Intermediate Sheet Music from Molenaar Edition

Peter Kleine Schaars (Deventer, 1962) is a trombone player and staff arranger with the Marine Band of the Royal Dutch Navy . His five part suite 'Nomenclatura' was commissioned by the Band of the Dutc...

This is the fifth and final movement of the colourful suite 'Nomenclatura' by Peter Kleine Schaars (1962). After subsequently a salsa, a ballad, a rumba and a funk melody, here is a capricious piece c...

This Rhapsody is composed by Peter kleine Schaars for the 4th international contest of light music in 2002 at St. Gallen.

Three sound portraits of Turkey: the 'Topkapi Palace' , the imperial residence built after the Ottoman conquest in Istanbul, the 'Blue Mosque' or Sultan Ahmet mosque built between 1609 and 1616 also a...

The Spanish bandleader Xavier Cugat (Gerona, 1900 - Barcelona, 1990) spent his youth in Cuba before starting a successful career as bandleader in the USA. He created his first dance band in 1928 and f...

In this three part suite, the Belgian composer Marcel Peeters creates a musical expression of the world of the puppets, which of course refers to that of the humans. The successive parts are I. Mornin...

The Belgian composer Marcel Peeters is really an all round musician. In this sunny medley Mexican Dances he arranged in a most skilful and original way a series of traditional Mexican themes you will,...

Decennium' was composed in 2003 as a commission by the municipality of Berheze for its tenth anniversary. The composition describes the history of this town in the Province of Brabant, consisting of 6...

'1. 238, Music for a Celebration' consists of a fine overture followed by a slow Arabian march. This solemn and monumental piece will captivate your audience!

This composition by Bob Gay and Marcel Peeters is a musical nostalgic recollection of 'those good old times...when everything was better than nowadays (?)'. It evokes the atmosphere and the conviviali...

This pleasant and varied suite consists of three parts: 1. 'Le Corbeau et le Renard' (The Raven and the Fox) is a humoristic evocation of the renowned fable by La Fontaine. 2. Little Romance' suggests...

Next to 'Filos Musica' and 'Olé junqueira' by this Portuguese composer, we also publish This fine medley of Portuguese melodies. These nice and very well orchestrated melodies make us dream of sunny h...

This is the very first composition which Alex Poelman wrote for symphonic band. The work describes the contrast between the beauty of the volcanoes and their destructive power.

Here we have a short but powerful composition introduced by a brilliant brass fanfare which is repeated by the rest of the band in different forms and by different instrumental groups, leading finally...

The Salsa is a mixture of jazz, rock and Afro-Cuban music that was born in the seventies in New York. This musical genre, based on Caribbean rhythmical patterns, gives way to a lot of improvisation. T...

The composition Floris was first of all written for the movie picture 'Floris', based on the old television series of the same name, with, among others, Rutger Hauer in the leading role. This series t...

A Holiday in the US inspired the composer to write this both solemn and virtuoso concert march with a trio that reminds us of the style of Sir Edward Elgar.

Here is a fine piece of rhythmical and appealing dance music by means of which Marcel Peeters evokes the well-known American gamble paradise with plenty of casinos, one-armed bandits (slot machines),...

Canzoni d'Italia is a medley of Neapolitan evergreens in a superbly sounding and very tasteful arrangement by Marcel Peeters. The medley of ancient and well-known Mediterranean songs starts in a quiet...