Intermediate Sheet Music for Concert Band

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...

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...

Commissioned by the Texas Music Educators Association for their 2005 All-State Band, Lux Aurumque is an extraordinarily lush and poignant adaptation of one of Eric Whitacre's most popular choral works...

The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. While the first movement of his famous fifth symphony is more often performed, the majestic and triumphant finale beauti...

'Anniversary Overture' was commissioned in 1968 as a twenty-first birthday piece for Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, and is a four-minute firework display for orchestra. Within the framework of a two-...

Of the many popular compositions by Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849), none are better suited to concert band than his Military Polonaise (Op. 40 No. 1). This skillful transcription brings to life the pow...

Nikolai Andreevič Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan in 1899-1900. Ironically, although he composed another 14 operas and countless orchestral works, an extremely b...

Three Chorale Preludes epitomizes the perfect teaching piece and performance work. Although based on familiar chorale melodies, the work is an original. Each prelude reflects contrasting tempi and tex...

Welsh composer Karl Jenkins dedicated his landmark mass The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace to the victims of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo. More recently it is been associated with remembrances of 9/11. Th...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

The first movement of Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, is one of the most impressive works of the young Mozart. Composed when he was only seventeen years old, this "Little G-Minor Symphony" captiva...

The first movement of Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, is one of the most impressive works of the young Mozart. Composed when he was only seventeen years old, this "Little G-Minor Symphony" captiva...

The first movement of Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, is one of the most impressive works of the young Mozart. Composed when he was only seventeen years old, this "Little G-Minor Symphony" captiva...

The first movement of Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, is one of the most impressive works of the young Mozart. Composed when he was only seventeen years old, this "Little G-Minor Symphony" captiva...

Bring the timeless elegance of Viennese classicism to the concert band stage! With the second movement (Andante con moto) from Franz Schubert's renowned Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Baton Music pre...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The Csardas, sung by Rosalinde demands great virtuosity and gypsy fee...

The Gypsy Chorus (Coro di Zingari) 'Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie' is the opening of the second act of he opera Il Trovatore. It is dawn at a gypsy encampment in Biscay, the gypsies prepare for the...

Moscow, Cheryomushki is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich. It is sometimes referred to as simply "Cheryomushki" which is a district in Moscow full of cheap subsidized housing built in 1...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

Kurt Weill (1900-1950) was best-known work is "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("Threepenny Opera") (1928), a reworking of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera", written in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. Weill's...

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (1750 - 1792) was a German-Czech composer and a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. Rosetti wrote over 400 compositions, primarily instrumental music including many symphonies...