Grand Mesa Music

Treat your orchestra to an exotically different sound palette, featuring an electric violin soloist on this bluesy/jazzy composition. This work may be performed any of three ways: orchestra with solo...

Here is an opportunity to show off your string group's ability to swing in a piece that features well, everyone! The form of the piece is a 12 bar blues. As in any good jazz solo, the choruses build u...

Based on Pslam Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter, written by Thomas Tallis in 1567 for Protestant Archbishop Mathew Parker, these miniature masterpieces have maintained their popularity with choir...

Beautiful two movement set drawn from a mass and motet of Palestrina. More advanced players will be challenged by the contrapuntal writing and varied textures of this setting.

Classic setting of a Holst choral work.

This classical transcription features sensitive scoring and would be a valuable musical experience for any younger band. The percussion writing is particularly well done.

A superbly crafted and exciting transcription by the author of Blueprint for Band and Instructional Designs for Band. Includes many performance options.

Excellent transcription Hayden originally wrote for eight winds.

Captures all of the excitement of the original in a setting approachable by most high school bands.

Exceptional band setting of a Brahms vocal motette.

Five sections of Rachmaninoff's little known choral setting of the Russian Orthodox liturgical service are included in this powerful band arrangement.

Written in two connected movements, this arrangement captures the power and drama of the high baroque.

Exciting, well-scored condensation of themes from the Verdi opera.

Singleton, a master arranger well-known for his work with the U.S. Air Force Band and the Denver Brass, has created a genuine tour-de-force for young band based on the music of Susato. The four-moveme...

At the tender age of 15, Mendelssohn crafted one of the earliest works for wind ensemble (an 11-wind bathhouse ensemble on the German seacoast). This modern resetting makes this historically significa...

This is probably the most exciting overture ever written, and Singleton's new transcription is just as much fun as the original orchestral version. A 'must play' for all upper level bands.

Great thought and care went into this highly authentic band transcription of Schubert's timeless piece for piano four hands. This is a classic setting that offers much deeper musical rewards than othe...

Extremely colorful young band transcription of one of French composer Offenbach's most famous opera overtures. This setting is energetic and transparent, proceeding through a number of moods and style...

Penning another superb entry to his Master Transcriptions for Young Bands series, Ken Singleton has created a beautiful set of two of Tchaikovsky's sacred works, Legend and The Grace of Peace. Besides...

P.I. Tchaikovsky originally composed 'Hymn to Saints Cyril and Methodius' in 1865 for four-part mixed chorus. Besides being a gorgeous work to perform, this setting provides a valuable medium for teac...

A bacchanalia is the 'Roman festival of Bacchus,' and a 'drunken revelry'. Saint-Saens masterfully captures the exoticism of such a scene, using Middle-Eastern tunes (characterized by melodic interval...

Taking an early baroque keyboard work with a chromatic theme and beautiful counterpoint, the transcriber has crafted a classic work for the modern wind band. Optional instruments used in the colorful...

One of the most authentic band transcribers active in the field today has crafted a masterwork for the modern concert band out of one of the most famous Romantic opera overtures of all time. In seekin...