Concert Pieces for Concert Band

A clever, humorous composition to aid in the teaching of changing meters, TIME BANDITS uses nothing more complex than eighth notes in its exploration of time. Suitable percussion, particularly temple...

You'll find this a real winner for first-year students. Only the second clarinets and second trumpets play more than the first five notes and they only extend one note to written B natural.

You'll find this a real winner for first-year students. Only the second clarinets and second trumpets play more than the first five notes and they only extend one note to written B natural.

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...

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...

Rob Grice hat dieses neue Konzert- oder Festivalwerk für Jugendblasorchester geschaffen, um den beständigen menschlichen Geist zu feiern. The soaring Spirit' ist musikalische Energie pur, Anmut und El...

Rob Grice hat ein Konzertwerk geschaffen, nach dem ihre jungen Musiker jeden Tag fragen werden! Zombies haben in Filmen, Büchern, Fernsehserien und Videospielen eine bemerkenswerte Popularität erreich...

Der aufregende Puls des Percussionregisters führt die triumphalen Klänge der Holz- und Blechbläser ein - ein kühner Hinweis darauf, dass das Beste erst noch kommt. Wie aufs Stichwort wird unsere musik...

Appalachian Folk Dance ist ein neues Konzert- und Festivalwerk des bekannten Komponisten Robert W. Smith für Jugendorchester - ein lebhaftes Werk, das von den Volksliedern und Tänzen der frühen amerik...

Ein absoluter Hit für Anfängerorchester! 'Creature Feature' wird der Höhepunkt in jedem Konzertprogramm sein. Jedes Register des Orchesters kann einprägsame melodische Themen spieleln. Diese lustige,...

Give your youngest musicians a challenge with this dramatic concert work that is sure to grab their attention. The students will imagine great futuristic battles in the year of 3000, all the while the...

Filled with musicality while only using notes from the Bb concert scale, 'Promise of Tomorrow' is an impressive concert or festival piece! The contrasts between gentle lyrical passages and bold full e...