Alfred Reed

Part I of Armenian Dances is the first of a four-movement suite drawn from the folk song arrangements and original musical works of Armenian composer Komitas Vardapet collected during the early 20th c...

Part I of Armenian Dances is the first of a four-movement suite drawn from the folk song arrangements and original musical works of Armenian composer Komitas Vardapet collected during the early 20th c...

Part I of Armenian Dances is the first of a four-movement suite drawn from the folk song arrangements and original musical works of Armenian composer Komitas Vardapet collected during the early 20th c...

The SLAVONIC FOLK SUITE is an arrangement of a part of Reed's RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS MUSIC, one of the most frequently performed works of concert band literature. It is a moving, powerful, and beautiful pi...

This work was commissioned by the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Tokyo in celebration of its 70th anniversary in 1994. However, in view of the invitation by WASBE (World Association of Symphonic B...

Commissioned by and dedicated to the Saxophone Ensemble "Namerkana!" in warm friendship.  Movement titles: I. Preludium  II. Serenade at Twilight  III. Jota Espagnole  IV. Aria &nb...

Composed nearly 50 years ago (1957), this masterpiece from the late Alfred Reed displays his characteristic style and total command of wind band orchestration. Composed using a single theme and two fa...

A superb selection for mature band! Alfred Reed has created an exceptional Latin fantasy, full of brilliance and drive, which '...is based on a series of chord progressions common to countless generat...

Composed by Alfred Reed in 1986, El Camino Real continues to be a repertoire staple for advanced ensembles. By shortening the duration and reducing the instrumentation and extreme technical demands, R...

Composed by Alfred Reed in 1986, El Camino Real continues to be a repertoire staple for advanced ensembles. By shortening the duration and reducing the instrumentation and extreme technical demands, R...

Alfred Reed needs no introduction for those who admire his distinguished concert band works. This arrangement for concert band draws from five movements of his original 28 composed for brass quintet b...

Alfred Reed needs no introduction for those who admire his distinguished concert band works. This arrangement for concert band draws from five movements of his original 28 composed for brass quintet b...

Commissioned by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, this work is subtitled "A Symphonic Rhapsody for Concert Band based on Canadian Indian themes." Wapawekka, in the language of the Cree Indians, means "whit...

The SLAVONIC FOLK SUITE is an arrangement of a part of Reed's RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS MUSIC, one of the most frequently performed works of concert band literature. It is a moving, powerful, and beautiful pi...

Rahoon is a rapsodic work for clarinet solo and band by Alfred Reed. Using a poem by James Joyce, a haunting lament to a dead lover called "She Weeps Over Rahoon," as the basis, the work was commmissi...

Proserpine was the Roman counterpart of the Greek Persephone, and in Roman mythology, the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the fertility of the earth, and wife of Pluto, ruler of the infernal regions....

Alfred Reed created this setting of THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE for Band in conjuction with either unison Voices or Mixed Chorus. A version for Orchestra is also available. The corresponding choral score...

Alfred Reed created this setting of THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE for Band in conjuction with either unison Voices or Mixed Chorus. A version for Orchestra is also available. The corresponding choral score...

Uniting the traditional Woodwind and Brass Quintets into a ten-player performing group, the Alfred Reed has treated the various combinations possible with this instrumentation in various ways: sometim...

Commissioned in the late Fall of 1975, work on the SECOND SYMPHONY was not begun until the Summer of 1977, when the score was completed in sketch form in three months, July through September. The inst...

Written by Alfred Reed, THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, a Mystic Idyl is drawn from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." It is an attempt to portray in purely musical terms the moody, mysterious setting that is...

Of all four marches that came after the overwhelmingly successful No. 1, March No. 4 seems to many people to be most closely related in general effect to the first. Just why this should be so is diffi...