Intermediate Sheet Music from Eighth Note Publications

'A Dance On Three Legs' is a percussion ensemble piece with constantly shifting meter, hence the title. It also has constantly changing texture and dynamics to add interest. Six players are involved a...

I wrote this piece with the intent of creating a fun piece for students to play that a non-musician could easily teach to a sixth grade class with no musical experience. It is scored for 4 players pla...

Spirituals have found their way into the standard repertoire of vocalists and instrumentalists. The lyrical tunes combined with the powerful message they tell affect us all. In this arrangement all pa...

This is a Scott Joplin rag which has been arranged for 6 clarinets. The various parts alternate playing the famous melodic lines and playing the idiomatic rag accompaniment. There have been some newly...

This is one of the most famous brass choir moments in all the orchestral literature. Made even more famous by its use in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, this distinct, grand and simple work makes an...

This is a short, energetic piece which contains all of the expected elements you may expect with a fanfare. Running scale passages in the upper voices, driving percussion parts, and rhythmic fanfare p...

This is easily the most famous and often recorded fugue. It has become standard with organists all around the world. Now this terrific piece by Bach is available for a brass ensemble consisting of 4 t...

Windscape is in four sections. It opens with ''The Winds from the North.'' The driving bass line combined with the punctuated shots represent the bitter winds that blow. This moves into ''The Winds of...

This short original fanfare was originally scored for trumpet ensemble (the Markham United Trumpet Ensemble) as an opener. Contemporary yet accessible harmonies combined with the power of brass ensemb...

Projection Fanfare is a projection of intensity. It has one minor cadence as it approaches the halfway point, followed by more tension that is only released at the end. Bold and dramatic, this is a gr...

Based on the Newfoundland folk song the Feller From Fortune, this piece has been transformed from the original jig to become an energetic overture featuring a number of solo opportunities, interesting...

Spirituals have found their way into the standard repertoire of vocalists and instrumentalists. The lyrical tunes combined with the powerful message they tell affect us all. In this arrangement all pa...

Lyric Essay is written in a neo-romantic style. It is a slow, reflective work with much opportunity for musical expression. This piece (previously written for concert band) has been performed all thro...

Dodge City is an exuberant piece designed to take you back to the time of the old west. As the title implies, this is a work that will bring to mind stagecoaches and sagebrush, cowboys and cactus, she...

This is another great Spiritual. The arrangement opens with an unaccompanied horn, adds the trombones playing soft chords then builds through the band to create a lush, rich sound. This is an ideal en...

The idea for this march originated from a conversation that took place in the pine forests of Camp Borden, Ontario, during Basic Recruit Course with the Canadian Armed Forces. The composer listened as...

This is an exciting piece based on the Welsh hymn Cwm Rhondda. Fanfares and descants in the trumpets float over the stately tune. The melody flows throughout the band ranging from a smooth lyrical sta...

This colourful title aptly combines the basis for the piece and the person it was written for. Tenth grade trumpet player Alex McCarthy would come to brass quintet rehearsals and, rather than warming...

This beautiful hymn has been arranged to feature the horn section in a brass choir consisting of 3 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones, euphonium and tuba. This arrangement opens with a short introduction...

This trombone solo is playable by a very good high school level player. It has been recorded by all the great soloists and is a required piece on many competition lists. The powerful supporting materi...

Inveni David is an offertory and was originally set for male chorus and four trombones. This powerful work opens in F minor and gradually builds to a brilliant F major Alleluia. This setting for 4 tru...

This work contains three movements (Marianne s'en va-t-au moulin', She's like the Swallow and J'entends le moulin) based on traditional Canadian folk songs. Morley Calvert (1928-1991) originally wrote...

This Sonata features the trumpets and the trombones with the horns and tuba representing the organ. 2 piccolo trumpets are used to float their sound above the foundation set by the remainder of the en...

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