Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Experience the exhilaration of flight with this dynamic concert band piece! Inspired by the Aileron---the hinged flaps that control an aircraft's roll---this music soars with furious woodwind trills,...

A Simple Song at Sunrise, composed for DCI's first-ever show featuring all original music, is now available for your concert band. This ballad from "A Florida Suite," Robert W. Smith's masterwork has...

A Simple Song at Sunrise, composed for DCI's first-ever show featuring all original music, is now available for your concert band. This ballad from "A Florida Suite," Robert W. Smith's masterwork has...

Zerzura transports listeners to a mythical desert where the legendary "oasis of dreams" awaits. Rich melodies and intricate rhythms weave a tale of adventure, discovery, and mystery. Lush harmonies an...

Zerzura transports listeners to a mythical desert where the legendary "oasis of dreams" awaits. Rich melodies and intricate rhythms weave a tale of adventure, discovery, and mystery. Lush harmonies an...

Originally composed as a chanson for voice and piano and than transcribed for orchestra, the Danse Macabre Op. 40 is a short symphonic poem composed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874. Among the various p...

This piece was a hit in the sixties for the British group 'The Animals'. It had already been sung before that by Nina Simone, in 1964, the year it was composed. Since then many artists have made cover...

1./2. Stimme in B, 1./2. Stimme in Es, 3./4. Stimme in C, Bass in C, Bass in B

These four entertaining movements originated in the Thirties. They are an example of popular original compositions of high quality. The work was originally written for small orchestra. Norbert Studnit...

This work was originally written for brass band (see there). At the composer's request, his former pupil Marcel Wengler wrote an arrangement for Symphonie wind band, which is equal to the original in...

Hans Werner Henze, adhering to his intentions äs a composer and teacher, had already made provision for participation by a ,banda' of amateur musicians in the original version of his arrangement of Gi...

This work was written for the Donaueschingen Musiktage of 1926 and given its first performance there together with Paul Hindemith's 'Konzertmusik' and Ernst Toch's 'Spiel' for wind band. Until a few y...

This work was written for the Donaueschingen Musiktage of 1926 and given its first performance there together with Paul Hindemith's 'Konzertmusik' and Ernst Toch's 'Spiel' for wind band. Until a few y...

Paul Hindemith's well-known second substantial original composition for wind band. It is in every way a supreme professional musical achievement and can perhaps be described as one of the best works i...

Keith Wilson, who was from time to time a pupil of Hindemith's at Yale University, arranged the richly colou-red original score of Symphonic Metamorphosis for large wind band using the American combin...

One of the most famous and popular of Stravinsky's orchestral works, where even the original score is particularly rich in exploring the various colours of wind instruments, has now been adapted in a...

The 'Carmina Burana' constitute the most famous and most popular choral work of the 20th century. Johan Krance has chosen 12 particularly suitable pieces from the 25 in the original score and arranged...

Using thematic-motif material and Baroque concerto structures, Stephan Adam has created a contemporary work with new sounds without being avant-garde. The work is demanding, particularly as regards te...

Carl Orff wrote his little world-theatre Der Mond [The Moon], based on old fables, between 1936 and 1938. The score written for actors who sing, a narrator and large orchestra, also contains parts imp...

Carl Orff wrote his little world-theatre Der Mond [The Moon], based on old fables, between 1936 and 1938. The score written for actors who sing, a narrator and large orchestra, also contains parts imp...

Penderecki's opera 'Ubu Rex' contains a small wind band functioning as King Ubu's 'military band'. Therefore the idea to arrange parts of the opera for large concert orchestra readily presented itself...

This piece is a tribute to the famous Zarzuela 'La Tempranica' by Gerónimo Giménez and perfectly conveys the lively spirit of this popular Spanish operetta form with its increasing international popul...

This piece is a tribute to the famous Zarzuela 'La Tempranica' by Gerónimo Giménez and perfectly conveys the lively spirit of this popular Spanish operetta form with its increasing international popul...