Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

This 'adagio' movement from the 'Enigma Variations' provides an excellent opportunity for developing bands to work on tone, blending, intonation, and dynamics. Jay Bocook's arrangement of this classic...

This well-crafted and accessible arrangement of Camille Saint-SaÙns' classic Carnival of the Animals is sure to please more than just conductors of youth wind bands. James Curnow's years of arranging...

Composed by Mstislav ('Slava') Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra, this exciting, yet brief overture received it's premiere performance in 1977. Constructed using two contrasting themes...

Scheherazade is Rimsky-Korsakov's amazing musical interpretation of the tales of the Arabian Nights as told to the sultan by his wife who is destined to be executed. Her stories over 1,001 nights so e...

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed the ballet The Nutcracker in 1891-1892. Based on Alexandre Dumas' adaptation of E, T, A, Hoffmann's story, 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,' Before the premiere, T...

The haunting, but flowing melody from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake has been exclaimed by many as a perfect image of the title dancer who is turned into a swan during the ballet. There are few technical cha...

Morton Gould will be remembered in history as the consummate composer, conductor, educator, and administrator. His genius reached all facets of our art with compositions ranging from popular to sympho...

Written in 1873, Evening Song is one of the best-known choral works of Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901), German composer, organist and teacher. Displaying an exceptional lyric quality and utilizing a ful...

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Pachelbel's 'Canon in D' for band, arranged by Steve Cortland.

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

Danzon no. 2 by the Mexican composer Arturo Marquez was included on the program of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venuzuela conducted by Gustavo Dudamel on their 2007 tour of Europe and the Unit...

Who does not know the famous Te Deum Prelude by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)? This French composer studied both painting and composition in Italy. Returning to France, he took up the post of m...

Waltz No. 2 comes from the Suite for Variety Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich, commonly known as Jazz Suite No. 2, after the latter had been lost for many years. Andre Waignein arranged the well-known...

Giuseppe Verdi is one of the most famous composers of Italian opera. Here, Cesarini has masterfully arranged Nabucco.

One of the most recognizable and often-quoted symphonic passages in modern times is from this grand work for chorus and orchestra by Carl Orff. Combining elements from Movements I and II, Jay Bocook v...