Miscellaneous

In 'Ding Dong it's Christmas' Scottish composer Bruce Fraser makes a sport of misleading his audience time and again. The title already indicates that this piece has been based on the well-known Carol...

Noel' is based on the famous English Carol 'The First Noel'. The age of this song is not clear. Some scientists argue that this song is from early thirteenth century, others say that it's from the six...

The tradition of the Christmas tree in Western Europe dates back to a time long before any Christianization had taken place. During the severely cold winter nights, so it was believed, evil spirits tr...

The next time you are asked to do a holiday parade and rehearsal time is short, this solid package of three classics and interchangeable drum cadences is just the answer! Use just one of the tunes or...

This unique production number starts off with the devious-sounding This Is Halloween, which includes an alto sax solo and intense full ensemble punches. The mood shifts dramatically to the bluesy swin...

The sinister yet darkly entertaining nature of this Tim Burton movie comes through loud and clear in the music composed by Danny Elfman. This opener for the field features themes from the Overture and...

Creatively arranged and scored for dynamic impact on the move, here is a terrific chart on this Christmas favorite. Opening and closing with a fanfare style, Jay's arrangement is a unique and impressi...

Composed by Lindsey Buckingham for the film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and heard throughout the holiday season on ads and performances, this has become one of the more familiar songs of the...

Bring festive sparkle and thrilling holiday cheer to the streets with the exciting medley "Christmas Spectacular," published by Jalen / Matrix Publishing. This extraordinary arrangement for marching b...

Sleigh Ride for marching band -- what a great idea! Mike Story has expertly crafted this holiday favorite into an arrangement any band can play. You can always count on charts in the Big and Easy seri...

Sleigh Ride for marching band -- what a great idea! Mike Story has expertly crafted this holiday favorite into an arrangement any band can play. You can always count on charts in the Big and Easy seri...

Sleigh Ride for marching band -- what a great idea! Mike Story has expertly crafted this holiday favorite into an arrangement any band can play. You can always count on charts in the Big and Easy seri...

Leroy Anderson(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1908 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1975) was the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied music and foreign languages at the famous Harvard University before starting...

Equally varied, certainly as to the countries of origin, is the wind band suite (eventually with mixed choir) 'An International Christmas' (1979) in which Kees Vlak used Italian and Czech carols.

By means of this quite original fantasy Jef Penders invites both musicians and listeners to discover the typical Christmas atmosphere in eight different countries. We hear successively Christmas music...

Kees Vlak composed the 'Christmas Time' suite for band in which he used German, Hungarian and Dutch Christmas carols.

Also Kees Vlak (1938) has apparantly been struck by the treasure of French carols and composed in 1981 the 'Fantasy on French Christmas Songs'.

Also extremely popular is the song 'Adeste Fidelis' (Come you faithful), originally a 18th century Portuguese Christmas carol, arranged for band by Jef Penders.

In France there has been for many centuries a very old and rich tradition of Christmas carols. One of those immortal carols undoubtedly is the 'Can-tique de Noël', also known as 'Minuit Chrétien', com...

The French composer and organist Michel Richard de Lalande (Paris, 1657 - Versailles, 1726), a contemporary of Jean-Baptiste Lully, was music teacher of the daughters of King Louis XIV and was appoint...

Willy Hautvast also composed a similar international Christmas suite for symphonic band 'Merry Christmas' (1993) containing a.o. 'Joy to the World', 'O, Little Town of Bethle-hem', 'Away in a Manger',...

For those who prefer swinging music, Willy Hautvast wrote the selection A Swinkling Christmas with American and English carols such as Let it snow, White Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, the re...

In Germany and Austria there are many beautiful Christmas carols, some of them such as 'Holy Night, Silent Night' or 'O Tannenbaum' are known and sung all over the world. Josef Hastreiter (1938) arran...