Intermediate Sheet Music from Kendor Music

Grade 5 Features Snare Drum Solo (Unaccompanied). This grade 5 piece explores the musical, technical and sound potential of the snare drum. Movements include; Andante, Allegro, and Presto, and will sh...

Grade 3-5 Features Snare Drum Solo (Unaccompanied). This set of 14 unaccompanied solos arranged progressively from grade 3 to grade 5 presents music in both rudimental and concert orchestral styles.

The massive wind turbines that spread throughout the plains and oceans are the inspiration for this work. A great contest piece in G minor, this grade 3 composition uses chromatic open 5th passages an...

Designed for grade 3 ensembles, this is a wonderful work for any string orchestra looking for an upbeat and festive piece. Complete with memorable themes and flowing melodic lines that will give your...

This dramatic grade 3 work blends blues and bluegrass elements, and provides special exposure for cellos and basses while keeping the rest of the orchestra actively involved in a very exciting perform...

The eight solos contained in this grade 3-5 collection for 5-piece drum set are suitable for any performing venue or pedagogy. Using sticks, brushes, timpani, mallets, etc., the solos explore rhythmic...

This beautiful folkish chart in an even-eighth note ECM style features diatonic melodies over lush chord voicings. The tenor and piano solo can be played as written or ad lib. A guitar chord chart by...

Following up on the popularity of the composer's baseball-inspired big band chart, Double Play, this shuffle opens with an ad lib solo for piano and grooves from start to finish. A stop-time section g...

Using the universal language of music, this inspired original creates moods and visual scenes that will capture everyone's imagination. As conditions in our atmosphere, such as cloud formations, come...

This second volume of mallet solos by Joel Smales is a follow-up to the popular first volume (grade 2). These nine grade 2-4 solos are accessible to students and are perfect for contest, recitals, and...

Originally written and performed by members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band of New Orleans in 1917, this rousing tune puts capable clarinetists through the paces in fun-loving Dixieland style. Pre...

Brass quintets will really enjoy this version of W.C. Handy's iconic song of 1914. Popularized through the years by countless jazz artists -- Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Bil...

We welcome tubist/composer Mike Forbes to the Kendor family of writers with these grade 4 arrangements of one of the world's most beloved folksongs. They offer the perfect opportunity to work on tone,...

If you're looking for a new twist on an old hymn, look no further! This clever arrangement provides unlikely, yet engaging stylistic treatments to the famous source material. The variations on this 16...

Recorded by Buddy Rich on the album Stick It, this driving original with attitude assigns the primary solos to tenor and alto sax, with the drummer contributing several well-placed fills throughout. L...

In this creative setting of the classic Shaker theme, every member of the group carries the melodic lead at one time or another and contributes important developmental material throughout. The jaunty...

Opening with an unaccompanied bari sax solo before the others join in gradually, this winning arrangement of the 1897 ragtime hit also offers written-or-ad-lib solos for tenor and alto. Playing with r...

Adapted for standard jazz ensemble from the version with strings recorded by Pete Christlieb on the CD 'A Portrait Of Sammy,' this beautiful ballad featuring tenor saxophone is an inspires everyone to...

Recorded in 1998 by the Monday Night Big Band on their Thanks To Thad album, this is Part 3 of Thad's larger Return Journey Suite. It features lots of powerful writing for the full ensemble and abunda...

Recorded in 1968 by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra on their Monday Night album, this swingin' blues at a moderate tempo opens with an ad lib piano solo, then shifts immediately to a solo chor...

Subtitled A Shuffle For Art's Sake (referring to Art Dedrick, Kendor's founder) and commissioned by Kendor in celebration of its 25th anniversary, this dynamic original assigns solos to alto, tenor an...

Recorded in 1998 by the Monday Night Big Band on their Thanks To Thad album, this is Part 2 of Thad's larger Return Journey Suite. Set in 5/4 time, it's an intense workout that calls for well-executed...

Commissioned by the Prescott (AZ) High School Jazz Ensemble directed by Dan Bradstreet, this Fred Sturm original is everything we've come to expect from this talented jazz composer. Set in a half-time...

Regarded as the first published ragtime composition, this upbeat two-step from 1897 demands rhythmic precision from everyone and offers unique 'as written or improvised' solo opportunities in the 1st...

George Gershwin completed Rhapsody In Blue in 1924, and it was one of the first orchestral works to fuse together blues, jazz and classical styles to create a distinctly American orchestral sound, and...