Concert Band Sheet Music from Ludwig Music Publishing Company

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...

Your young players will love this clever arrangement, whether you use the narration or not. Exploring the musical sounds of different cultures through a familiar carol is an intriguing way to introduc...

Your students bring the sights and sounds of a monster wood rollercoaster into the concert hall in this pleaser from Dan Adams. Keep your hands inside the car at all times, because this is the next be...

With clanks, bangs, clatters, and whistles as building blocks, Andrew Balent has crafted the ideal tool for your young percussionists. Beginning instrumentalists will find a fascinating world of tone...

Brilliantly transcribed for younger players by Aric Branchfield, Holst's timeless melody affords the conductor/teacher with a wealth of teaching opportunity. Inherently beautiful, the work will mesmer...

The title explains just what is going to happen as you open with this thriller for young band. Rob Foster shows an intimate knowledge of the grade 1 band and its capabilities.  It is equally at h...

Shiver me timbers, matey! What a terrific training work for young band and wouldn't you, the conductor, cut a swashbuckling figure in a tri-cornered hat and eye patch with a parrot on your shoulder? (...

With this fine arrangement, conductors can teach a variety of skills from swing style to solo playing with ease and humor. The tune is one recognized around the world but scored with a fresh approach...

This isn't a processional march, but it could easily serve as one, for it captures the pomp and pageantry of a royal procession. This is an expressive and compelling work for very young players.

Can your band save the world from these eerie invaders from somewhere in outer space? Using only seven notes, some humorous vocal effects, and an easy way to learn about dynamic contrast, this is the...

The image of a band of centipedes marching down the street in band uniforms, struggling to keep all their legs in step is an excellent method by which to introduce your students to sixteenth notes. Wi...

From the pen of Aric Branchfield comes this exotic and exciting work that conveys the drama of the high seas in the days of pirate and buccaneers. It is just the work to capture the imaginations and e...

Cold, biting, incessant -- these are the characteristics of the brutal winds of the Artic region. The bold, invigorating rhythms of this composition trigger images of this wind in the listener's mind...

Capturing the pomp and pageantry of a royal coronation, this original march has plenty of teaching points, yet can still be performed with a minimum of rehearsal time.

Conservative ranges, easy rhythms, and a beautiful melody make this work an ideal training piece for the young band. There are only two styles of articulation, the melody appears in every wind part, a...

Sinister, dark, and downright creepy... your beginners will love it! This piece uses nothing more complex than two eighth notes with no dotted notes or syncopations. The ranges are conservative so it...

The forces of nature that come into play over the oceans of the earth are both awe-inspiring and fear-inducing. Yet, they remain oddly benevolent. Thus it is with this forceful work: it sounds difficu...

An ideal early-in-the-year selection that features idiomatic writing, conservative ranges, very few eighth notes, and no divided sections. There are plenty of teaching points, from music history and s...

Riding in a sleigh across snowy fields and roadways seems hard-wired into our consciousness. Even if we've never experienced it, it seems as real as anything! The snap of the cold, the crack of the wh...

Sustained, beautiful playing is perhaps the most difficult skill to teach young musicians. That makes a chorale at the grade 1 level a valuable commodity. Conservative ranges, no technical difficultie...

This treatment of an African American spiritual, "The Gospel Train," also known as "Get On Board," is a treat for young players. It has a melody they may well know that lies well for their instruments...

Seldom do young students get to perform music by the master composers. Hymn of Freedom from Brahms' first symphony is an exception. Of sublime beauty, the theme has been arranged by Robert Longfield i...

An exciting new work from the pen of Aric Branchfield, Into the Deep is an exercise in syncopation. There is a middle passage that sounds slower because of the note values, but the work remains at a c...

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...

This piece has everything the grade 1 conductor is looking for: safe and solid scoring, limited and comfortable ranges, enough percussion to keep the section busy and out of trouble, and exciting them...