LudwigMasters Concert Band

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The spirit of the United States of America does not lie dormant only to arise every one hundred years. The spirit of this land is always present in the hearts and minds of its citizens. This piece inv...

The spirit of the United States of America does not lie dormant only to arise every one hundred years. The spirit of this land is always present in the hearts and minds of its citizens. This piece inv...

Subtitled "A Sylvan Serenade for Winds After Shakespeare's 'As You Like It,'" Rosalind in the Forest of Arden was dedicated to William H. Sylvester and the Eastern Wind Symphony.

FANFARE, SONG AND FUGUE was composed to provide a contemporary work for bands with limited facility.  In effect, this is a young band composition that retains the characteristics of Jack Stamp's...

Although best known for his circus and university marches, King also composed regimental style marches. This classic, composed while he was playing baritone horn in the Thayer Military Band in Canton,...

A musical portrait of three of this composer's best loved melodies, the arrangement includes the main themes from Marche Slav and Swan Lake and the famous waltz from Sleeping Beauty. This edition will...

A lively suite of American folksongs, skillfully arranged for concert band. The three movements include Blow the Candles Out, the ballad Winter's Night, and the well-known fiddle tune Sourwood Mountai...

Originally published under the pseudonym Carl Lawrence, The Flying Squadron march is in the distinctive King style. Composed during his days as a circus musician, it contains all of the melodic and rh...

Haunting sounds and eerie effects describe the stone sentinels that dot the landscape of historic New Hampshire. The music resonates with the sounds of aging graveyards, some sacred in nature and some...

The Welsh, as a nation, have given the world some of the most beautiful folk songs. This suite includes three of the better-known tunes in a colorful arrangement for symphonic band: I. Jenny Jones; II...

The Aria in this suite is taken from Handel's opera RINALDO, his first work in London (1710), and the March and Chorus are from one of his OCCASIONAL ORATORIOS, which were produced in 1747 - Handel's...

Considered to be one of Mozart's most important works, Trauermusik was written late in the composer's career. Without changing Eric Osterling's masterful transcription, this re-release with newly engr...

This suite, as the name implies, is polyphonic in texture, so each voice is an independent melody. Movements: 1. Motet, 2. Chorale, 3. Madrigal.

Mozart wrote the Viennese Sonatinas in Vienna in 1783. Some of the sonatinas first appeared as ensembles for two Clarinets and Bassoon but were later transcribed for Piano. The original manuscripts ar...

Johannes Brahms was not a religious man in the usual sense of the term, so it should be of no surprise that when he wrote the "German Requiem," it did not follow the prescribed five movement...

One of the many great masterpieces by J.S. Bach, these transcribed organ works (known as 'The Great' Fugue) are wonderful pieces to hear and play. Carefully edited for the colors available in wind ban...

This classic of the Ludwig Music library is a wonderful reworking of one of Richard Strauss' lovely and haunting early art songs. The wind band arrangement is extremely respectful of the original work...

Written as a tribute to a high school band director killed in a car accident three months after starting his first teaching job, this work is sensitive without being maudlin. A great combination of cl...

Dana Wilson always strives to introduce students and audiences to new ways of thinking about music and performance practices. This work serves somewhat as an incantation, a summoning up of, by means o...

This is an attractive rhapsody of songs which were popular with sailors during the grand era of 'wooden ships and iron men.' Short solos are included for numerous instruments along with extensive perc...

Columbian is one of King's great mid-level marches. Composed early in his career, it is brimming with all of the characteristics which have made his marches favorites with bands for almost a century:...