Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

With Interludes for Trumpets and Trombones. Includes Newly Engraved Full Score.

This is one of the most frequently requested and performed encores in American concert-halls.

Duractiona: ca. 5 1/2 minutes

Windependence - Advanced Apprentice Level (Grade 3) Sinfonia XIX was commission by the Berwick Middle School 7th-8th Grade Band, Brian Fish, Director, and was composed during December 1998 and January...

This striking orchestration of the Northern Irish melody that underlies the song Danny Boy offers intermediate and advanced concert bands an opportunity to explore the tune's soaring beauty through br...

Beloved by music-lovers worldwide, this dazzling folk dance was originally transcribed and arranged by Dvorák for piano duet and subsequently for orchestra. Ambitious concert bands will find this unda...

Shelley Hanson originally composed Islas y Montañas for orchestra. Tocata is the first movement and functions as a fanfare or introduction. It features the entire ensemble clapping rhythmic patterns b...

Windependence - Artist Level (Grade 5) As Brooks composed this piece, he kept in mind the different definitions of the word, Dreadnought: a total absence of fear ' invincible ' a name given to a class...

An American Song is a collage that portrays the motto e pluribus unum by combining several dozen American tunes into a single whole. Fragments of hymns, spirituals, show tunes, jazz standards, country...

Sparkle received its world premiere at the WASBWE Conference in San Luis Obispo, California (1999). Imaginatively scored for wind ensemble, it begins quietly with delicate and rapid woodwind passages...

This gentle piece has a lush Irish feel, and is inspired by a poem from an old Irish blessing that is inclued for optional narrator. When the storms break for him, may the trees shake for him their bl...

In the Machine represents a musical journey inside a machine. Each time the piece is performed, this journey is different according to the performer's choices. Set in 3/4 time, the work begins using o...

Younger bands are showcased to their full potential with this rewarding composition with intriguing minor and major harmonies and interesting suspensions. Each performer is challenged to test the limi...

Windependence - Master Level (Grade 4) This transcription retains Copland's original key and much of his orchestration, and every attempt has been made to preserve the composer's exquisite timbres and...