Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Subtitled 'A Festival Fanfare Selection' this work is at times dramatic and graceful. Featuring 7/8 bars, quarter-note triplets, accents off the beat and driving eighth notes which drive and add power...

This is one of Claude's most difficult later works. An excellent choice for outstanding high school, university and professional bands looking for a challenge. Great writing throughout; featuring a ba...

One of the most well-designed melodic works of Claude T. Smith. This piece is skillfully written with careful selection of range, keys, articulations and patterns, making it sound much more difficult...

Feelings of a South American festival come to life through fiery brass and percussion writing and a hint of Latin jazz. Sure to be a favorite of performers and audiences. Chido!

Contrasting tempos and timbres propel the excitement in this contrasting and rhythmic work. Particularly demanding for percussionists. Well-suited for contest and festival performances.

This spirited overture begins with a trumpet solo with additional solo opportunities for flute, trombone, clarinet and horn. The saxophone, flute/oboe and percussion sections are also featured. The ch...

A bold exciting march expertly blended with the English tune 'Terra Beata' more commonly known as the hymn 'This Is My Father's World.' An exciting arrangement for advancing ensembles.

The lovely choral beginning, featuring the familiar carol 'Good Christian Men, Rejoice,' sets the groundwork for this unique work. The piece features soli opportunity for bassoon and trombone, followe...

This work was commissioned by and for the United States Marine Band and is based on 'The Old One Hundredth' which is often used as the Doxology in religious services. This is a popular and widely perf...

The horns set the mood right from the start in this exciting work for advanced middle school ensembles. With syncopated accompaniment, well thought out transitions and occasional 7/8 bars this stunnin...

A wonderful first march by the young Claude T. Smith. This work is especially challenging for the trumpet section. Full of power, this march will stir the spirits of performers and audiences alike.

Composed for woodwind artist Gary Foster, the 'Suite for Solo Flute, Clarinet and Alto Sax' is a perfect concert showpiece for the multiple woodwind instrumentalist. The opening allegro features flute...

Previously unpublished, 'Honor Guard March' was composed by Claude T. Smith in 1959 while he was teaching in Cozad, NE. Premiered in 1961, this march has remained unknown until now! Written in traditi...

Bring a touch of history into your next performance. This epic musical tribute includes narration and SATB choir. Powerful!

In the Stillness was commissioned by Hudson Bend Middle School (Lake Travis, Texas). I had the opportunity to speak with the students at Hudson Bend multiple times during the writing process, particul...

The Dawnland begins with a rustling in the wind. Three characters emerge musically to set the stage: the percussion which create the calm and sparkling atmosphere, the flute and alto saxophone - the v...

An integrated work of music, astrophysics, and cosmology. "The James Webb Space Telescope will be the premier observatory (telescope) of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It...

Glow was written rapidly in the summer of 2018 in only two weeks. For years I had imagined this work as bursting clusters. And when I sat down to write it, the music poured out of me. The work feature...

Out of the Shadows, Love Shines was commissioned in memory of Blake Brockington by the East Mecklenburg High School Band Department. It is a work about a personal journey and those who witness it. The...

Enigma Machine is based on the idea of motivic variation. I imagined the main motive (which is first presented in the marimba at mm. 18) weaving its way throughout the piece. We see it most often in t...

The Moon Glistens is a new work for wind ensemble derived from Joni's choral work Autumn Reflections. The work is structured as a tone poem which incorporates six Japanese Haiku throughout, while offe...

In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary surrounding a black hole inside which events cannot affect an outside observer. Light emitted from inside the horizon can never reach the observer...

Circean Waters was inspired by the story of Odysseus from Homer's "Odyssey." The music begins with voyagers heading out to open sea who know that danger of the Siren enchantresses lay ahead. In the "O...

The symphonic poem 'Loch Ness' consists of five through-composed impressions of this mysterious Scottish Lake. I) The Lake At Dawn - calm, static, sonorous blocks depict the troubled opaque water surf...