Giancarlo Gazzani: Intermediate Sheet Music

The guitarist Carlos Santana has enjoyed, in recent years, great and renewed success. Giancarlo Gazzani has included, in this medley, some historic and more recent songs from Santana's repertoire: 'Fl...

Originally composed as a chanson for voice and piano and than transcribed for orchestra, the Danse Macabre Op. 40 is a short symphonic poem composed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874. Among the various p...

The titleGiancarlo Gazzani has enjoyed a series of successes with Scomegna, including 'Santana, a portrait', 'Louis Armstrong legend' and, recently, 'Modugno forever'. As an expert in instrumentation...

Minnie the Moocher is a song by Cab Calloway, made famous by the movie The Blues Brothers. During his performances, Calloway asked his audience to repeat each phrase in a question-and-answer game. Som...

This young, comic opera, composed in 1835 on one of Wagner's own libretti, based on a play by Shakespeare, was unsuccessful at the Magdeburg theatre in 1836 and even the composer considered it a 'sin...

Originally composed as a chanson for voice and piano and than transcribed for orchestra, the Danse Macabre Op. 40 is a short symphonic poem composed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874. Among the various p...

'Chicago', created as a musical, was recently transferred to film and enjoyed great success. The original music by John Kander (also author of the music for 'Cabaret') was also employed in the film. T...

This medley, arranged by Gazzani to mark the 70th anniversary of Gershwin's death, includes five of the composer's best-loved songs: A Foggy Day, Oh, Lady be good, The man I love, But not for me and S...

After the enormous success obtained with ''Santana a Portrait'', ''Oro Latino'', ''Corazon Espinado'', and ''Perez Prado'', Giancarlo Gazzani presents another Latin medley: ''Cuban Sound''. This colle...

The title'Basin Street Blues', 'Tiger Rag', 'St. Louis Blues' and 'That's a Plenty' relate the musical legend of the great Louis Armstrong. Giancarlo Gazzani has carried out this arrangement, maintain...

The piece''Die Walküre'' (the Valkyries) is the second of the four works that make up the 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' (The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered in Munich in 1870. The 'Ride of the Valkyri...

For 5 Saxs and band (2 Alto, 2 Tenor, 1 Baritone). Fast swing, inspired by the orchestras that endured after the "decline" of swing, like that of Count Basie. The whole piece is dedicated to the entir...

The titleGiancarlo Gazzani has a considerable body of experience as an arranger for bands, symphonic orchestras and big bands. For some years he has worked for our Publishing Company, enjoying a serie...

The magnificent triumphal march which Beethoven composed as incidental music for this tragedy, and which bears the number of WoO 2a, was written for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinet, two bassoons,...

The song, with lyrics by the journalist Peppino Turco and music by Luigi Denza, was written back in 1880. It was inspired by the inauguration, that same year, of the first funicular railway on Vesuviu...

Born in Mexico in 1947 and a naturalised US citizen, Carlos Santana is one of the most successful rock musicians of all time. Among his greatest hits are Samba pa-ti and Europa. After a period during...

This piece, technically simple and inspired by the style of Tito Puente, is intended for bands that are fans of Latin-American music. The instrumentation by Giancarlo Gazzani perfectly renders the sou...

The title'Tristeza', 'Besame Mucho' and 'Samba de Orfeu' are three tracks in the traditional Latin-American repertory that comprise this medley. The arrangement by Giancarlo Gazzani presents this clas...