Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

We Wish You A Merry Christmas is the basis for this dance style medley, set as a Cha Cha Cha, a Tango and finally as a Swing Style closer. Inspired by the revival and popularity of ballroom dancing an...

Flexible scoring makes this easy arrangement of the stately (and secular) holiday tune a perfect addition to your holiday concert! Monophonic passages of the complete melody bookend a polyphonic middl...

Joyeux Noel (the French expression of "Merry Christmas") was originally written for brass ensemble, available from the publisher as item number M3057. Its success in that form prompted the composer to...

Johnny Marks' holiday classic has never sounded fresher or more upbeat than in this new John Tatgenhorst arrangement. Latin percussion and jazz rhythms work incredibly well in this soon-to-be standard...

Effective as an opener, Prelude on Adeste Fidelis is a familiar hymn that can fit nicely anywhere on your program. Its band friendly keys and carefully controlled tessitura make it solidly playable. T...

An exciting 'new look' at popular carols. Includes:- Ding Dong Merrily on High: Unto Us a Son is Born: O Little Town of Bethlehem: Masters in this Hall. Recorded by the Central Band of the Royal Air F...

Charles Dickens certainly would have known the three carols in A CHARLES DICKENS CHRISTMAS. They were among the best-known and best-loved carols of the Victorian Era, and were a staple of the repertoi...

Charles Dickens certainly would have known the three carols in A CHARLES DICKENS CHRISTMAS. They were among the best-known and best-loved carols of the Victorian Era, and were a staple of the repertoi...

Leroy Anderson(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1908 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1975) was the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied music and foreign languages at the famous Harvard University before starting...

By means of this quite original fantasy Jef Penders invites both musicians and listeners to discover the typical Christmas atmosphere in eight different countries. We hear successively Christmas music...

The French composer and organist Michel Richard de Lalande (Paris, 1657 - Versailles, 1726), a contemporary of Jean-Baptiste Lully, was music teacher of the daughters of King Louis XIV and was appoint...

Bach arranged quite a lot of both his own music and that of others for all kind of instrumental combinations. Sometimes he also used the same tunes in several of his works. This 'Berceuse' (Lullaby) i...

This musical whimsy is based on the well known folk tune Turkey in the Straw. After the introduction we meet our friend as we all know him from the folk tune.At Moderato we catch the turkey in a melan...

In Germany and Austria there are many beautiful Christmas carols, some of them such as 'Holy Night, Silent Night' or 'O Tannenbaum' are known and sung all over the world. Josef Hastreiter (1938) arran...

Here is a pleasing pastorale based on the traditional Christmas Carol 'On Christmas night all Christians sing' and with a quotation of 'Silent Night, Holy Night'. This piece will bring a moment of rel...

Christmas in the Alps enchants people because of the very special atmosphere with a combination of attentive silence and the blue shining moonlight. At Christmas time, one can often hear in the distan...

The famous Christmas song 'Winter Wonderland' (1934) was composed by Felix Bernard (1897-1944) and the lyricist was Richard B. Smith. Probably the most popular versions of this classic Christmas song...

The Christmas fantasy Hymns and Carols is based on a number of relatively unknown carols. Alongside three English Christmas carols, this composition includes a fragment of a Gregorian chant, a Marian...