Intermediate Opening Piece Sheet Music

1. FANFARE. A short introduction, featuring trumpets, horns and trombones.2. CHANT SERIEUX. This slow movement is characterised by a constant shifting of the five-to-the-bar time.3. SCHERZO CONCERTANT...

The number 2000 - to begin with - stands for the magic year, that is drawing near so swiftly. Another fact represented by this number is that this overture makes the two thousandth work published by M...

Johann Strauß Jr. (1825-1899) will always be remembered and loved for his innumerable splendid waltzes. Besides a great number of marches, galops and polkas, he also composed sixteen operettas. 'The G...

This overture introducing Fibich's opera 'Sarka', was composed between 1896 and 1897 and is based on a famous Bohemian legend. Several Czech composers, such as Bedrich Smetana and Leos Janacek, have u...

The French composer Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was a pupil of Ambroise Thomas and was awarded a Grand Prix de Rome. He composed several successful operas such as 'Hérodiade' (1881) and 'Manon' (1884)....

Eric Swiggers (Deurne, 1968) is currently conductor of the symphonic band 'Harmonie St Caecilia' of Lieshout and the fanfare band 'De Notenkrakers' (The Nutcrackers) of Vorstenbosch. He has composed q...

'1. 238, Music for a Celebration' consists of a fine overture followed by a slow Arabian march. This solemn and monumental piece will captivate your audience!

This composition starts in a very majestic way by the complete band. Then we have a choral like part mainly performed by the woodwinds and completed by some snatches of fanfares by the brass instrumen...

Adolphe Adam always saw the bright side of life. He earned his living as a music critic and a composer, though he himself considered composing as mere pastime. He is still famous because of his ballet...

As the title suggests, the piece is heroic and olympic in feel. One might imagine an Olympic Games opening ceremony where the athletes assemble to compete on the world stage. The Heroes Rise Again is...

Egmont op. 84 was composed by in 1810 and is a set of incidental music pieces for the play of the same name by Goethe. It is certainly one of Beethoven's greatest overtures. Beethoven was a great admi...

Unity in Harmony is a composition in three unbroken sections. It's fast, energetic and highly rhythmic opening movement leads into a more relaxed middle section where themes from the opening movement...

Arranger Dirk Keijzer has been working with famous Dutch pianist Cor Bakker since the 1980's. During their long collaboration, Cor would have guests appear on his television programme Cor & Co, and es...

The heroic and powerful Fanfarria, Op.50 was commissioned and premiered by the Alicante Municipal Concert Band in 2012 to commemorate their first centennial. The main epic theme is introduced by the t...

This is a work in opening fanfare style. The piece is characterized by a vision of the hawk flying. During the work we can feel the wind to rip its wings, the frenzy of the hunt, the speed of the nose...

This is a work in opening fanfare style. The piece is characterized by a vision of the hawk flying. During the work we can feel the wind to rip its wings, the frenzy of the hunt, the speed of the nose...

The Overture to The Land of Smiles by Franz Léhar (1870-1948) In the overture to the operetta 'The Land of Smiles', the outstanding orchestrator, Léhar, has artfully forged some of the now world famou...