Concert Marches for Concert Band

This incredibly well-written work for beginning players lives up to its title! Your young musicians will absolutelty love this heroic piece that sounds like it was written as the score to a movie abou...

The beauty and majesty that is planet Earth comes to life through soaring fanfares, delicate melodic lines, bold harmonies and colorful orchestrations all while being carefully scored to be accessible...

This landmark work for beginning groups helped to set the standard for music at this level. Boldly written to include dissonances, varied scoring effects, and driving rhythmic ostinatos, Michael Sween...

MusicWorks ¯ Grade 1¶Rarely does any single publication have such an effect on band literature as this unique and striking composition from 1994. Individually, the parts are relatively simple. Yet the...

Beginning groups will love this unique programmatic suite of four short movements, each of which portrays a well known prehistoric creature (or two!). Clever and very easy, it includes: Stegosaurus, B...

Written in a romantic/heroic style, this impressive overture from Rossano Galante features sweeping and lush melodies along with brilliant brass fanfares and woodwind flourishes. For the mature ensemb...

Composed as a reverent memorial for an inspirational musician and educator, Existence Infinite is the composer's way of conveying the sense of loss, but also the emotional healing that follows. Featur...

The Troll Circle is an attempt at a musical portrayal of the plot in Sigurd Hoel's novel of the same name. We meet the young man Håvard from Telemark, who arrives in a rural village in Eastern Norway...

Wonderful Peace was composed by Swedish composer Gustaf Nordqvist in 1921 and is one of the most well-known Swedish Christmas songs. It has been recorded by artists such as Sissel Kyrkjebø, The Real G...

David Foster (born 1949) is a Canadian record producer, composer, arranger and musician. His career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s before focusing largely on compo...

Romance and Scherzo is, as the name suggests, a short piece in two movements: A charming Romance and a dramatic Scherzo. The piece is originally for cornet and piano, and was written around 1900. In m...

Festive Music, Op. 25 was composed for the inauguration of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1908. The commission however caused concern for Alfvén until he paid Verner von Heidenstam a visit. The poet wa...

When I was a music student in Bergen in the late 1980s, conductor, arranger, and educator Tom Brevik commissioned me to arrange two folk tune suites for all young bands. The idea behind the suites was...

When I was a music student in Bergen in the late 1980s, conductor, arranger, and educator Tom Brevik commissioned me to arrange two folk tune suites for all young bands. The idea behind the suites was...

Folk tunes were collected as a part of building Norway as a independent country. Fiddlers and folk singers learned from each other. In the early 19 hundredth recordings were used to collect tunes and...

Brout was commissioned by Jane Westervik and Krohnengen Brass Band for KBB Ung. A famous Norwegian folk tune is used in this fun piece. It's about a he-goat that was stolen and slaughtered. The fanfa...

The most well-known piece by Owe Green is "By the end of the day", composed as the finale for the Skövde Tattoo in 1973. In this paraphrase, Lina Sandell's hymn "Bred dina vingar" ("Spread your wide w...

On the slopes of Billingen, north of Skövde, lies the farm Lagmansboda, where Green and his family often celebrated Midsummer. In 1971, he composed the "Lagmansboda Suite", comprising three movements:...

Song from Utanmyra is a Swedish folk melody that gained renewed popularity after jazz musician Jan Johansson recorded it on the album "Jazz på svenska" in 1964. Bjørn Linderoth wrote the lyrics that a...

Suite for Baritone & Concert Band was written as a tribute to my first trombone teacher, Svein Thorolf Berg. He performed it with Skeiene Janitsjar, a concert band with a reduced instrumentation. For...

This suite was composed in the winter of 2024, for the junior band of Tjøme skolemusikk. The different movements describe the challenges and joys of winter and the cold season: 1. Snow 2. Freezing Col...

JUBILEE SALUTE was commisioned by Bispehaugen Ungdomskorps for the band´s 100-years celebration in 2023. The composition has two main themes; theme A (Allegro) from bar 13, and theme B (Andante) from...

This piece, which is familiar to many schoolchildren, is arranged with a limited instrumentation, suitable also for smaller bands. It works well with as few as 2 clarinets, 2 cornets and 1 baritone/tr...

Molinasque is a grotesque dance full of speed and excitement. The fun almost bubbles over. "Grotesk" refers to the caricatured and exaggerated. Heavier instrumentation, darker timbre and rhythmic irre...

5 Songs for Wind Ensemble are, as the title suggests, five short pieces for concert band. They range from everyday miniatures to more introspective works. The first, "To reach for fire," is built on m...