Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

The iconic tune Autumn Leaves les Feuilles Mortes by Hungarian-born composer Joseph Kosma hardly requires an introduction to jazz afficionados. The music was originally set to French lyrics by Jacques...

A magnum opus for concert band by composer Lauren Keiser. Victory is large in scope and introduces different harmonic and melodic perspectives to the concert band world. Something different, but music...

Ritmico is a dynamic contest style overture that joins florid melodic writing with a pulsing percussion and driving bass lines. Cast in ABA form, the main vivace theme gives way to a lyrical cantabile...

This publication marks the first edition of the Floyd Werle classic arrangement for modern band, including a full score. Edited by R. Mark Rogers. (Grade 3.5)

I Left My Heart in San Francisco is a popular song which has become a timeless favorite, spanning across generations. With music by George Cory and lyric by Douglass Cross, it became most well-known a...

Commemoration was commissioned by the members of the Northwest North Carolina Bandmasters Association to recognize the distinguished career of Dr. William A. Gora, the longtime Director of Bands at Ap...

Featuring rich sonorities in the low register and a flowing lyric style throughout, this classic composition by Elliot Del Borgo has stood the test of time and currently appears on contest lists in 10...

The Dylan Thomas poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night was the motivation for this musical composition. While not a programmatic depiction of the poem, the work attempts to recreate the essence o...

...this very exciting tone poem depicts both the vast, bleak expanses of the Russian plains and the vigor and energy of a peasant folk dance

The Lagan River flows through Belfast, Northern Ireland. After hearing the beauty of this folk melody, the composer immediately created this work for symphonic wind ensemble. Not only is the melodic c...

Antonín Dvořák composed his overture Carnival, Op. 92, in the summer of 1891 as part of a three-part cycle titled Nature, Life, and Love. In this musical trilogy – written shortly before he took up hi...

Antonín Dvořák composed his overture Carnival, Op. 92, in the summer of 1891 as part of a three-part cycle titled Nature, Life, and Love. In this musical trilogy – written shortly before he took up hi...