Intermediate Sheet Music for Percussion

Composer Perry Holbrook brings emotions to life with this composition for advancing students. The music is very expressive and will challenge your players to dig deep to get past just "notes and rhyth...

Here's an exciting work by one of the premier composers of percussion music. Using a battery of instruments found in practically every band room, Spears fashions a work including driving rhythms and u...

Andiamo is an Italian word meaning 'to hurry or move.?÷ Starting in a moderately fast tempo, this grade 5 percussion quartet keeps moving until it reaches a tempo of extreme speed. Instrumentation inc...

First released in 1991, this popular concert/contest selection for mixed instruments in ABA form opens and closes with a dynamic uptempo theme, with a more subdued adagio section between for essential...

Imagine that your percussion section just realized that they need to practice their music for a contest performance that's closing in fast -- that's the scenario portrayed in this energetic original!...

With an explosion of colors constantly changing throughout, this piece is driven by exciting rhythms and a variety of accents and changing dynamics. Written for grade 3 groups, it explores the many co...

This colorful arrangement for common percussion instruments features all the excitement, mystery, ferocity and sweetness of the great orchestral original by Modest Moussorgsky. Changes in dynamics mus...

Featuring four Spanish-flavored themes from Bizet's popular opera -- Prelude to Act I, Habanera, Entr'Acte to Act IV, Toreador Song -- this winning concert medley for experienced players will be a big...

This exciting grade 3 piece is a great way to begin a concert, or featured at contests! Each performer is given the opportunity to shine!

This arrangement by Scott R. Meister of one of J.S. Bach's best known inventions can be performed by two players on either one or two mallet instruments.  At only one to two minutes in length, it...

The pieces in Bruce Corrigan's Solos for the Developing Timpanist were written to provide solos for solo and ensemble contest, to provide solo material for the young timpanist to have fun practicing a...

Ashtilian, written for 4 timpani, tests the skills of the player with sticking, rhythm changes and changing pitches within the music in the form of glisses. This is an excellent contest piece to show...

Bingo, Bango, Bongo was inspired by many years of friendly golf competitions amongst friends. Specifically the name refers to the three ways to score points in the game represented in the composition...

Oblivious, for timpani and piano, uses many different sounds and colors throughout the entire composition. The performer must be confident with his/her sticking skills and his/her confidence with rhyt...

Your students will love a trip on the percussion highway using the Passing Lane. Abundant colours and catchy rhythmic grooves await your students in this challenging but accessible duet for two snare...

Stick Dance is reminiscent of Canaries, a solo work for 4 timpani composed by Eliott Carter. Like Canaries, this piece is an example of metric modulation, changing tempo using the rhythms present. Unl...

A brilliant opening statement for your percussion ensemble performance. Featuring four players, the composers have created a quartet of concert percussion instruments that will not only reinforce pris...

A brilliant opening statement for your percussion ensemble performance. Featuring four players, the composers have created a quartet of concert percussion instruments that will not only reinforce pris...

A brilliant opening statement for your percussion ensemble performance. Featuring four players, the composers have created a quartet of concert percussion instruments that will not only reinforce pris...

A solo for three tom-toms. Double headed sticks (one end snare drum stick, the other end felt) are required. Medium

Percussion trio. All you'll need is a snare drum, 2 tom-toms, bass drum and suspended cymbal. Easy to set up and fun to play. It swings and each player gets a solo. Medium

A delightful ensemble for three players. Uses changing meters. Instruments required: 4 cowbells, suspended symbal, 4 temple blocks, wood block, tenor drum, snare drum & bongos. Medium