Intermediate Sheet Music for Concert Band

With Clouds Descending is a fantasy on the powerful Advent hymn Helmsley which is long associated with another Advent hymn - Wesley's Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending. The hymn tune is divided into...

Highdays and Holidays was commissioned by the South Berks Concert Band to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2016. The band rehearses in the village of Mortimer, which has a long and fascinating histor...

Festival Prelude 'Ad Excel' was commissioned by the AD Concert Band, from Solihull in the UK, to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2016. The title, Ad Excel, is a play on words: it is Latin for 'to...

Festival Prelude 'Ad Excel' was commissioned by the AD Concert Band, from Solihull in the UK, to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2016. The title, Ad Excel, is a play on words: it is Latin for 'to...

Watch Your Step! was commissioned by Stadtmusik Biel from Switzerland and is dedicated to the mayor of Biel/Bienne, Erich Fehr. The title was chosen to represent Biel as the watch-making capital of Sw...

This famous piece by the Swiss composer Franco Cesarini is a festive way to start your concert.

Showdown for Band was written as a compulsory exercise for the Third International Light Music Competition at St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1998. The intention of the composer was to write a piece in a l...

The triumphal march from Aida is probably one of the best known classical works of all times. This superb transcription by Franco Cesarini retains the exciting spirit of the original. As always his na...

This festive overture by the Austrian composer Thomas Doss, whose father was German, is intended to be a symbol of the friendship between Germany and Austria, and the countries that border on these tw...

Intrada is a slow and majestic opening piece, which reveals the rich palette of sound-colours in a concert band. The smooth fluidity of the melodic lines highlights the mellow tones of the woodwind in...

When Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds was originally released, no one would have believed that it would become so popular. The Eve of the War, the stunning open...

Festive brass fanfares, an attractive melody and a quiet chorale-like interlude, played by the woodwind section, are the main ingredients of this compelling concert opener by Gilbert Tinner. The livel...

This work was commissioned by the Musikkapelle Heiden, Germany, on the occasion of the centenary of this versatile and energetic music society. Triumphal Prelude begins with fireworks of sounds and fa...

This joyous fanfare offers many members of the band the opportunityto shine. The opening subject is passed from the clarinets to thesaxophones and then to the oboes before being taken up by thecomplet...

Diese 'Bilder einer Stadt' wollen nicht so sehr visuale Bilder, sondern vielmehr ein Stimmungsbild einer modernen Großstadt heraufbeschwören. Die Musik spiegelt die Stimmungslagen des heutigen Lebens...

The Imperial Royal State Railways was the first rail company in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Imperial Overture tells the tale of a tourist who visits Austria and travels by rail across Austria. During...

A composition of much contrast based on a well-known psalm melody. As its title announces, it starts with a majestic introduction in which parts of the psalm melody can be heard. Next we hear the comp...

A new era dawns-heralded by solemn brass fanfares. What does the future hold? In his work Overture to a New Age , Jan de Haan expresses on the one hand anticipation, on the other also an awareness tha...

Jan van der Roost's new work Jubilus will make an ideal opening piece for any event. It is in a classical ABA form, beginning with a rising brass fanfare which is quickly replaced by a contrasting exp...

This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a majes...

This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a majes...

The Banquet of Light is an easily accessible piece which takes its inspiration from ?light? both in terms of it representing good news and joy together with scenes inspired by light, such as a sunset...

François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834) is considered as the one of themost important representatives of the French opéra-comique. His styleis characterised by natural, unembellished melody lines, strai...

Neben dem Zigeunerbaron und Eine Nacht in Venedig ist Die Fledermaus eine der bekanntesten Operetten von Johann Strauss (Sohn). Dieses Werk, das 1874 uraufgeführt wurde, ist ein Paradebeispiel für die...

Composer Satoshi Yagisawa wrote this fanfare for the anniversary of a concert band whose conductor he knew well. As a result, Fanfare to the Unknown World is a piece that lets the band shine in its fu...