Concert Band for Beginners

With this composition, Otto M. Schwarz shows himself totally capable of composing a work with a somber, almost melancholic character. Melody and counterpoint, accompanied by a peaceful harmony, play a...

With Adagietto Jacob de Haan demonstrates his ability to write in all kinds of styles. A sense of pure calm emanates from the flowing main melody. The tasteful orchestration fully supports the harmoni...

It is interesting to recall that Handel wrote Messiah, his most famous work whilst at the lowest point of his career, suffereing from fianantial hardship and depression. It was only composing that dis...

A lovely and historic addition to your holiday concert! He Shall Feed His Flock, the uplifting air from Handel's Messiah, will serve equally well in festival and concert programs at any time of year....

Take it Easy! takes a look at life's simple pleasures-lively, happy, and uncomplicated-a carefree, fresh-sounding composition. This piece is arranged in a variable instrumentation and is ideally suite...

Take it Easy! takes a look at life's simple pleasures-lively, happy, and uncomplicated-a carefree, fresh-sounding composition. This piece is arranged in a variable instrumentation and is ideally suite...

This beautiful long flowing melody comes from Humperdinck's famous opera Hansel and Gretel (1893). In addition to being a delightful concert work it is also a useful as a tone study for practicing pla...

Jacob de Haan arranged four Christmas carols in the suite Four Shepherd Songs. In the four-part instrumentation, creating the possibility to play the piece with a large number of varied strengths, he...

Es war einmal eine Frau, die hiess Maxima. Sie hatte wunderschönes langes Haar. Sie träumte immer wieder von einem Prinzen auf einem weissen Pferd. Sollte sie ihn eines Tages heiraten? Und sollte sie...

Pleasure for Band - 'Vergnügen für Orchester' - ist ein brillantes, spritziges Werk für eine variable fünfstimmige Instrumentierung.

As the title suggests Pleasure for Band is a pleasant composition it is based in five equal parts. The first movement makes use of A-B-A form, with the A theme having a bright joyous character and the...

Dreaming of love. This is the theme of the folksong on which the composition was based. Its characteristic melody inspired Jacob de Haan to this instrumental romance with a transparent structure consi...

Dreaming of love. This is the theme of the folksong on which the composition was based. Its characteristic melody inspired Jacob de Haan to this instrumental romance with a transparent structure consi...

Roland Kernen hat in seiner Bearbeitung des bekannten und beliebten Adventsliedes die vier Liedverse mit verschiedenen Verzierungen ausgeschmückt und um ein Vorspiel, ein Nachspiel und mehrere Zwische...

Roland Kernen hat in seiner Bearbeitung des bekannten und beliebten Adventsliedes die vier Liedverse mit verschiedenen Verzierungen ausgeschmückt und um ein Vorspiel, ein Nachspiel und mehrere Zwische...

Das Adagio, so wie es heute weithin bekannt ist, hat eine interessante Geschichte: Es wurde erst im 20. Jahrhundert von einem Musikwissenschaftler aus einem Manuskript Albinonis, welches lediglich Tei...

Der Komponist Jacob de Haan hat sich mit dieser Bearbeitung für Blasorchester eines bekannten und beliebten Kirchenliedes angenommen. Der Inhalt des Liedes - blindes Gottvertrauen, das ewige Leben und...

In "Real-Pop", Kees Vlak takes us through modern Japan in five movements. The modern overture is dedicated to the city of Yokohama. A charming contrast is the second movement, a ballad about the quiet...

The song Bist du bei mir, geh' ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh' (BWV 508) was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for his second wife Anna Magdalena (1701-1760), who he married in 1721. Th...

The effortlessness with which Rossini wrote his melodies verges on the incredible. In over twenty years, he composed about forty operas. And who does not know the famous William Tell Overture from his...

The effortlessness with which Rossini wrote his melodies verges on the incredible. In over twenty years, he composed about forty operas. And who does not know the famous William Tell Overture from his...

The Chinese conceptions yin and yang represent the two contradicting principles of an object or phenomenon, such as day and night, light and dark, man and woman. In Yin Yang Serenade this can be found...

The energetic activities of three craftsmen at a local crafts market inspired the composer Christian Bouthier to write this work in three movements. The clockmaker gets many curious visitors at his st...

The energetic activities of three craftsmen at a local crafts market inspired the composer Christian Bouthier to write this work in three movements. The clockmaker gets many curious visitors at his st...