Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Opening with the rich sounds of the woodwind choir, here is a magnificent setting of John Bacchus Dykes' familiar hymn tune, Holy, Holy, Holy. Rich brass writing sets up the fanfare and key change to...

Based on the gospel hymn Shall We Gather at the River? by American hymn writer Robert Lowry, this arrangement includes lush harmonic writing with optional drum set. A great study in musicianship, the...

Großes Blasorchester und Chor SATB ad lib. Die Festliche Singmesse ist nun auch in einer Ausgabe für großes Blasorchester und gemischtem Chor erhältlich, passend zur Chorausgabe SATB! Dieses Arrangeme...

Johannes Brahms was not a religious man in the usual sense of the term, so it should be of no surprise that when he wrote the German Requiem; it did not follow the prescribed five movement form of the...

Herzliebster Jesu/Ich bin's, Ich sollte büssen/Was mein Gott will/Mir hat die Welt/Wer hat Dich so geschlagen/Wie wunderbarlich

Some songs have a distinct, inherent value even long after they are written. There is a beauty in the simplicity of Leonard Cohen's classic song, 'Hallelujah' which was captured by many artists and ar...

Blasorchester in Mitteleuropa musizieren seit langem in Kirchen. Vielfach wurden sie sogar im 19. Jahrhundert als 'Orgelersatz', vor allem im ländlichen Raum, gegründet. Folglich ist dem besonderen Be...

Mit Sologesang (ad lib.). Der katholische Liedermacher und Musikproduzent Albert Frey (*1964) beeinflusst und prägt seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre die deutsche christliche Musikszene. Er hat mehr als 12...

Der 'Elias' ist ein Oratorium von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy über die Geschichte des biblischen Propheten Elias. Die erste konkrete Ankündigung Mendelssohns, dass er eine Vertonung des Elias-Stoffes...

'Es ist ein großes Privileg, seit frühester Kindheit in intensivem Kontakt mit Musik zu stehen. Noch nicht einmal auf dieser Welt, hatte ich schon das große Glück, den Klängen einer klavier- und cello...

Der Mensch lebt nicht nur mit seiner Familie zusammen, sondern oft auch in Gemeinschaft mit Freunden und Gleichgesinnten. Es sind gerade diese Verbindungen, die dem Leben Halt geben und Sinn stiften....

Psalm for Band is a piece constructed from a single germinating harmonic idea. There are three distinct sections - a sustained chordal mood, a forward moving chorale, followed by a Paean culmination o...

Psalm for Band is a piece constructed from a single germinating harmonic idea. There are three distinct sections - a sustained chordal mood, a forward moving chorale, followed by a Paean culmination o...

Psalm for Band is a piece constructed from a single germinating harmonic idea. There are three distinct sections - a sustained chordal mood, a forward moving chorale, followed by a Paean culmination o...

The Messa di Gloria (Mass of Glory) is among the most beautiful works that the not yet thirty-year-old Rossini composed in the fruitful period in which he worked in Naples (the years of 'La donna del...

It is rare that a composition is conceived first for winds then later transcribed for orchestra, but such is the case with Suite Francaise. Premiered by the famed Goldman Band in 1945, this magnificen...

Composed nearly 50 years ago (1957), this masterpiece from the late Alfred Reed displays his characteristic style and total command of wind band orchestration. Composed using a single theme and two fa...

Essential Elements Artist Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 34).

MusicWorks - Grade 4 Score and Parts. One of the band repertoire treasures of all time, this uniquely American work by Robert Russell Bennett continues to stand the test of time as it moves triumphant...

Composed for Tapp Middle School in Powder Springs, GA and premiered at the 2005 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Ascend is a driving and energetic work designed to sound great with younger bands. The combin...

The haunting melody of this traditional Irish folk song is treated here in a lush and moving setting by Michael Sweeney. Even at this easy level, the instrumentation is varied and a wealth of musical...

Never before have the magical melodies of Holst's masterpiece been made available at this easy level. Using excerpts from the first and third movements, but still maintaining the integrity and sound o...