De Haske Publications Sheet Music

Different Colours contains pieces in popular styles together with works in the style of world music. It features various sound colours, rhythms and time signatures from other countries and cultures, s...

The 25 pieces in Easy Pop Studies feature a number of basic techniques from pop music. Various styles from well-known pop artists are explored in turn. Titles like John & Paul and Jack's Son speak for...

10 favourites from the Strauss dynasty arranged for piano solo with fully orchestrated backing tracks. Play along with your favourite Viennese classics and take your moment in the orchestral spotlight...

Namasé Rhapsody di_x005Fffers in several respects from most other concert works by Jan Van der Roost, with its impressive twists and turns and musical allusions to the work of John Adams. A first, mi...

In 1966, the British singer-songwriters Des Dyer and Clive Scott founded the pop group Jigsaw. Nine years later they enjoyed their first great success with the catchy song Sky High which rode high in...

In composing Puszta, Jan Van der Roost wrote folk dances related to Slavonic folk music. Its character and sounds are comparable to the Hungarian and Slavonic dances by Brahms and Dvorak and to the Hu...

The lively rhythms in Jan Haderman's "Dancing on the Seashore" will delight your musicians as much as the audience. Percussionists and brass players can demonstrate their soloistic qualities in variou...

Spartacus is a 'Symphonic Tone Poem' with 3 joints. Each section has its own melodical materials, however: in the final movement the main theme from the second section returns in a 'grandioso'- tutti....

This flashing piece was commissioned by 'Het muziekverbond van West-Vlaanderen' and is dedicated to the 'Arlequino' youthband. Colourfully and effectfully instrumentated, this piece speeds towards its...

Dizzy Stratford's Double Dutch is not a 'Double Dutchman', but a special technique for jumping rope. The piece begins with a slow, lyrical introduction. The theme presented in it is further developed...

In this colourful composition, Jan van der Roost recreates the energetic and multi-racial city life in Manhattan, using four contrasting movements. The opening movement is rather short and rhytmical....

Grand March' was composed in 1995 for the All Shizuoka Youth Band of Japan. The piece opens with a majestic fanfare. A superb-sounding march, with a commanding character, follows. The talent of this J...

Jan Van der Roost received the commission for this work from the 'Orchestre d'Harmonie du Val d'Aoste' and dedicated the composition to Lino Blanchod, the conductor of the orchestra. The first perform...

Jan de Haan took as a starting point for Music for a Solemnity an old custom from the Dutch town of Hoogeveen, by which the faithful are called to church with drums. It was also inspired by the music...

Wir schlüpfen in die Haut von Miguel und reisen mit ihm nach Australien. Einigermassen entfremdet von seiner spanischen Heimat schlendert er durch das Viertel The Rocks in Sydney. Auf einem kleinen Ma...

Lunteren, a village on the Veluwe (a wooded region in the Netherlands), sets the scene annually for a village festival dominated by folklore. Festa Paesana (Italian for village festival) is set to mus...

Jacob de Haan ist zu Gast in der Region Veluwe und vertont auf seine eigene Weise das jährliche Dorffest - ganz im Zeichen des Brauchtums in Lunteren. 'Als Thema wählte ich ein niederländisches Volksl...

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...

Dizzy Stratford's musical fairy tale begins like this: "Once upon a time there was a girl called Máxima. She had beautiful long hair that she could braid into heavy plaits. She kept dreaming of the pr...

Although Orion is a slow march, its slow tempo is by no means passive or ponderous; on the contrary, it radiates natural optimism and spontaneity. The rather simple composition is versatile and orches...

The Dakota (or Sioux) Indians from the American states of North and South Dakota form the central figures in this composition. The work consists of five movements in which the culture and history of t...

Volcano is a work commissioned by the Municipal Wind Orchestra of Endingen in Germany. The three creative impulses which provided the basis for this symphonic poem are inspired by outside sources. The...