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The most well-known of the Elgar's six marches, March No. 1 in D was completed in July 1901. Its central melody hails from before these dates, and as Elgar told a friend, "I've got a tune that will kn...

The most well-known of the Elgar's six marches, March No. 1 in D, was completed in July 1901. Its central melody hails from before these dates, and as Elgar told a friend, 'I've got a tune that will k...

Of all four marches that came after the overwhelmingly successful No. 1, March No. 4 seems to many people to be most closely related in general effect to the first. Just why this should be so is diffi...

This music was commissioned as the opening and closing theme for MBS Television in Japan, and recorded for this purpose by the Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band on February 19, 2001, under the composer's...

This music was commissioned as the opening and closing theme for MBS Television in Japan, and recorded for this purpose by the Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band on February 19, 2001, under the composer's...

Georges Bizet composed L'Arlésienne as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as "The Girl from Arles." This transcription for advance band was made by Charles...

While the original piano version of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION remained unpublished at the time of Mussorgsky's death, the work was orchestrated by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov and published in 1886, alt...

Mussorgky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" has long held a place of interest in the collective minds of bandsmen. This fine transcription allows today's mature concert bands to perform the Baba Yaga and...

Mussorgky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" has long held a place of interest in the collective minds of bandsmen. This fine transcription allows today's mature concert bands to perform the Baba Yaga and...

Based on the Lutheran hymn Nu komm, der Heiden Heiland, this work is a transcription of the second movement of the composer's String Sextet. The hymn tune acts as a cantus firmus most of the time as t...

Based on the Lutheran hymn Nu komm, der Heiden Heiland, this work is a transcription of the second movement of the composer's String Sextet. The hymn tune acts as a cantus firmus most of the time as t...

Each of the three movements of this work uses a particular section of the North Texas State Alma Mater as its formative material, since it was commissioned in honor of Dennis Fisher and his 25 years o...

Beginning with a stately drum roll-off, Alla marcia may seem like an ordinary march. It doesn't take long after the trumpets announce the military style melody to see that the work is 'like a march' i...

Beginning with a stately drum roll-off, Alla marcia may seem like an ordinary march. It doesn't take long after the trumpets announce the military style melody to see that the work is 'like a march' i...

Scored for brass choir, percussion, and organ, this work is in three movements: 1. Renaissance Dance, 2. Romance, and 3. Toccata. Duration ca. 14'

Scored for brass choir, percussion, and organ, this work is in three movements: 1. Renaissance Dance, 2. Romance, and 3. Toccata. Duration ca. 14'

Commissioned by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, this work is subtitled "A Symphonic Rhapsody for Concert Band based on Canadian Indian themes." Wapawekka, in the language of the Cree Indians, means "whit...

The SLAVONIC FOLK SUITE is an arrangement of a part of Reed's RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS MUSIC, one of the most frequently performed works of concert band literature. It is a moving, powerful, and beautiful pi...

Born just outside of Chicago, Richard E. Maltby Sr. served as a trumpeter, conductor, arranger, and bandleader over his long career, which included working with or arranging for such artists as Paul W...

Born just outside of Chicago, Richard E. Maltby Sr. served as a trumpeter, conductor, arranger, and bandleader over his long career, which included working with or arranging for such artists as Paul W...

Subtitled "A Tone Poem to New York," both band and orchestra versions are available from the publisher.

Commissioned in 1972 by the North Hills High School Symphonic Band in Pittsburgh, PA. Concertante for Wind Instruments is a rare foray by the composer into 12-tone composition. It is in two contrastin...

Morton Gould was a truly "American" composer, which is reflected in virtually every aspect of his music. The Child Prodigy, originally written for piano, is here arranged for Piano and Band by Philip...