Concert Music Sheet Music

The pleasure of waking up on your day off. No school and all the time in the world to do what you want. The members of your band will recognise this feeling in the atmosphere that the composer of this...

Little (solo) material is available for the novice kettledrummer. Your kettledrummer will be thrilled with the star part this composition allows him or her to play. Kettledrum Overture is a classic o...

During the eighteenth century a person called 'the Dance Master' made his appearance in Ireland. He was a travelling dance-teacher, who moved from one village to another to teach the people there how...

Is there something to be celebrated? Then let's play 'Let's Celebrate'! This four-part suite has been based on two birthday songs: the world-famous 'Happy Birthday to you' (which is also sung in many...

Oxygen (2004) is a short composition for fanfare orchestra, constructed with elements from rock and popular music. The composer used funky rhythms, jazzy harmonies and pulsating rock to illuminate the...

Jubilant Prelude' is an orchestration of the 'Preludium over Psalm 150' originally composed for organ by Toon Hagen. Since 1998 Toon Hagen has been organ-player of the 'Grote or Sint Michaëlskerk' in...

Mixed Bag' stands midway between a collection and a hotchpotch. It is a colourful compilation of four completely different pieces, each with its own specific character. The first part is called 'Tang...

A sensitive arrangement of the well loved hymn 'Spirit of the Living God'.

Glitter and glamour, good-looking people, a lot of Bling Bling and fast cars images like these will cross our minds when we think of the movie world. However, reality proves to be different : as a rul...

Panem et Circenses', Bread and Games were essential for keeping the citizens of ancient Rome in check. While the bread was meant for the poorest among the Romans, the Games were Popular Pastime Number...

In the tripartite 'Cowboy Suite' Alan Laken takes us to the Wild West, the domain of cowboys, indians, trappers and other fortune hunters. Around 1890 the west coast of America was reached, which in e...

As he did before in the often played and commonly appreciated 'Lord Tullamore', in which he poetically depicted the landscape and the cultural elements of a small Irish village, in his composition 'Th...

The young have the future. This is the statement made at the beginning of 'Like a Child' by Andreas Ludwig Schulte. The opening radiates strength and ambition, but one is also made to wonder which dir...

Rond de vorige millennium wissel zijn vele blaasorkesten ontstaan. Zo ook in het Friese dorpje Tijnje. In 1905 werd christelijke muziekvereniging 'de Bazuin' opgericht. Reden genoeg om voor dit jubile...

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451. His father was a wool merchant. Originally he seemed destined to follow in his father's footsteps, and thus sailed the oceans to countries as far apart...

In 2005 it was 400 years ago that the first volume of the world-famous novel 'El ingenioso hidalgo don Quichote de La Mancha', written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), was published. Don...

Trimbeka is a composition which owes its existence to the anniversary of music society 'de Vlecke' in Gorredijk. The name Gorredijk originates from 'goor' or 'gor', which means : bog. Along the marshy...

Feroaring fan Lucht' is gebaseerd op de gelijknamige roman van de Friese schrijver Rink van der Velde (1932-2001). De vele werken van Van der Velde zijn meestal gebaseerd op ervaringen die hij opdeed...

The Netherlands have been an important trading nation for a long time partly as a result of their geographical situation. One of the first multinationals in The Netherlands was the 'Verenigde Oostindi...

Tusken bou en greiden Deze compositie van Rob Goorhuis gaat over drie mannen, wier namen nauw verbonden zijn met het Friese dorp Witmarsum. Het zijn heel verschillende figuren, hoewel er in hun karakt...

Bi-Millennial Celebration' has been composed to honour the 2000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Nijmegen. This work consists of three continuous movements. The first movement depicts the...