Master Band Series - LudwigMasters

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...

Clarinet Escapade by Russell Ward, is designed to present to the audience the virtuosity of the clarinet section of a concert band. The clarinet passages convey an impression of great technical diffic...

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...

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.

This medley of George M. Cohan (1878-1942) tunes includes "Yankee Doodle Boy" (from Little Johnny Jones) and "You're a Grand Old Flag" (from George M!). Arranged by Walter Ehret and Paul Yoder, this a...

This medley of George M. Cohan (1878-1942) tunes includes "Yankee Doodle Boy" (from Little Johnny Jones) and "You're a Grand Old Flag" (from George M!). Arranged by Walter Ehret and Paul Yoder, this a...

Alfred Reed created this setting of THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE for Band in conjuction with either unison Voices or Mixed Chorus. A version for Orchestra is also available. The corresponding choral score...

Alfred Reed created this setting of THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE for Band in conjuction with either unison Voices or Mixed Chorus. A version for Orchestra is also available. The corresponding choral score...

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 be inc...

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...

In collaboration with his brother, James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond composed the music for "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in 1899 to accompany James's lyrics. First performed in February 1900 by 500 sch...

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 setting that is...

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...

El Cóndor Pasa (The Condor Passes), composed by Peruvian songwriter Daniel Alomìa Robles, is a musical play known as a zarzuela.. Its parade scene features the eponymous orchestral piece, which was fi...

El Cóndor Pasa (The Condor Passes), composed by Peruvian songwriter Daniel Alomìa Robles, is a musical play known as a zarzuela.. Its parade scene features the eponymous orchestral piece, which was fi...

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...