FRASER LINKLATER RESOURCES
Dr. Linklater has worked on creating the following resources below for Band Directors over time as a set of useful tools for band development. He has graciously donated them to the MBA to host in this on-line format, so they can be easy to access, simple to use & download, and in the hopes you might explore them all over time. There are hundreds of files in folders and below one can find headings, lists, and links to these folders. We encourage you to explore them all as you have need and time. Fraser would rather have them available to all and has asked that if you use some or all of the items and resources that you consider making a donation to the Remembering Ken Epp PD Fund at the Winnipeg Foundation in lieu of purchasing these resources. This means one could donate as they see fit under this honour system, and/or consider donating annually to the fund. The denomination is left to each individual donor.
Here are the categories of the resources. Please click on the category of interest and it will take you down the page to that section and there you will see the resources listed under that heading. Each heading below, when clicked, will open an online folder with the selections, instructions, parts, and more. We encourage you to explore the prefaces and introductions in the folders first. Some folders have sub folders in order to better sort all the titles and parts, score, and other files. Some recordings for those selections can also be found in their respective folders. Enjoy exploring these resources.
If you have a question for Dr. Linklater, please email him directly.
Repertoire Material for Grade I, II, III
Repertoire Material for Grade IV, V, VI
Established in 2016 by the MBA, the fund supports the Ken Epp Professional Development Award - "Ken Epp was the Executive Director for the Manitoba Band Association from 1986 to 2014, and had a profound impact on band and music education in Manitoba and across Canada. This first award presented in 2017, is for a young teacher in their first few years of band instruction in Manitoba.
Donation. The endowment fund is held at the Winnipeg Foundation and there are two ways to contribute to the fund. Either on-line directly with the foundation or by sending a cheque made payable to the Manitoba Band Association office and marking it for the Ken Epp Fund.
DR. FRASER LINKLATER
Fraser Linklater is now retired from the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba,
where he directed the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band and Chamber Winds and taught courses
in music education from 1999 to 2016.
At the provincial level, Dr. Linklater served on the Executive Board of the Manitoba Band
Association for almost two decades and coordinated all three levels of the MBA Honour Band
program. In October 2002, he received the MBA Award of Distinction for his services to music
education in Manitoba.
Nationally, Dr. Linklater is an assistant editor of Canadian Winds, the national journal of the Canadian Band Association. Over the past decade, Dr. Linklater has contributed over twenty articles to this journal. An authority on Canadian wind band repertoire, in addition to his writing on the topic Dr. Linklater founded the North Winds recording project, which has resulted in five CDs of Canadian band music featuring over eighty pieces, most of them never recorded before. In October 2014, Dr. Linklater was presented with the 2014 National Band Award by the Canadian Band Association, in recognition of outstanding contribution to band at the educational, community and professional level in Canada.
For almost a decade, Fraser Linklater was co-director (with Dale Lonis) of the Canadian Wind Conductors Development Program, an international conducting and instrumental music education summer workshop. In May 2006 Dr. Linklater was the guest conductor of the National Youth Band of Canada and has also guest conducted wind groups several times at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival.
During his time at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Linklater created almost twenty transcriptions of orchestral works for wind band, many of which he conducted with the U of M Wind Ensemble. More recently he has branched out into composition, and has produced several works for wind band using famous composers as both an inspiration and a point of departure. Dr. Linklater lives in Winnipeg with his wife Joan and enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.
Child's Play
Prairie Hymn
Let's Jump! *NEW
Hopscotch
All Around the Circle
Walk, Don't Run! *NEW
Dance Party
Danse!
Ancient Stones
Lovely Morning *NEW
Late Summer
Saint-Malo *NEW
IFS Light
Piazza di Venice
Grumpy Old Man
Sprouts
Hey, Ho!
Un Poquito Bossa Nova
People Like to Say Salsa!
A Grateful Heart *NEW
Disco-mbobulated
Courtly Lament \
Quebec Meets Liverpool
Magyar Songs and Dances
Affirmation Spring (Wind Quartet)
Eternal Trumpet
Bird in Flight
Coming Unraveled
East Coast Girl
Russian Winter
Three Dances
Stand with Ukraine
Vienna 1900
Magic Mountain
Wind from the East
A Little Night Music
Always
What was the Question?
Gaude! Gaude!
Bridge of Sighs
Prague Spring (Brass & Percussion)
Variations Pathétique
A Child's Garden of Verses
En Roulant!
Hallelujah!
T-Rex
Icescapes
Fantastic!
Soviet Circus
Lollipop Suite
Laudate
Water Music
Scherzo-kovich
Wind Symphonies
Russian Rhapsody
Wind Rites
Nordic Flight
Prairie Spring
Mercury Rising
Samurai Cowboys
A New Awakening
Musician Français
Pierrot 110
Bayreuth Festspiel
Bach, Little Prelude
Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra
Berg, Wozzeck
Brahms, A Classical Romantic
Chatman, Fanfare for a Cold Land
de Falla, Three-Cornered Hat
Dvorak, Slavonic Dances
Grovlez, Petite Litanie
Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis
Janacek, Sinfonietta
Kodaly, Hary Janos Suite
Mahler, A Mahler Portrait
Mahler, Das Knaben Wunderhorn
McPhee, Tabuh-Tabuhan, movement I
Mozart, String Quintet
Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev, Lt. Kije
Ravel, Rapsodie Espagnol
Schubert, Moment Musicale
Strauss, Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare *NEW
Turner, Opening Night
Abide With Me
Chester
Circles of 4ths
Finlandia
Four Bach Chorales
Irish Tune
Jesus, Joy
Mahler Chorale
O Sacred Head
Ye Banks and Braes
40 Folk Songs From Canada
40 Folk Songs From Europe
40 Folk Songs From Around the World
20 Canons for Band
1 - The First Noel
2 - Little Town of Bethlehem
3 - O Come, All Ye Faithful
4 - Hark the Herald Angels Sing
5 - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
6 - Away in a Manger
7 - Deck the Halls
8 - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
9 - Joy to the World
10 - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
11 - Silent Night
12 - Angels We Have Heard on High
13 - Huron Carol
14 - Frosty the Snowman
15 - Rudolph / Let It Snow
16 - Winter Wonderland
Lyric Study #1
Lyric Study #2
Lyric Study #3
Lyric Study #4
Lyric Study #5
Lyric Study #6
Lyric Study #7
Lyric Study #8
Lyric Study #9
Lyric Study #10
Lyric Study #11
Lyric Study #12a (key of Ab major)
Lyric Study #12b (key of A major)
Lyric Study #13a (key of Bb major)
Lyric Study #13a (key of Ab major)
Lyric Study #14
Lyric Study #15
Air for Band
As Summer Was
As Winds Dance
Battle Pavane
Brother James’ Air A
Brother James’ Air B
Celtic Air and Dance
Childhood Hymn
Chorale & Canon
Country Wildflowers
Courtly Airs and Dances
Cumberland Cross
Donkey Riding
Down by the Salley Garden
Ellan Vannin Suite
Fanfare Ode & Festival
Filum Vitae
Fire Dance
French-Canadian Suite
Glorioso
Greenwillow Portrait
In Quiet Times
Joy
Jupiter
Land of the Silver Birch
Linden Lea
Little French Suite
Lux Aurumque
March of the Irish Guard
Marching Grenadiers
Modal Song & Dance
Moscow 1941
Nathan Hale Trilogy
Nightsong
Nottingham Castle
Nightsong
O Waly, Waly
On a Hymn Song of Philip Bliss
One Night in Athens
Overture 4 Winds
Peer Gynt Suite
Pevensey Castle
Pinnacle
Portrait of a Clown
Prairie Songs
Procession of the Sardar
Queenwood Overture
Rites of Tamburo
Rowan Tree, The
Russian Sailors’ Dance
Salvation is Created
She's Like the Swallow
Simple Gifts
Sinfonia #4
Sketches of Canada
Soldiers Procession
Songs for Friends
Steppes of Russia
Suite in a Minor Mode
Swahili Folk Hymn
The Voyageurs
Three Ayres from Gloucester
Three Czech Folk Songs
Three Folk Miniatures
Train Heading West
Two Sierra Moods
Washington Post, The
When the Stars Began to Fall
Yorkshire Ballad
Arnold, Four Scottish Dances
Arnold, Prelude, Siciliano & Rondo
Bach, Prelude & Fugue in Bb
Balmages, Arabian Dances
Bennett, Old American Dances
Bennett, Symphonic Songs
Bernstein, Candide Overture
Bernstein, Symphonic Dances
Bourgeois, Serenade
Brahms, Blessed are They
Buckley, Windjammer
Cable, Banks of Newfoundland
Camphouse, Movement for Rosa
Cesarini, Greek Folk Song Suite
Chance, Incantation and Dance
Chance, Korean Folk Song
Coakley, Canadian Folk Rhapsody
de Meij, Gandalf
Dello Joio, Satiric Dances
Dello Joio, Scenes from The Louvre
Ellerby, Paris Sketches
Gorb, Yiddish Dances
Grainger, Children's March
Grainger, Colonial Song
Grainger, Irish Tune from County Derry
Grainger, Lincolnshire Posy
Grainger, Shepherd's Hey
Grainger, Spoon River
Haan, Ammerland
Hazo, Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song
Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis
Holst, First Suite in Eb
Holst, Second Suite in F
Jacob, Original Suite
Jacob, William Byrd Suite
Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
Mackey, Sheltering Sky
Mennin, Canzona
Milhaud, Suite Français
Presti, Elegy Young American
Reed, Armenian Dances, part I
Reed, El Camino Real
Reed, Hounds of Spring
Reed, La Fiesta Mexicana
Reed, Little Concert Suite
Shostakovich, Festive Overture
Smith, Concert Variations
Strauss, Allerseelen
Susato/Dunnigan, Danserye
Swearingen, Exaltation
Ticheli, Loch Lomond
Ticheli, Sun Dance
Van der Roost, Puszta
Vaughan Williams, Folk Song Suite
Vaughan Williams, Toccata Marziale
Wagner, Elsa's Procession
Whitacre, October
8.1 Book Material
8.2 CD Lists and Resources
8.3 CD #1
8.4 CD #2
8.5 CD #3
8.6 CD #4
8.7 CD #5