Master Band Series - LudwigMasters

Written as a memorial piece, this is unlike most. Highly energetic and vibrant, this work displays vivid contrasts between winds and percussion as it drives relentlessly from start to finish.

Written as a memorial piece, this is unlike most. Highly energetic and vibrant, this work displays vivid contrasts between winds and percussion as it drives relentlessly from start to finish.

A fascinating and most creative work! Starting out in 2/4 meter, an eighth note is added to the meter of each successive movement (2/4, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8). The melodies are very musical and dance-like, wi...

Provide a marvelous repose on your next concert program with this lyrical ballad. Written with the beauty only a mature writer can bring to the table, Song for Lyndsay is in essence a simple love song...

Provide a marvelous repose on your next concert program with this lyrical ballad. Written with the beauty only a mature writer can bring to the table, Song for Lyndsay is in essence a simple love song...

Kenneth Singleton offers this simply spectacular transcription of one of Tchaikovsky's most famous works. This is an amazingly powerful and varied work, from the intense, subdued largo to the world-re...

Kenneth Singleton offers this simply spectacular transcription of one of Tchaikovsky's most famous works. This is an amazingly powerful and varied work, from the intense, subdued largo to the world-re...

Richard Wagner composed the Huldigungsmarsch (Homage March) for King Ludwig II for his nineteenth birthday on August 25th, 1864. This edition by Alfred Reed is rescored for symphonic band.

Richard Wagner composed the Huldigungsmarsch (Homage March) for King Ludwig II for his nineteenth birthday on August 25th, 1864. This edition by Alfred Reed is rescored for symphonic band.

Nabucco is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, Jeremiah, Lame...

Nabucco is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, Jeremiah, Lame...

Sinfonia in B-flat Minor, Op. 153 was composed in 1872 for the Cremona Civic Band, directed by Amilcare Ponchielli himself. He composed more than seventy original works and transcriptions for the ense...

Sinfonia in B-flat Minor, Op. 153 was composed in 1872 for the Cremona Civic Band, directed by Amilcare Ponchielli himself. He composed more than seventy original works and transcriptions for the ense...

This work for solo cornet/trumpet and concert band, dedicated to Leonard B. Smith, was written in 1943 by the prominent band composer and founder of the American Bandmasters Association, Edwin Franko...

This work for solo cornet/trumpet and concert band, dedicated to Leonard B. Smith, was written in 1943 by the prominent band composer and founder of the American Bandmasters Association, Edwin Franko...

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.

Rossini's "Barber Of Seville" is one of the most famous and beloved operas of all time, and this fine transcription brings all the magic to the concert band idiom. Experienced bands will find this a d...

Rossini's "Barber Of Seville" is one of the most famous and beloved operas of all time, and this fine transcription brings all the magic to the concert band idiom. Experienced bands will find this a d...

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...

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...

The "Guaracha" is the Third Movement from Mr. Gould's fourth Symphonette, LATIN AMERICAN SYMPHONETTE, which is in four movements - Rhumba, Tango, Guaracha, and Conga. The "Guaracha," relatively speaki...

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...

As a composer with great skills and an avowed desire to artfully combine traditional band forms and formats with contemporary techniques and colors, Tom Duffy has fashioned this one-movement tone poem...