two marimbas, "Artichoke Tango" will steal a listener’s heart.

OBSIDAN by Jessica Flannigan
Aptly named for the lustrous black volcanic glass, "Obsidian" mixes the glitter of the metals with the darkness of Marimba and Timpani in an enigmatic feel. Written with great flexibility towards the size of the ensemble, "Obsidian" can serve as a full large-ensemble work, or stand alone as a melodic piece with only keyboard instruments and Timpani.

DRAKENVUUR by Nathan Daughtrey
Inspired by the Dutch folktale “Wichardsage” (from The Sagas of Veluwe), "DrakenVuur" tells the story of a deadly fire-breathing dragon that lived under a medlar tree devouring every living creature it encountered. Nearby, Wichard was in love with Margaret and asked her father for her hand in marriage. Her father said he needed to prove himself worthy, so the disappointed, yet determined, Wichard set off to slay the dragon. As Wichard was defeating the dragon, the creature bellowed a terrible scream that sounded like “Gelre! Gelre!” Wichard rode in victory back to marry Margaret and built a castle on the site of the medlar tree battle and named it “Gelre,” which would later become Gelderland.

Plan to attend! Don't miss out on these incredible sessions that are set to inspire, educate, and elevate your experienc...
12/17/2025

Plan to attend! Don't miss out on these incredible sessions that are set to inspire, educate, and elevate your experience at The Midwest Clinic. ✨

Thursday 12/18/2025

8:30 am: Little Elm High School Percussion Ensemble
11:15 am: Bentonville High School Wind Ensemble
1:30 pm: Ninkasi Percussion Group

📆 Wednesday, 12/17/2025, 5:30 pm🎶 The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" Concert I, led by Col. Bruce R. Pulver! 🎺...
12/17/2025

📆 Wednesday, 12/17/2025, 5:30 pm
🎶 The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" Concert I, led by Col. Bruce R. Pulver! 🎺🥁
📍 Room: W375AB

RISE UP! by Brooke Pierson
Concert band arrangement of a winning fanfare from the annual Dallas Winds fanfare competition, this work is a perfect concert opener or closer. The joyous and energetic opening and closing as well as melodic B section make the piece excellent for any concert.

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C. Alan Publications was founded in 1989 by pedagogue and recovering percussionist/band director Cort McClaren. With humble beginnings as a publisher of high-level percussion literature, C. Alan quickly expanded into the worlds of band literature, chamber music, and orchestral music. Regardless of the genre, C. Alan Publications has always maintained the highest standards of musical integrity, making it the go-to source for performers and directors alike.

With a growing reputation as a publisher with world-wide reach, C. Alan became the North American distributor of the band & orchestra catalogs for several prestigious international publishers, including G & M Brand Publications from Great Britain, Brolga Music from Australia, and TradeWinds from Great Britain. The percussion catalog was further enhanced through the acquisition of Whole>Sum Productions and Steinhardt Publishing, as well as a distribution deal with the prestigious OU Percussion Press (out of the University of Oklahoma).

Beginning with a handful of outstanding composers, C. Alan Publications set out to attract even more world-class artists in each area it represents. Today, the finest composers publish with C. Alan and enjoy worldwide distribution of their music and unparalleled encouragement.

Finally, C. Alan Publications boasts a first-class team of professionals that strives to provide supreme service to our composers and to our customers.