Jacob de Haan Sheet Music for Concert Band

Originally Cornfield Rock was written by Jacob de Haan as a version for male choir. It was based on a text by William Shakespeare on a melody of Thomas Morley (It was a lover and his lass). The origin...

Missa Brevis is a major work for choir and brass band for performance in church or in the concert hall. For this mass, there are many performance possibilities depending on the musicians available. In...

Normalerweise wird Filmmusik anhand eines Drehbuchs geschrieben. Dass es auch andersherum funktioniert, beweist Jacob de Haan mit seinem Werk La Storia. Ohne eine bestimmte Geschichte zu erzählen, lie...

In Concerto d'Amore, a maestoso opening is followed by a quick and energetic movement that leads to a magnificent adagio. A motif from this adagio can be heard in a swinging movement, after which the...

Commissioned by the St. Peters Wind Symphony from Brisbane, Australia, the title refers to the late 19th century villa where St. Peters Lutheran College was founded. The villa has remained the school...

Odilia is an up-tempo and joyful ode to Baume-les-Dames, a village in the department of Doubs in Franche-Comté, Eastern France. The title is derived from the legend of Odilia of Alsace (venerated as S...

This imaginative new work portrays the rich history of the textile industry through music. The decline of the industry is expressed in the opening slow movement with an authentic 12 bar blues. The sec...

The Chinese conceptions yin and yang represent the two contradicting principles of an object or phenomenon, such as day and night, light and dark, man and woman. In Yin Yang Serenade this can be found...

Composer Jacob de Haan has based The Heart of Lithuania on five folk melodies from Lithuania, a country that despite its small size has a rich cultural heritage. The choice and diversity of emotions,...

The Gospel Mass -a mass for mixed choir, combo and concert band-is based on the gospel music that has spread throughout the world since its creation in America. The movements of the mass ordinary as w...

Missa Brevis, written for choir and wind band, was commissioned by the Conseil Départemental pour la Musique et la Culture de Haute-Alsace (Dir. : Philippe Pfisterer) in Guebwiller (France), in celebr...

The Adagio is based on a manuscript that was discovered in the Dresden State Library after the Second World War by Remo Giazotto, a Milanese musicologist who was working on Albinoni's biography at the...

Una Furtiva Lagrima is a brilliant arrangement by Jacob de Haan, of the aria from Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) for concert band. The subject of this song is the powe...

Jacob de Haan thus draws inspiration from very different things. Travels abroad, walks, everyday experiences. But also experiences from the past. During his conservatory years, Jacob de Haan played in...

Variazioni in Blue besteht aus einer Reihe von Variationen, die auf melodischen Blueselementen wie die 'blue notes' beruhen. Einer ornamentalen Variation im klassischen Stil schliesst sich eine Blues-...

This piece takes you on a journey to the sunny Californian city of Pasadena. The piece reflects two contrasting aspects of the city,. Firstly the serene expressive side with exquisite statues, works o...

Ministry of Winds provides some interesting food for thought that Jacob de Haan translates into music. What if there was a Ministry of Winds? It would be in charge of the advancement and dissemination...

Belvedere is a beautiful solo for trumpet or flugel horn and is partly taken from City Scapes, a concert work that was inspired by Central Park in New York City. The title Belvedere refers to 'Belvede...

Belvedere is a beautiful solo for trumpet or flugel horn and is partly taken from City Scapes, a concert work that was inspired by Central Park in New York City. The title Belvedere refers to 'Belvede...

With this work, composer Jacob de Haan depicts a procession of the inhabitants of the Basque town Zumarraga to the hermitage of Santa Mar a La Antigua in the mountains nearby. The music, that has care...

This composition musically reveals the secrets of the former Duchy of Savoy. The slow, almost magical beginning describes the beautiful mountain location of the merged villages of La Motte-Servolex. T...

This work is not only about the flow of the Doubs, Ranceuse and Roide rivers that converge at Pont-de-Roide but also about the flow of life and history of this French town. The composition begins fest...

This work describes the way the German river Saar holds the names of all the people who once lived in the area and of those who live there now. The introduction depicts the river flowing toward its co...

Dieses Werk ist von der dramatischen Lebensgeschichte Ludwigs II., ehemaliger König von Bayern, inspiriert. Wegen seines exzentrischen Lebensstils sowie seiner Leidenschaft für mittelalterliche Sagen...

Dieses Werk ist von der dramatischen Lebensgeschichte Ludwigs II., ehemaliger König von Bayern, inspiriert. Wegen seines exzentrischen Lebensstils sowie seiner Leidenschaft für mittelalterliche Sagen...