Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Premiered and recorded by the Duquesne University Wind Symphony with Robert Cameron.

It is rare that a composition is conceived first for winds then later transcribed for orchestra, but such is the case with Suite Francaise. Premiered by the famed Goldman Band in 1945, this magnificen...

This exciting work follows a ride on the TGV, France's bullet train. It opens with the sounds of a French railway station and parallels a journey with various accelerations and speed shifts. (Grade 4)...

Originally commissioned for the celebration of Tennessee's Homecoming '86, Jug Blues & Fat Pickin' is inspired by recordings of the Memphis Jug Band, the most recorded and perhaps most popular of the...

Originally commissioned for the celebration of Tennessee's Homecoming '86, Jug Blues & Fat Pickin' is inspired by recordings of the Memphis Jug Band, the most recorded and perhaps most popular of the...

Guides to Band Masterworks with downloadable student workbooks provides band directors with a ready-made curriculum developed to incorporate comprehensive-musicianship training through quality band li...

Plenty of Horn was commissioned by the Seattle Symphony as part of its 'Echoes' project, featuring classical works transformed and reinterpreted by contemporary composers. The 4-minute work is based o...

This is Barnes Symphony #7 and is a brilliant work depicting events of the American Civil War.

A fantasy on the 3-voice organum “Alleluia: Nativitas” composed by the 12th century master, Perotin. The work uses great blocks of Perotin's polyphony, juxtaposed and superimposed at multi...

Five Elizabethan Dances is drawn from the music that sets the scene and provides the accompaniment for the Ballroom Scene from Don Freund's Romeo and Juliet:A Shakespearean Music Drama for singing act...

The title suggests a character that is rough and outside the mainstream, unsheltered and ready to face the forces of nature head-on. This character is captured in music featuring insistent melodic fig...

A fantasy on the 3-voice organum “Alleluia: Nativitas” composed by the 12th century master, Perotin. The work uses great blocks of Perotin's polyphony, juxtaposed and superimposed at multi...

Reed - Grades 3-5

Dello Joio - Grades 3-5

Jager - Grades 3-5

Since its publication in 1972, this work has become an important part of the literature for concert band, and appears on many state lists.

Mitchell - Grades 3-5

The lively dance style of the Paso Doble (double-step) is inherent in Spanish culture and claims its roots from the excitement and drama of the bullfight arena. Here in one of the most famous Paso Dob...