Alfred Reed

Based on authentic Armenian folk songs collected by Komidas Vartabed, this work has been expanded through contemporary use of rhythmic, harmonic and melodic content to showcase the modern wind band. A...

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...

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...

Vivaldi originally wrote his C major concerto, RV433, for a sopranino recorder around the years 1728 and 1729. It has three movements titled: 1. Allegro 2. Largo 3. Allegro molto

Vivaldi originally wrote his C major concerto, RV433, for a sopranino recorder around the years 1728 and 1729. It has three movements titled: 1. Allegro 2. Largo 3. Allegro molto

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....

Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra is an attempt to realize in music three different states of man's soul in his quest for ultimate perfection. The Lotus Sutra is the teaching of human respect, se...

The most well-known of the Elgar's six marches, March No. 1 in D was completed in July 1901. Its central melody hails from before these dates, and as Elgar told a friend, "I've got a tune that will kn...

The most well-known of the Elgar's six marches, March No. 1 in D, was completed in July 1901. Its central melody hails from before these dates, and as Elgar told a friend, 'I've got a tune that will k...

This music was commissioned as the opening and closing theme for MBS Television in Japan, and recorded for this purpose by the Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band on February 19, 2001, under the composer's...

This music was commissioned as the opening and closing theme for MBS Television in Japan, and recorded for this purpose by the Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band on February 19, 2001, under the composer's...

Dance of the Hours is the centerpiece of one of the most popular ballet scenes in the opera repertoire. It has been used since as a parody in popular music and as a cartoon ballet in the Walt Disney p...

While the original piano version of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION remained unpublished at the time of Mussorgsky's death, the work was orchestrated by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov and published in 1886, alt...

Mussorgky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" has long held a place of interest in the collective minds of bandsmen. This fine transcription allows today's mature concert bands to perform the Baba Yaga and...

Mussorgky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" has long held a place of interest in the collective minds of bandsmen. This fine transcription allows today's mature concert bands to perform the Baba Yaga and...

Subtitled "A Sylvan Serenade for Winds After Shakespeare's 'As You Like It,'" Rosalind in the Forest of Arden was dedicated to William H. Sylvester and the Eastern Wind Symphony.

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...

This concert suite includes five movements, each characterizing musically the mood or feeling generated from William Shakespeare's OTHELLO and prefaced by a quote from the text itself. Resulting from...

This march may be used both for concert programs or as a processional march, with optional cuts and repeated sections. This new arrangement for flexible instrumentation is written to be playable by an...

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...

Part of the CARIBBEAN SUITE, "Havana Moon" was written in 1955 by Alfred Reed (1921-2005) during the rising popularity of the clarinet choir as an ensemble among music educators around the United Stat...

Part of the CARIBBEAN SUITE, "Havana Moon" was written in 1955 by Alfred Reed (1921-2005) during the rising popularity of the clarinet choir as an ensemble among music educators around the United Stat...

This original work for horn quartet was written in 1997 and bears the dedication, 'for C.J.M., with fond affection.' Movement titles: 1. Intrada Royale, 2. Sarabande, 3. Minuet, 4. Corni di Caccia.

This most beautiful orchestration by Alfred Reed is now available with a full score and parts. The haunting, sonorous, transcendent charm of this beloved melody makes it an appropriate addition to any...