Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

This fantastic overture is a great way to start your concert or festival. The full-sounding beginning leads to a stately A theme, which is followed by a more delicate, sensitive B section. The return...

Hand clapping. Foot stomping. Pencils tapping. This isn't your typical young band piece! Your students will love the fun of these unique scoring effects when they play Matrix. Using syncopated rhythms...

Hand clapping. Foot stomping. Pencils tapping. This isn't your typical young band piece! Your students will love the fun of these unique scoring effects when they play Matrix. Using syncopated rhythms...

Visit charming Spring Island, South Carolina with Spring Island Celebration, a piece that depicts three separate locations on the island. The opening fanfare, with its stark harmonies and powerful bra...

This stirring tribute to America is the perfect finale for your upcoming concert. After a stunning opening fanfare, excerpts of 'Simple Gifts,' 'America, the Beautiful,' 'America,' and the chorus of '...

This haunting arrangement from Dave Black features attractive harmonies, full textures and interesting inner lines. As this sensitive treatment allows students to work on balance and phrasing, every s...

You're looking for a march with substance, but your students want one that's fun to play. Impossible to find you say? Not anymore! With Unity March, Steve Hodges has skillfully taken traditional march...

Almost everyone is familiar with this tune made popular by Ritchie Valens and then by Los Lobos. Now your young band can play this tune expertly arranged by John O'Reilly. This is a great piece for te...

The driving, accented rhythms of this exciting work are sure to energize and motivate your beginning band students. Depicting an ancient attack by the legendary one-eyed monster, this piece is a sonic...

The driving, accented rhythms of this exciting work are sure to energize and motivate your beginning band students. Depicting an ancient attack by the legendary one-eyed monster, this piece is a sonic...

This stately march uses only the notes within one octave and the simplest of eighth note patterns to provide an excellent early concert experience for your beginning band. Correlated with Accent on Ac...

This beautiful, unique chorale serves as the basis to Johannes Brahms's famous orchestral masterpiece Variations on a Theme of Haydn. (Long attributed to Franz Joseph Haydn, recent scholarship indicat...

If you're looking for something different on your next holiday concert, this is it! An original tune starts the piece, with sections of 'Deck the Halls' and 'Jolly Old St. Nicholas' interspersed. It h...

Finally, a grade 1 march that is fun to play while still taking the needs of the young band into consideration. Perfect ranges, rhythms, and scoring make for the ideal march from the pen of John O'Rei...

Ho, ho, ho and feel that swingin' beat! 'Silent Night' and 'The First Noel' really swing in this creative treatment of those favorite Christmas carols. Your students will love the jazz rhythms and har...

This original concert/contest overture utilizes a variety of rhythms to produce an interesting and solid selection for young bands. Both the opening five-note motif and a secondary theme utilizing a d...

This original concert/contest overture utilizes a variety of rhythms to produce an interesting and solid selection for young bands. Both the opening five-note motif and a secondary theme utilizing a d...

This original concert/contest overture utilizes a variety of rhythms to produce an interesting and solid selection for young bands. Both the opening five-note motif and a secondary theme utilizing a d...

This original concert/contest overture utilizes a variety of rhythms to produce an interesting and solid selection for young bands. Both the opening five-note motif and a secondary theme utilizing a d...

Show off your mallet percussionists in this clever section feature. Use as many players as possible on bells, xylophone, vibes and marimba for this joyful tour-de-force. The parts are easy enough that...

Show off your mallet percussionists in this clever section feature. Use as many players as possible on bells, xylophone, vibes and marimba for this joyful tour-de-force. The parts are easy enough that...

Show off your mallet percussionists in this clever section feature. Use as many players as possible on bells, xylophone, vibes and marimba for this joyful tour-de-force. The parts are easy enough that...

Show off your mallet percussionists in this clever section feature. Use as many players as possible on bells, xylophone, vibes and marimba for this joyful tour-de-force. The parts are easy enough that...

You'll find yourself humming this catchy march over and over! Beginning with a fanfare in the trumpets, horns, and saxophones, the low brass soon enters followed by the woodwinds playing a countermelo...

Here's a beautiful ballad-style number for your next concert. The lovely melody and full-sounding scoring will have your audience begging for more. Not technically difficult, this piece allows for wor...