Concert Band Sheet Music from Ludwig Music Publishing Company

Also available as a novelty for soloist and orchestra, this is a fun and entertaining piece. The clarinet soloist, after stating the theme, proceeds to take away pieces of the instrument until, eventu...

Replete with the stark harmonies and driving rhythms young players love, Odyssey can invoke images of an epic journey. It can also be one of your most effective teaching tools along the epic journey f...

Experienced educator Doug Bradley gives us another tool for building bands and band programs. Exciting music, engaging rhythms and enthralled audiences are just a part of the package…the cowbell makes...

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...

The spoken word is an excellent tool for teaching rhythm. Combined with an easily mastered musical vocabulary, it can lead a group to an excellent performance now and in the future. Alligator Stomp by...

The opera "II Guarany" was produced with great success at La Scala in Milan on March 17, 1870. Giuseppe Verdi wrote that the opera was the work of a "true musical genius." Although the style and libre...

Funiculi, Funicula by Luigi Denza is one of the most famous of all Italian street songs. In this arrangement for band, Philip J. Lang has recreated the driving festival spirit with exciting coloration...

Johannes Brahms was not a religious man in the usual sense of the term, so it should be of no surprise that when he wrote the German Requiem; it did not follow the prescribed five movement form of the...

American composer and band director John Joseph Morrissey (1906-1993) served as an officer in the music branch of the U.S. Army Special Services during World War II before beginning a long career as h...

Troldhaugen, or "knoll of the trolls," was the name given to the villa where Grieg lived from 1885 until his death. This work began as a piano piece intended to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his...

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

Clever and tongue-in-cheek, Bumper Cars infuses people of all ages with the joyful spirit of amusement parks.

Sousa was so enamored of Jerome Kern's tune that he arranged it for his band immediately after it became public. He included excerpts from There Is a Tavern in the Town to gently poke fun at Prohibiti...

The most teachable point in this early band masterpiece by Terry White lies in the realm of dynamics. Some range elements make The Beauty of Their Dreams more suitable for the middle or end of the fir...

An exciting opener or closer for a second-year concert, Triple Trouble's 12/8 meter is simple and repetitive enough to be easy to play but not boring. Trombones will have to learn long positions for t...

Clever and tongue-in-cheek, Bumper Cars infuses people of all ages with the joyful spirit of amusement parks.

This has more familiar melodies than a Saturday Morning cartoon! Delight your audience with this madcap mashup, the perfect way to lighten the concert's mood. Songs included in this medley: The Marine...

Originally composed in 1911, the work was written for a circus band of about fifteen players. In this new and updated edition, the melodic and harmonic content of the march has been maintained while b...

A delightful 6/8 march that is playable by youngsters, this work features the sound of your concert band marching! Ranges are conservative, length and endurance being the primary difficulty. It's trul...

No historical source shows this march was ever broadcast, but the composer captures the spirit of early broadcasts in this insightful six-eight march. It's a real "Jewell!"

You'll find this wonderfully melodic, rhythmically inventive march for players at several levels of skill. It opens in 6/8 before closing in 2/4, with interest for everyone involved.

Originally composed in 1911, the work was written for a circus band of about fifteen players. In this new and updated edition, the melodic and harmonic content of the march has been maintained while b...

Driving snow with gusty winds and bone-chilling cold are fascinating and beautiful . . . when you're indoors with a cup of hot chocolate! Alternatively, you could be playing Terry White's programmatic...

A lilting 6/8 march from America's best-known musician, Right Left March takes its title from the steps a marching band takes on rests in the Trio. Just to make sure they're all together, the musician...

First released in 1983, this suite of four Polish Christmas carols, repeats the first movement (a fanfare titled The Triumph of the King in Heaven) as a fifth movement. This new edition of the work pr...