Concert Band for Beginners

Let your young percussionists take a leading role with this overture for young groups. Percussion is featured throughout with standard instrumentation. Woodwinds and brass parts contain limited techni...

This lovely composition, which focuses on legato playing from all sections reminds us of the warm lazy days of another era. Technically not demanding, this will allow you to focus on your band's tone...

Misty Blue for developing band will give your percussion section an opportunity to hone their technique with Latin rhythms. Audiences will tap their toes to this breezy dance.

Let your young percussionists take a leading role with this overture for young groups. Percussion is featured throughout with standard instrumentation. Woodwinds and brass parts contain limited techni...

The music of George M. Cohan is timelessly American and unsentimentally patriotic. Delighting audiences for years, his works revel in the delight of all that is America. This collection includes "Yank...

An exciting opener or closer for a second-year concert, Triple Trouble's 12/8 meter is simple and repetitive enough to be easy to play but not boring. Trombones will have to learn long positions for t...

A singular look at Abraham Lincoln's decision to go to war over the slavery issue and secession of states in 1861, Road to Freedom is a perfect vehicle for cross-curricular study. It reflects the trou...

Teaching points abound in this exciting work, but technique does not get in the way. Some eighth note / eighth rest counting spices things up and a wider than usual array of percussion instruments add...

Composer's Notes Portrait of a Clown is in ABA form surrounded by an eight-bar introduction and coda: Introduction (beginning at measure '1') A (beginning at rehearsal letter 'A') B (beginning at rehe...

Composer's Notes Portrait of a Clown is in ABA form surrounded by an eight-bar introduction and coda: Introduction (beginning at measure '1') A (beginning at rehearsal letter 'A') B (beginning at rehe...

Suggestions for performance: VERSE 1: as slowly and sustained as possible; the horns must be heard clearly (do not hesitate to double the horns with a trumpet in measures 5-10 if necessary). VERSE 2:...

Suggestions for performance: VERSE 1: as slowly and sustained as possible; the horns must be heard clearly (do not hesitate to double the horns with a trumpet in measures 5-10 if necessary). VERSE 2:...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Composed in June 1973, 'The Headless Horseman 'was first performed in July 1973 by the Manasquan (New Jersey) Summer School Concert Band. The score was subsequently revised and engraved in 1980 under...