Intermediate Sheet Music from Scomegna Edizioni Musicali

This short composition stems from a fortuitous event: two young instrumentalists from the Wind Band 'M. Mascagni' in Bolzano decided, around the same time, to learn a new musical instrument, dedicatin...

US-born composer Leroy Anderson is best-known for the original miniatures he composed for the Boston Pops Orchestra. The record with his Blue Tango was the first instrumental recording to sell one mil...

Sway is a Spanish song from 1953: Quien Sera, written by Pablo Beltran Ruiz. In 1954 Norman Gimbel wrote the English lyrics and the result was immediately an international success. This arrangement is...

The piece has a traditional structure with the first two sections composed in American-march style. During the trio, in a typically austere spacious English march style, the march gradually fades, bef...

Cesare Andrea Bixio composed Mamma, one of the most well-known Italian classic songs, for lyrics by Bruno Cherubini. The song owes its fame in part to the typical Italian melody, but even more to the...

The guitarist Carlos Santana has enjoyed, in recent years, great and renewed success. Giancarlo Gazzani has included, in this medley, some historic and more recent songs from Santana's repertoire: 'Fl...

The importance of Raffaele Caravaglios for the Italian wind band scene is undeniable and comparable to the fame of his better-known and celebrated contemporary Alessandro Vessella. Born in Castelvetra...

The importance of Raffaele Caravaglios for the Italian wind band scene is undeniable and comparable to the fame of his better-known and celebrated contemporary Alessandro Vessella. Born in Castelvetra...

This young, comic opera, composed in 1835 on one of Wagner's own libretti, based on a play by Shakespeare, was unsuccessful at the Magdeburg theatre in 1836 and even the composer considered it a 'sin...

Ouverture

At the turn of the nineteenth century, after many decades in which the operatic genre dominated Italian music, the country witnessed a 'renaissance' of instrumental music. A generation of composers bo...

Castel del Monte is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy, built during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II. Although it is commonly...