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Hal Leonard Publishing Co.

Hal Leonard Publishing Co. publisher

In the late 1930s in Winona, Minnesota, the late Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother Everett "Leonard" Edstrom and their friend Roger Busdicker had formed a very popular dance band. Concerned that their conservative father wouldn't approve of using the family name for a band, Harold and Ev took parts of their names and called the band Hal Leonard. As leader of the Hal Leonard Band, Ev eventually became known as "Hal Leonard."

The company Hal Leonard was founded in 1947, after the Hal Leonard Band broke up. At the time, Ev started a music store using the Hal Leonard name while Roger and Harold were both directing award-winning high school bands in Winona. In those days, most school bands played serious literature, but Harold and Roger had the unique ability (because of their professional experience) to arrange "popular" music for school bands. Soon band directors across the US wanted their arrangements. They started to mimeograph copies and sell them. They realized that to successfully (and legally!) launch a new publishing company, they needed to license songs, so they ventured to New York's Tin Pan Alley in search of copyrights. What they got on their trip was an education in publishing and the rights to "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," one of the most popular songs of the day. Eventually, many music publishers in New York were licensing Hal Leonard to do school band arrangements of their songs. Thus began their publishing business and an entirely new industry.

The company grew and soon choral arrangements and a wider variety of band arrangements were added to their catalog of publications. In the early 1950s, the home organ industry began to grow rapidly That is when Hal Leonard published The Pointer System for organ, which eventually became the best-selling organ instruction method ever created. That method soon led to the first organ "benchpack," which featured instruction books and songbooks packaged in the bench of an organ. In the late 1950s, The Pointer Systems for Guitar and Piano were produced, introducing millions of beginners to instant playing success.

In the mid-1960s, Hal Leonard began marketing band and choral music to educators by sending recordings of arrangements through the mail. This unique promotion is now used by virtually every print music publisher in the industry.

In 1970, Keith Mardak and associates started a new division of Hal Leonard called Learning Unlimited, to create the first book/audio music instructional products. This division soon outgrew the company, and Mardak became general manager for the entire company. Shortly afterward, the Hal Leonard Guitar Method was launched, becoming one of the first methods to incorporate popular music. Today, this method is the leading guitar method in the world, having taught millions how to play guitar.

Hal Leonard continued to grow throughout the 1970s, and in 1980 made the giant leap into popular music print publishing when it established a unique and very close relationship with Chappell Music, the world's largest music publisher. Shortly thereafter, Hal Leonard increased its presence in virtually every music print market around the world. As a result, facilities in both Milwaukee and Winona were expanded to accommodate corporate growth.

In 1985, Hal Leonard was purchased from the original founders by an internal management team led by Keith Mardak, who then became president. Since then, it has experienced consistent, dramatic growth due to creative, innovative and aggressive publishing and marketing.

Today, Hal Leonard Corporation is the world's largest educational music publisher, with the #1 methods for learning guitar (the Hal Leonard Guitar Method), piano (the Faber Piano Method), and school music instruments (Essential Elements for Band and Strings), plus publications for learning virtually every instrument imaginable.

Hal Leonard is also the leading publisher of songbooks; Real Books and fake books; sheet music; band, orchestra and choral arrangements for schools; music reference publications; children's music products; educational magazines; and more. Many new titles are enhanced with supplemental audio and video files online for download and streaming.

The company leads the way in technology, developing eBooks, digital sheet music, apps and more. Hal Leonard operates many popular websites including SheetMusicDirect with thousands of songs arranged for different instruments available for download, and GuitarInstructor.com for online guitar lessons and tab.

In 2014, Hal Leonard made a substantial investment in Noteflight, LLC, an innovative music technology company dedicated to reinventing the way people create, share and use digital sheet music. This online community allows users to edit, display, play back and share music notation in a cloud-based web browser, on any device. Noteflight has an active subscriber base of nearly 1.5 million music enthusiasts and educators.

In its catalog of more than 200,000 available titles, Hal Leonard represents many of the world's best known and most respected publishers, artists, songwriters, arrangers and musical instrument manufacturers. Its products are sold in more than 65 countries throughout the world through Hal Leonard offices and a large network of distributors. Domestically, the company markets to more than 7,500 music stores in the United States and Canada through a team of 50 in-house sales representatives.

Hal Leonard operates out of two main facilities — its corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a state-of-the-art administration, production and distribution facility in Winona, Minnesota. The company also has editorial offices in New Jersey and Boston, and offices abroad in Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Chairman Keith Mardak, President Larry Morton, and the more than 500 talented Hal Leonard employees around the world remain dedicated to providing the very best in music products and services.

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Dance of the Spirits - Michael Sweeney

Dance of the Spirits Michael Sweeney

Titel / Title: Dance of the Spirits Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 2 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Format: 9 X 12 INCH UPC: 884088566807 MusicWorks Grade 2 - 2,5||The Native American Cree tribe refer to the aurora borealis (or northern lights) as t ...
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Duration: 5:30 min
Difficulty: 2
Composer: Michael Sweeney
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Article Nr: 157384
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Song for Hope - Michael Sweeney

Song for Hope Michael Sweeney

Titel / Title: Song for Hope Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 3 Format: 9 X 12 INCH UPC: 884088574765Written as a memorial for a middle school band student, this sensitive and moving work opens with a chorale played by off-stage brass. A flowing melody stat ...
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Duration: 4:30 min
Difficulty: 3
Composer: Michael Sweeney
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Article Nr: 157382
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The Singing River - Johnnie Vinson

The Singing River Johnnie Vinson

Titel / Title: The Singing River Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 3 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Sprache / Language: English Format: 9 X 12 INCH UPC: 884088567163 MusicWorks Grade 3||In the Shoals region of northwest Alabama, the Tennessee River is ...
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Duration: 5:40 min
Difficulty: 3
Composer: Johnnie Vinson
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Article Nr: 157381
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Lullaby from a Distant Star - Richard L. Saucedo

Lullaby from a Distant Star Richard L. Saucedo

Titel / Title: Lullaby from a Distant Star Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 3 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Format: 9 X 12 INCH UPC: 884088576820 MusicWorks Grade 3||The lush harmonies in this lyrical and emotional piece will provide your students wi ...
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Duration: 3:50 min
Difficulty: 3
Composer: Richard L. Saucedo
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Article Nr: 157378
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To Soar With Eagles - Michael Sweeney

To Soar With Eagles Michael Sweeney

Titel / Title: To Soar with Eagles Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 3 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Format: 9 X 12 INCH UPC: 884088558437 MusicWorks Grade 3||In this dynamic multi-style overture for band, Michael Sweeney opens with stark percussive h ...
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Duration: 5:20 min
Difficulty: 3
Composer: Michael Sweeney
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A Guide Along the Pathway - Richard L. Saucedo

A Guide Along the Pathway Richard L. Saucedo

Titel / Title: A Guide along the Pathway Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 4 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Format: 9 X 12 INCH UPC: 884088574789 MusicWorks Grade 4||This intense and emotional work was commissioned by the Indiana Music Educators Associ ...
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Duration: 5:00 min
Difficulty: 4
Composer: Richard L. Saucedo
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Article Nr: 157375
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Siorai September - Samuel R. Hazo

Siorai September Samuel R. Hazo

Titel / Title: Siorai September - (Gaelic: Eternal September) Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 4 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Format: 9 X 12 INCH Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2011 UPC: 884088562199 MusicWorks Grade 4||Translated from Gael ...
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Duration: 5:30 min
Difficulty: 4
Composer: Samuel R. Hazo
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Article Nr: 157374
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O Waly, Waly (A Rhapsody for Band) - Jay Bocook
Titel / Title: O Waly, Waly - (A Rhapsody for Band) Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 4 Format: 9 X 12 INCH UPC: 884088575779Dating from the 1600s, the folk song O Waly, Waly (commonly known as The Water is Wide) forms the basis for this well-crafted rhapsod ...
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Duration: 5:00 min
Difficulty: 4
Composer: Jay Bocook
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Article Nr: 157373
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Parkour - Samuel R. Hazo

Parkour Samuel R. Hazo

Titel / Title: Parkour Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 5 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Sprache / Language: English Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2011 UPC: 884088574826 MusicWorks Grade 5||Combining brash and aggressive rhythmic figures alo ...
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Duration: 5:45 min
Difficulty: 5
Composer: Samuel R. Hazo
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Article Nr: 157371
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Finale from Symphony No. 1 (revised edition) - Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow / Arr. Glenn Cliffe Bainum

Finale from Symphony No. 1 (revised edition) Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow / Arr. Glenn Cliffe Bainum

Titel / Title: Finale from Symphony no.1 Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen + CD Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 5 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen + CD Sprache / Language: English Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2011 UPC: 884088499709 MusicWorks Grade 5||The skillful transcript ...
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Duration: 9:00 min
Difficulty: 5
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Shooting Stars - Richard L. Saucedo

Shooting Stars Richard L. Saucedo

Titel / Title: Shooting Stars Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: MusicWorks Grade 5 Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Sprache / Language: English Format: 9 X 12 INCH Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2011 UPC: 884088574802 MusicWorks Grade 5||Begin or end your next c ...
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Duration: 6:00 min
Difficulty: 5
Composer: Richard L. Saucedo
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Article Nr: 157369
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JE: Tequila
Titel / Title: Tequila Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Big Band Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: Beginning Jazz Ensemble Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 1987 UPC: 73999779059 Series: Beginning Jazz Ensemble It's Pee-Wee's big tune...and it works great for young jazz ensembles.
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Difficulty: 2
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JE: Tequila - Chuck Rio / Arr. John Berry

JE: Tequila Chuck Rio / Arr. John Berry

Titel / Title: Tequila Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Jazz Ensemble Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: Jazz Ensemble Library Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen UPC: 73999894400 Jazz Ensemble Library (Grad 4) Besetzung: 5 Sax, 4 Tpt., 4 Pos., 4 Rhythm. Mit Partitur With a hip arrangement that keeps the original flavor, John Be ...
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Difficulty: 4
Composer: Chuck Rio
Arranger: John Berry
Article Nr: 61623
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JE: Tequila - Chuck Rio / Arr. Mark Taylor

JE: Tequila Chuck Rio / Arr. Mark Taylor

Titel / Title: Tequila Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Jazz Ensemble Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: Young Jazz (Jazz Ensemble) Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Sprache / Language: English UPC: 884088545161 Young Jazz Ensemble - Grade 3 Everyone knows the familiar version recorded in the late 50s by the Champs, but here i ...
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Difficulty: 3
Composer: Chuck Rio
Arranger: Mark Taylor
Article Nr: 61622
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Concert And Contest Collection - Clarinet (PA) - Himie Voxman
Titel / Title: Concert And Contest Collection - Clarinet (PA) Herausgeber / Publisher: Rubank Publications Instrumentation: Klavierbegleitung Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Rubank Solo Collection Produkttyp / Product: Buch Sprache / Language: English ISBN: 9781423445456 UPC: 73999716405 ||Rubank Publications|Piano Accompaniment|Book Only|Rubank Solo Collection|Clas ...
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Arranger: Himie Voxman
Article Nr: 54550
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I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) (Low Brass Ensemble) - Richard M. Sherman / Arr. James Christensen

I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) (Low Brass Ensemble) Richard M. Sherman / Arr. James Christensen

Titel / Title: I Wan'na Be Like You - (The Monkey Song) Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Tiefes Blechbläserquartett Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: Pops For Ensembles Level 2.5 Sprache / Language: English UPC: 73999042306
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Difficulty: 2+ (EASY-INTERMEDIATE)
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