Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Homage to Leonin evokes his sinuous melodic style and use of Gregorian chant. It is a mood piece in which a chant on the Dorian mode is gradually transformed into a perfectly symmetrical eight-tone sc...

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Homage to Perotin springs from his Viderunt - with its driving rhythmic intesnity, repetition, and pedal points. The opening section features dissonances in alternation with brass fanfare-like passage...

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...

Seis Manuel is the 3rd movement of the 4-movement suite Islas y Montañas and represents the traditional song and dance form of the Jibaro people, peasant farmers from the mountains of Puerto Rica. Sol...

Olympiada was written in 1996 (rescored in 2002) to capture the human conditions of intense glory and pain that only the Olympic Games can inspire, while musically tying themes with a historic Greek f...

Clare Grundman's band transcription features various soloists and small groups within the band.

Commissioned by the Minnesota Chapter of the College Band Directors National Association, this piece is a captivating series of lively dances, introduced and interrupted by short fanfares to create bu...

First Landing Celebration is an energetic and joyous concert piece for young band, written to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the historic arrival of English colonists to American soil. Composed...

Published in 1961 commemorating the start of the Civil War 100 years before, Clare Grundman's classic work has become a staple in the repertoire. Robert Longfield's adaptation for younger bands mainta...

Regiment of Heroes was written for and dedicated to 'The Presidents Own' United States Marine Band. This powerful composition opens with a lively syncopated figure followed by a contrasting melodic tr...

Ever been chased by a grizzly bear? Hopefully Edward Fairlie's exciting and descriptive work will be as close as you get! You're taken on a heart-thumping chase through the forest, with twigs snapping...

Das 1944 entstandene Musical On the Town war Leonard Bernsteins erster Ausflug auf die Bühnen des Broadway. Inspiriert von seinem erfolgreichen Ballett Fancy Free, erzählt Bernsteins Musical von den A...

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