Advanced Sheet Music for Concert Band

Using a chamber music approach to scoring for wind ensemble, the transcriber has here created a very authentic wind setting of three Brahms orchestral dances. For advanced groups with strong players i...

The attacks in Brussels on 22 March 2016 created a shockwave throughout Belgium and the rest of the world. Equally, the attacks in Paris and Nice led to great public indignation, fear and disbelief. B...

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

Bob Vos (1910-1963) was a Dutch composer who studied composition with Henk Badings at the Brussels Conservatory from 1957. Unfortunately, little is known about his early years, but his work shows a cl...

Die Worte zum Lied 'Funiculý Funicula' stammen von dem italienischen Journalisten Peppino Turco und wurden 1880 von Luigi Denza vertont, um damit die Eröffnung der Seilbahn auf den Vesuv zu feiern. Ob...

As in the original soundtrack from The Terminal, a featured solo clarinet is used to portray the warmth and friendliness of the main character Viktor Navorsky. This appealing dance-lke composition als...

The legendary comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin is the author of a series of immortal films in which music plays a rather important role. Chaplin, who played the violin and the cello, wrote various mus...

Dancing on the Sand immerses us in an unmistakable oriental atmosphere. A moderate introduction underscored by percussions sets the scene. A short alto saxophone cadenza leads to the second part of th...

In composing Puszta, Jan Van der Roost wrote folk dances related to Slavonic folk music. Its character and sounds are comparable to the Hungarian and Slavonic dances by Brahms and Dvorak and to the Hu...

Program Notes POSTCARD was commissioned by my friend, colleague, and former mentor, H. Robert Reynolds, in memory of his mother, Ethel Virginia Curry. He requested that I compose not an elegy commemor...

Ich komponierte 'Crossbreed' als Auftrag zum 1250-jährigen Jubiläum der Stadt Ellwangen für das Jugendblasorchester Ellwangen mit seinem Dirigenten Herrn Wendelin Dauser. Nach sehr intensiver Beschäft...

5 p.m., downtown: rush hour. Hundreds of cars, bicycles and pedestrians romp about at the big intersection. Now of all times, the traffic light is out. A single traffic policeman with a whistle is now...

The present composition is not a work inspired by the life of the famous painter, but rather an attempt at pictorial immersion in his world. In addition to Van Gogh's nature and tragic life, his paint...

Cell phones play an important role in Scrollmania. The piece is about the chaos of being online, about endless scrolling and all the stimuli that come with it. This is why QR codes appear at various p...

The Producers is a musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film of the same name, with lyrics written by Brooks and music composed by Brooks and arranged by Glen Kelly and Do...

Rhapsody is not a programmatic work, but one that spontaneously turns into a natural musical journey. André Waignein showcases and explores both the technical prowess and the expressive nature of the...

This work was written especially for the Belgian trombonist Ben Haemhouts and was created on Dec. 29, 1998 in Ravels. Colors for trombone is a virtuous composition based on four colors, 'Yellow', 'Red...

The three sections of this masterwork (I. Intrada, II. Serenade, and III. Scherzo) challenge and excite while traveling through a variety of meter changes. Impressive!

This extremely effective and witty composition is now presented with extended instrumentation for a modern symphonic wind orchestra. Stravinsky's deliberately smaller original arrangement remains reco...

The 'Pagan Dances' completes the cycle of four 'primitive' works for symphonic band that also includes 'Visions Macabre', 'Invocation and Toccata' and 'Torch Dance'. All of these works employ highly d...

A Divertimento for Wind Orchestra My "Five Pillars, A Divertimento for Wind Orchestra" is based on five keywords chosen by members of the Marktmusikkapelle Timelkam (Austria) that they associate with...

Donald Hunsberger's classic edition of this Shostakovich masterpiece has already established itself as abasic repertoire for wind bands. This exciting and masterful work is a wonderful way to showcase...