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The canon is a contrapuntal device that has been used by composers throughout the history of music. From the seventeenth century comes this canon, Johann Pachelbel's best-known work. This beautiful pi...

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 BBC military band in 1930.

Based on the songs: Princess Royal ' Admiral Benbow ' Portsmouth.

Arguably the most important composition in the history of the modern concert band, here for the first time is an edition adapted for contemporary school band instrumentation! Extreme ranges (particula...

The Second Suite in F, opus 28 No 2 by Gustav Holst, arranged by Colin Matthews, was included by the Music Committee of the Bavarian Wind Band Association as a standard work in the compulsory list of...

Recognized as the first true masterpiece for wind band, this new updated edition of the authentic Colin Matthews version now includes a full recording by the U.S. Marine Band conducted by Frederick Fe...

This march, with its rousing and sweeping melodies, is one of the most attractive of all military marches. It is a colorful and spirited work with immediate appeal. Duration: ca. 3 minutes.

This transcription has been undertaken in profound admiration for the music of Bart?Ñk, and in the hope that his work will receive wider recognition by players and audiences.

Along with his First Suite in E-flat, Holst's Second Suite is among the most treasured landmark works for band. In this adaptation, Robert Longfield has adjusted the extreme ranges, used the instrumen...

Paul Lavender arranged the third movement (Allegro Assai) of the popular Symphonic Dances by Sergey Rachmaninoff for wind orchestra. He successfully managed to apply the original's dynamics and drama...

Although Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition is often enjoyed in its original solo piano version, it is perhaps best known through its famous orchestration by Maurice Ravel, who masterfu...

Britten's critically acclaimed opera Peter Grimes was first performed in 1945 and has become a part of the standard repertoire. Additionally, the orchestral concert suite Four Sea Interludes is freque...

Welsh composer Karl Jenkins dedicated his landmark mass The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace to the victims of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo. More recently it is been associated with remembrances of 9/11. Th...

'Woodwind and percussion players usually are unfamiliar with the antiphonal brass choir tradition. I made this modern, more easily readable version of Bonelli's classic 1600 Toccata for flexible wind...

Woodwind and percussion players usually are unfamiliar with the antiphonal brass choir tradition. I made this modern, more easily readable version of Bonelli's classic 1600 Toccata for flexible wind e...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

Originally composed to introduce the various instruments of the orchestra, Britten's 'Young Person's Guide' follows a set of variations based on a melody by Henry Purcell. In this setting for wind ban...