Alfred Reed

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 setti...

The master arranger Alfred Reed orchestrated this classic musical from 1956. Includes the songs: . Met: With a little bit of luck, On the street where you live, Wouldn't it be lovely, Get me to the ch...

Commissioned for the World Music Festival in Kerkrade, Holland, in July 1993, this work was completed in the summer of 1992, with the composer reading the final proofs in November of that year. The mu...

Commissioned for the World Music Festival in Kerkrade, Holland, in July 1993, this work was completed in the summer of 1992, with the composer reading the final proofs in November of that year. The mu...

Commissioned by Feldmusik Baar in Unterageri, Switzerland. The work is in the form of a single movement in a sprightly, vigorous tempo throughout, and built from three contrasting themes, with the mus...

This powerful opening tune by the American composer Alfred reed was commissioned by the Rissho Kosei-kai Organization. The music is based on two contrasting groups of motifs. The first group consists...

Like all concert marches, as distinct from the march intended to accompany marching groups of people, this piece differs from the traditional form, instrumentation and musical elements found in its pr...

Jules Vern's popular 1873 adventure novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, has inspired countless readers, as well as two motion pictures. The first of these, produced by Michael Todd and released in...

The iconic tune Autumn Leaves les Feuilles Mortes by Hungarian-born composer Joseph Kosma hardly requires an introduction to jazz afficionados. The music was originally set to French lyrics by Jacques...

I Left My Heart in San Francisco is a popular song which has become a timeless favorite, spanning across generations. With music by George Cory and lyric by Douglass Cross, it became most well-known a...

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 moving, powerful, and beautiful and...

Although Divertimento For Flute is in one movement it is comprised of a lyrical introduction followed by a scherzando with varying rhythms. Some of the melodic elements of the introduction appear in a...

Great News for Fanfare Band In a special agreement with the copyright holders, the Molenaar Edition has released a transcription for Fanfare band EL CAMINO REAL (a Latin Phantasy) By the world Number...

These studies were first published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten. They are the work of dis...

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...

This march may be used both for concert programs or as a processional march, with optional cuts and repeated sections.

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...

SSAA/SATB Reed - Grades 3-5

A substantive yet quite playable festive work for concert band which features both brass and woodwind choirs as well as optional antiphonal brass choirs.