Haakon Esplo

Daylight Funk is a light, funky and catchy piece of music that will fit well for concerts with your young band throughout the year. With some challenges in leading parts and simple lower parts, this i...

Sweet Piano is an easy swing piece that is guaranteed to get the audience to feel the beat. The first part is a sweet little waltz - last part is uptempo and show.

'How I love the name of Jesus' is a psalm of David Welander. He wrote it on the train home to Lorenskog in January 1923, and completed it out overnight. It was printed in the magazine 'Krigsropet' sho...

The piece 'Procession' is ment to describe, or be used as processionmusic. Perhaps the piece can work as an official entry of the youngest in your band or maybe you want to use it in your next church...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was in addition to Claude Debussy, the most important composer of French impressionism. The term impressionism can be translated as 'artistic impression', first used in paint...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was in addition to Claude Debussy, the most important composer of French impressionism. The term impressionism can be translated as 'artistic impression', first used in paint...

The movies from Disney have always included a lot of great music. 'Once Upon a Dream' was written in 1959 to the musical animation movie 'Sleeping Beauty', a movie produced by Walt Disney. It is base...

Franz Schubert wrote three 'Marches Militaires', opus 51, D. 733. This publication is the first of the three (No. 1 in D major) and one of Schubert's most famous pieces. There is some uncertainty abou...

The movies from Disney have always included a lot of great music. 'Once Upon a Dream' was written in 1959 to the musical animation movie 'Sleeping Beauty', a movie produced by Walt Disney. It is base...

Main theme from Vltava (Moldau) The Czech composer Bedrich Smetana belongs to the national romantic period in music history. Many of his works is what we call 'program music', music that describes spe...

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major was completed 9 March 1785, just four weeks after he wrote his D minor concerto. Andante is the second movement in the concert and has been nicknamed 'Elvira Ma...

Franz Schubert was born in Lichtental, Austria in 1797 and was 28 when he composed the Ave Maria about year 1825. The original text that was set to the song is taken from the poem 'The Lady of the Lak...

Habanera is a dance and a musical form that originated in Havana, Cuba. Habanera is one of the roots of tango. It is a slow solo dance adapted from a French inspired Haitian dance in the first half of...

Many of the most beautiful melodies in history of music are written by Johann Sebastian Bach. He, like many other composers, has used the theme of Arioso in several works he wrote. With some variation...

A beautiful setting of one of the greatest orchestral exerpts of the litterature, Dvorak's New World Symphony. This arrangement makes this music playable also for smaller ensembles!This arrangement of...

Prelude in C minor Opus 28, No. 20 Frédéric Chopin's compositions often reflect the feelings he had for his native country, Poland. His grief over the loss of Polish independence after the revolution...

This beautiful little piece of music will be perfect to play at any concert. Elegy means lamentation and the melodic themes reflect this. You may use the piece to work with sound, dynamics and phrasi...

Mammoths were a family of elephants that, with one exception, died out at the end of the last ice age. Their closest living relative is the Asian elephant. In many places in the world one can find mam...

Mammoths were a family of elephants that, with one exception, died out at the end of the last ice age. Their closest living relative is the Asian elephant. In many places in the world one can find mam...

In this little suite in three movements, your young musicians really can be creative and have fun. Of course, a story must be written about the unfortunate princess who ate pea soup and got to let a s...

Let your youngest musicians present their instruments and be soloists in this simple piece! Let's meet the band has a tutti part as starts and finish and a flexible part in the middle (A and B) where...

Let us present "Terrible Symphony" – the perfect piece for beginner or junior bands! This fun composition gives young musicians the opportunity to have a great time while driving the conductor crazy....