Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Your developing musicians will achieve valuable fundamental and ensemble performance skills with this uplifting overture. This piece can be performed after completing page 17 in "The Yamaha Advantage"...

Playing The Blues will become "natural" to your young musicians with this groovin' chart! Introduce your Band to accidentals and finding that pocket! This cool piece is a fun early concert addition fo...

Reinforce concepts of phrasing and musicality with this chorale-style work with contemporary harmonies.

Composers Larry Clark and Sandy Feldstein wrote this work as a brilliant introduction to March form and style for developing bands, using only seven notes, with no eighth notes (even in the Snare part...

This delightful March was designed with combined performances of beginning, intermediate, and high school bands in mind. The composition is available in two versions; one for high school band and one...

Primus, by Sandy Feldstein and Larry Clark, is a minor piece that uses only five of the first notes that beginning Band students learn! This foreboding-sounding work is great for first concerts, and c...

This crowd (and student) pleaser combines a Rock bass line, percussion groove, and fun-to-play melody!

This fanfare is perfect for adjudication or festival performance, and is excellent for teaching form. Ideal as a concert opener, or closer.

This festival-style piece was written to reinforce newly-learned eigth note rhythms. It has a majestic sound, and provides lots of contrast that will allow your band to improve and show off their musi...

Antiphony is a serious composition that will highlight your budding percussionists. This bold and harmonically progressive piece has an extensive percussion section that is placed antiphonally around...

This delightful contest-style piece combines three popular folk songs from Australia. It would also be ideal for a crossover learning unit or presentation.

Written to reinforce the key of Eb after the note concert Ab is learned, "Sentinel" is a triumphant-sounding piece that features tuneful melodies, varied textures, section features, and driving Percus...

Perfect for introducing your young Band to March form and style. Playing Marches is an important part of the Wind Band heritage, and is an art that all Band students should become familiar with.

This traditional-style March is perfect for introducing this pivotal and historically important style to your Band. The form of this composition includes the traditional modulation to the subdominant...

Take your Band on an adventure! This exciting overture with a bold fanfare, strong percussion interjections, and angular rhythms is an attention-grabber that would make an excellent concert opener or...

This lyrical piece has a cinematic quality and features a heartfelt melody. Let your young band's musicality shine with "Impressions."

Feature students from the elementary Recorder class playing along with your Band in this fun ragtime-style piece that's perfect for recruitment! Place the Recorder section at the front of the Band so...

Marches are important part of the Wind Band tradition, and are invaluable for improving musicianship. This accessible March was written to introduce March form and style to young musicians. The form o...

This stunning lyrical composition is the perfect vehicle to teach musicianship, elegant phrasing, balance, blend and beauty of tone. Anyone who hears this piece will be captivated by its sweeping melo...

Fanfare Acclamations is a bold and energetic festival-style piece. As the title implies, it begins with a bold maestoso fanfare with punctuating percussion that leads to the active main theme in an up...

This festival-style piece can be used as the culmination of study at when concluding "The Yamaha Advantage Book 1," or any band method book. This popular performance piece from the back of Book 1 in n...

This is a festival-appropriate piece with driving rhythms, bold fanfare gestures, soaring lyrical lines, and climactic moments that will allow your Band to show off and sound their absolute best!

This accessible arrangement combines of two beloved Shaker songs: "Father James's Song," and the famous "Simple Gifts." This very playable and effective arrangement is perfect for the festival and ass...

This true festival-style piece for beginning Band uses limited notes and rhythms, but is very creatively written. Your youngest students will feel like they are playing serious music, as the piece is...

This festival-style piece was written to teach students to recognize most of the major and minor melodic intervals through the two main themes presented. As a bonus, the back page of the parts include...