Sheet Music for Orchestra

Richard Hayman (1920-2014) had a very successful career as chief music arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra, an association that lasted over 50 years, and also served as a pops conductor for various...

Composed in 1951, THE PHANTOM REGIMENT is an orchestral miniature by Leroy Anderson (1908-1975). Writing about the work, he explained that it depicts a company approaching from far off, then going bac...

AMERICAN PATROL was originally composed for piano by Tin Pan Alley composer Frank White Meacham in 1885. An arrangement for wind band was published in 1891. Glen Miller released a 78 single of the mar...

Also known as "FARE THEE WELL" and "10,000 MILES", THE TURTLE DOVE is an English folk ballad. First published in John Payne Collier's A Book of Roxburghe Ballads in 1710, the song depicts the farewell...

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) longest work at almost an hour, the complete one-act ballet Daphnis et Chloé was described by the composer as a "symphonie choregraphique" (choreographic symphony). Ravel b...

Richard Eilenberg (1848-1927) was a German composer of predominantly marches and dances for orchestra and military music, along with a ballet and a few operettas. The delightful galop Petersborough Sl...

Composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) in the spring of 1883, SCHERZO CAPRICCIOSO IN D-FLAT MAJOR, Op. 66/B. 131 is a favorite of the concert hall not only for its colorful humor but also for its rest...

Written in 1891 as Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was considering Jeannette Thurber's generous offer to move to the United States and serve as director of her National Conservatory of Music in New York, C...

Completed in 1896, THE WATER GOBLIN (VODNÍK), Op. 107/B. 195 is one of four tone poems by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) based on Karel Erben's collection of narrative poetry BOUQUET published in 1853. Wr...

Percy Grainger's (1882-1961) love for music of the simple rural folk of the British Isles led to a series of forty-three pieces that he grouped into a series called "British Folk-Music Settings", incl...

My fanfare (written March 5-6, 1939, at Coral Gables, Florida) is based on the English folksong 'The Duke of Marlborough' as collected by Miss Lucy E. Broadwood from the singing of Mr. Henry Buretow (...

At the close of the Allegro of the Overture, a climax of pleasurable activity, appears a stony figure of heroic mold - the Commendatore. Here, according to the opera-score, the trombones speak for the...

Walter S. Hartley (1927-2016), whose works for saxophone and low brass significantly expanded the repertoire available for those instruments, wrote the QUARTET CONCERTO for SATB saxophones in 1992 for...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) wrote A London Symphony (also called Symphony No. 2, though never by the composer) between 1912 and 1913 at the prompting of his friend and fellow composer George Bu...

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) wrote the orchestral work BALLATA DELLE GNOMIDI (THE BALLAD OF THE GNOMIDES) in 1920, after he had already begun to gain international attention for his orchestral tone p...

Left incomplete at the time of his death, DOKTOR FAUST occupied Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) between the years 1916 and 1924. He had intended it to be his masterpiece. A completed version was construc...

AMERICAN PATROL was originally written for piano by Tin Pan Alley composer Frank White Meacham in 1885. An arrangement for wind band was published in 1891. Glen Miller released a 78 single of the marc...

Hauntingly lovely, this memorable selection from the Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks will mesmerize your audience. Keys are C and E flat, the full orchestra is involved, and a discrete drum set p...

This flute feature may be performed with one, two, or three flutes. This merry song speaks - and sings - for itself! Instrumentation: 3.2.2.2: 3Sax(AAT;opt): 4.3.3.0: Perc(1-2): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set)...

Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917) was a Jewish-Austian composer of ballet music, spending most of his career as the official Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia. Over th...

One of Percy Aldridge Grainger's most popular encores was improvisations on English Morris Dance tunes that he programmed as Country Gardens. An instant hit, Grainger finalized this setting in spring...

This is the big beautiful piece for that special quiet place in your next concert or festival. Inspired by the inscription on a James Dean statue. Unforgettably moving!

This is a set of variations arranged for orchestra on "Hail to the Chief' and is ideal for any program which has a patriotic theme. It is tuneful and colorful. Grade 5.

An exciting transcription for orchestra by the composer of his well-known work for band, AMERICAN HERO is perfect for any occasion honoring flight or any American hero; excellent as a concert opener....