Master Band Series - LudwigMasters

Carlos Chavez conducted the first performance of Oberatura Republicana (Republican Overture) in 1935, and in 1963, he made a version for wind ensemble and renamed it Chapultepec after the park in the...

Carlos Chavez conducted the first performance of Oberatura Republicana (Republican Overture) in 1935, and in 1963, he made a version for wind ensemble and renamed it Chapultepec after the park in the...

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...

Composed by the cornet virtuoso W. Paris Chambers of "Chicago Tribune" fame, this brilliant march is a great opener or closer!

This work is unique in that the first movement is for solo trombone and band; the second is for trombone duet and band; and the final movement is for three trombones and band.

Written between October 1809 and June 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Egmont, Op. 84 is a set of ten incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....

"Leatherneck" being a slang term for a Marine, this march was written for the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

Starting quietly and slowly rising to a massive crescendo before returning to a quiet exit, this work makes use of a single and beautiful dynamic arc. It is a perfect contest selection for the interme...

Starting quietly and slowly rising to a massive crescendo before returning to a quiet exit, this work makes use of a single and beautiful dynamic arc. It is a perfect contest selection for the interme...

Scriabin's Opus 9 consists of a Prelude and Nocturne written for piano left-hand alone. The composer's early piano works, such as this, reflect his most delicate and poetical composition. This publica...

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...

Rahoon is a rapsodic work for clarinet solo and band by Alfred Reed. Using a poem by James Joyce, a haunting lament to a dead lover called "She Weeps Over Rahoon," as the basis, the work was commmissi...

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

The rhythm of the dance animates this Suite arranged by Philip Gordon, reflecting the carefree, light-hearted spirit of the French court during the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV. All three composers...

Alfred Reed created this setting of The Pledge of Allegiance for Band in conjuction with either unison Voices or Mixed Chorus.

Alfred Reed created this setting of The Pledge of Allegiance for Band in conjuction with either unison Voices or Mixed Chorus.

Commissioned by the Unites States Air Force Academy Cadet Welfare Fune in commemoration of the Academy's tenth anniversary.  Although an overture, it was suggested that a slow, hymn-like section...

Commissioned by the Unites States Air Force Academy Cadet Welfare Fune in commemoration of the Academy's tenth anniversary.  Although an overture, it was suggested that a slow, hymn-like section...

Commissioned in the late Fall of 1975, work on the SECOND SYMPHONY was not begun until the Summer of 1977, when the score was completed in sketch form in three months, July through September. The inst...

Written by Alfred Reed, THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, a Mystic Idyl is drawn from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." It is an attempt to portray in purely musical terms the moody, mysterious setti...

Originally written for orchestra in 1983 through a commission from the Okayama University Symphony Orchestra, this beautiful transcription for wind band was completed by the composer. For more advance...

Originally written for orchestra in 1983 through a commission from the Okayama University Symphony Orchestra, this beautiful transcription for wind band was completed by the composer. For more advance...

Originally written for orchestra in 1983 through a commission from the Okayama University Symphony Orchestra, this beautiful transcription for wind band was completed by the composer. For more advance...

Beyond is passionate and grand music, full of sweeping melodies and brass fanfares, in the composer's modern Hollywood style.

Beyond is passionate and grand music, full of sweeping melodies and brass fanfares, in the composer's modern Hollywood style.