Concert Band Sheet Music from Southern Music Company

This all-new setting of Robert Russell Bennett's enchanting Many Moods of Christmas, Suite No. 1 for wind band alone, consists of approximately eight of the original twelve minutes of the original sui...

The perfect first-concert tune, Castlewood is melodic, energetic, and right in the wheelhouse of first-year players. Claves and tambourine are introduced, so there is a little something for the percus...

In 1946, George Walker was still doing graduate work at the Curtis institute when he composed Lyric for Strings, which would prove over the coming decades to become one of the most performed and endur...

Hope Arises is one of two new works requested in 2021 of composer James Barnes by Colonel Donald Schofield, to be written for the United States Air Force Band. It is a short piece intended to be used...

Springing out of his teenage imagination, No-Name Star waited sixteen years before Pablo Rojas decided he had gathered enough tools in his musical chest to construct it. Although the work finds an int...

FORGOTTEN DREAMS was completed on May 28, 1954. The first performance was a few days later on June 2nd during a recording session for Delta Records in New York, at which time Leroy Anderson performed...

CONCERTINO FOR BASSOON, Opus 171 was commissioned by Dr. Mark Rogers and was premiered in April 2023 by the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Dr. Paul Popiel conductor, with Eric Stomberg playing ba...

Composed during the summer and fall of 1974, Barnes' FIRST SYMPHONY, Op. 35 was his master's thesis at The University of Kansas. It was premiered in the spring semester of 1976 by their Symphonic Band...

Gillis' BALLET FOR BAND is music of the 20th century. The score is endlessly inventive and richly colored, with scoring for the full palette of sounds available in the symphonic wind band. The score c...

The work is a tribute to middle school band director Dennis Bartelheim, who spent his entire career teaching at Edgewood Middle School in Wooster, OH. Few people make this type of commitment to one sc...

MAJESTIC is an energetic work intended to showcase the dramatic potential and immense emotional and rhythmic drive of the modern wind band. Fanfare-like passages in the brass intermix with virtuosic w...

Rhythmic, incisive, and energetic, Juilare is truly a jubilant work that will open or close a concert with an emphatic statement. From beginning to end, this is perpetual movement and excitement.

Gottschalk didn't live long enough to leave a large catalogue, but the works he brought to the public were quite popular in their day. This is one of his more well-known works, skillfully rendered for...

This is a fresh and invigorating work that will add sparkle to any program. A rare work from a little known, yet significant, French woman composer.

The spirit of adventure is accurately portrayed in this grade 3 tour de force. It has all the elements players and conductors love: excitement, bold sounds, and interesting harmonies; yet, it avoids t...

D-Day, June 6, 1944. A fateful day and the turning point of World War II. A day that has only gained importance and reverence over the years. It was a day that we should never forget; for lives that w...

The clarinet part does not cross the break, trumpets range only to second space A (with an optional C sharp) for trumpet 1, there's plenty of percussion if needed (use or subtract as necessary!). Over...

A Latin-feel means you can use a lot of percussion players, all playing within grade level. Single parts for all instruments afford confidence and solidity to students. There are only a few divisi not...

Written in 1916, THE AMERICAN COLORS is a patriotic and vivacious splash of Americana. It is highly original and, as was often done during the composer's time, quotes COLUMBIA, GEM OF THE OCEAN in the...

Evocative and retrospective, MOONSET is a highly original work for concert band. It explores soundscapes in unique manner and serves as an excellent work for contest or festival or just as that someth...

Conservative ranges, easy rhythms, and plenty of percussion make this an easily accessible piece for that first concert. There is only one line per part for all of the woodwinds and brass, so there is...

Alfred Reed composed Five Dances for Five Clarinets in 1956 at the request of the LeBlanc instrument company to introduce the performance capabilities and tone of each instrument of the clarinet famil...

A Child's Embrace was written to commemorate the birth of the composer's first child, Katherine Anne Young, who was born on January 18, 2000. It has been scored in such a way as to permit performances...

From Grainger: Gum-suckers is a nick-name for Australians hailing from the state of Victoria, the home state of the composer. The leaves of the 'gum' (Eucalyptus) trees are very refreshing to suck in...