Intermediate Sheet Music from Boosey & Hawkes

Dog Days reflect the composer's discomfort with the high humidity and high tempertures often encountered in July and August; air so heavy and heat so oppressive that one can barely move. The compositi...

The text comes from the Pima people, who were desert dwellers. The wind either playfully tosses the sands and grasses in small sweeps and swirls, or upon gaining more energy, whirls into a circle and...

Written in the Dorian mode, and using only the white notes of the piano keyboard, each of this poem's two verses is sung by the choir in unison and then repested in two-part harmony. The piano part is...

By combining texts from both the Native American and European settler traditions, Nick Page is celebrating our common love for the sacred Earth and or all life.

The focus of this poetic text is on the mother, and the special feelings of mothers worldwide. It is a lullaby, simple, with a gentle sense of awe.

Composer’s note In Jubilate Deo I have gone back to the music to which I was introduced from a very early age as a chorister at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway. Singing regularly in concerts an...

Commissioned by The United States Marine Band and premiered in 1987, Clare Grundman's Concord has remained a staple in the wind band repertoire. The middle section of this work is a beautiful chorale...

The Ceremony of Carols is one of Britten's best-known and most-performed works. It is a brilliantly conceived and dramatic concert work which sees the voices process to their places singing unaccompan...

Weddings are joyful occasions - for the happy couple as well as for their community. When a couple stands before their friends and families, and sometimes in sacred settings before God, they make vows...

This transcription for concert band was completed in 1988 at the request of Lowell E. Graham, the conductor of the Air Combat Command Heritage of America Band, stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Vir...

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) has been called the Dean of American Composers. He was one of the first composers to use American folk idioms in his music. Hoe Down is taken from the ballad Rodeo, composed...

The Promise of Living is the stirring choral finale from Act I of The Tender Land, Copland's opera about life on a Great Plains farm. It is offered here in a brass quintet arrangement intended for edu...