Southern Music Company

Carpe Diem was written for the Argyle Secondary School in Vancouver and premiered at the final senior band concert of 2016, with the composer conducting his peers. The work is intended to have fun par...

Commissioned by the Durham Middle School Wind Ensemble in Lewisville, Texas, in the Fall of 2019, for its first performance under their new Director, Ms. Ellie Murphy, Kings and Angels Dancing begins...

Imagine strolling along the trail through a bucolic countryside on a sunny spring day, whistling all the way. The Penny Whistle Song conjures that very mood, featuring a trio of flutes on the melody w...

This work was written by Leroy Anderson in 1951 and premiered by him when he recorded it for Decca. Interestingly, in 1956 the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps of Rockford, Illinois changed their...

Springing out of his teenage imagination, No-Name Star waited sixteen years before Pablo Rojas decided he had gathered enough tools in his musical chest to construct it. Although the work finds an int...

FORGOTTEN DREAMS was completed on May 28, 1954. The first performance was a few days later on June 2nd during a recording session for Delta Records in New York, at which time Leroy Anderson performed...

CONCERTINO FOR BASSOON, Opus 171 was commissioned by Dr. Mark Rogers and was premiered in April 2023 by the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Dr. Paul Popiel conductor, with Eric Stomberg playing ba...

Composed during the summer and fall of 1974, Barnes' FIRST SYMPHONY, Op. 35 was his master's thesis at The University of Kansas. It was premiered in the spring semester of 1976 by their Symphonic Band...

Gillis' BALLET FOR BAND is music of the 20th century. The score is endlessly inventive and richly colored, with scoring for the full palette of sounds available in the symphonic wind band. The score c...

The work is a tribute to middle school band director Dennis Bartelheim, who spent his entire career teaching at Edgewood Middle School in Wooster, OH. Few people make this type of commitment to one sc...

MAJESTIC is an energetic work intended to showcase the dramatic potential and immense emotional and rhythmic drive of the modern wind band. Fanfare-like passages in the brass intermix with virtuosic w...

Rhythmic, incisive, and energetic, Juilare is truly a jubilant work that will open or close a concert with an emphatic statement. From beginning to end, this is perpetual movement and excitement.

Gottschalk didn't live long enough to leave a large catalogue, but the works he brought to the public were quite popular in their day. This is one of his more well-known works, skillfully rendered for...

This is a fresh and invigorating work that will add sparkle to any program. A rare work from a little known, yet significant, French woman composer.

The spirit of adventure is accurately portrayed in this grade 3 tour de force. It has all the elements players and conductors love: excitement, bold sounds, and interesting harmonies; yet, it avoids t...

D-Day, June 6, 1944. A fateful day and the turning point of World War II. A day that has only gained importance and reverence over the years. It was a day that we should never forget; for lives that w...

The clarinet part does not cross the break, trumpets range only to second space A (with an optional C sharp) for trumpet 1, there's plenty of percussion if needed (use or subtract as necessary!). Over...

A Latin-feel means you can use a lot of percussion players, all playing within grade level. Single parts for all instruments afford confidence and solidity to students. There are only a few divisi not...

Written in 1916, THE AMERICAN COLORS is a patriotic and vivacious splash of Americana. It is highly original and, as was often done during the composer's time, quotes COLUMBIA, GEM OF THE OCEAN in the...

Evocative and retrospective, MOONSET is a highly original work for concert band. It explores soundscapes in unique manner and serves as an excellent work for contest or festival or just as that someth...