Jacob de Haan Sheet Music for Concert Band

Free World Fantasy was commissioned in Holland for celebrations commemorating the liberation of Groningen, and therefore symbolises the dream of a world without war. It is the first piece of a series...

Inspiration bezieht Jacob de Haan also aus ganz unterschiedlichen Dingen. Auslandsreisen, Spaziergängen, Alltagserlebnissen. Aber auch Erfahrungen aus der Vergangenheit. Während seiner Konservatoriums...

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...

The main theme of this composition was created in the night of the 10th of August, one of those clear nights with stars falling softly in order not to wake the dreams. While writing it, the Italian co...

This three-movement work describes the picturesque Vosges, a range of low mountains in the north-east of France. The beauty of this region is expressed in slow passages, energetic parts, compelling mu...

The introductory theme of this composition echoes the majestic size of the mountains that are visible from the picture-postcard Cortina d'Ampezzo-the socalled 'Queen of the Dolomites'. Then we hear a...

The Universal Band Collection ist eine Sammlung von fünf kurzen Werken im Popstil. Die einzelnen Teile können als zusammenhängende Suite aufgeführt oder als eigenständige Titel gespielt werden. Eine v...

Energy, an irrepressible desire to dance and powerful "pumping" basses form the perfect combination of ingredients for the track Pump It Up! Exciting melody lines and swinging rhythms over a tight bea...

Band Time Expert by Jacob de Haan now seeks to enlarge training bands musical horizons by increasing the possible combinations of instruments. This publication is suitable for musicians in their secon...

A composition of much contrast based on a well-known psalm melody. As its title announces, it starts with a majestic introduction in which parts of the psalm melody can be heard. Next we hear the comp...

Claudio Monteverdi composed this toccata as an instrumental introduction for the opera L'Orfeo (1607). According to the composer, this introduction should be played three times before the rising of th...

This moving symphonic poem is about the French region of Lorraine. Since the time of the Roman Empire, Lorraine has been ruled by either Germany or France with wars redrawing national boundaries many...

Wir schlüpfen in die Haut von Miguel und reisen mit ihm nach Australien. Einigermassen entfremdet von seiner spanischen Heimat schlendert er durch das Viertel The Rocks in Sydney. Auf einem kleinen Ma...

Lunteren, a village on the Veluwe (a wooded region in the Netherlands), sets the scene annually for a village festival dominated by folklore. Festa Paesana (Italian for village festival) is set to mus...

Jacob de Haan ist zu Gast in der Region Veluwe und vertont auf seine eigene Weise das jährliche Dorffest - ganz im Zeichen des Brauchtums in Lunteren. 'Als Thema wählte ich ein niederländisches Volksl...

The Dakota (or Sioux) Indians from the American states of North and South Dakota form the central figures in this composition. The work consists of five movements in which the culture and history of t...

Ottoman Dances is a work by Jacob de Haan consisting of two dances in south-eastern European style. One of them comes from Bosnia Herzegovina and the other from Turkey. Both countries were part of the...

Singapore Rhapsody is an exciting work in two movements based on popular Malaysian folksongs. The songs that occur in the first movement are Rasa Sayang eh (a love song), Gelang Sipaku Gelang (a song...

The effortlessness with which Rossini wrote his melodies verges on the incredible. In over twenty years, he composed about forty operas. And who does not know the famous William Tell Overture from his...

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...

Eventide (Song of Liberation) has as its theme the European liberation from the Second World War. After a solemn introduction, one hears the melody of the hymn Abide with Me, which was sung frequently...

This concert march is a tribute to the 'pioneers' in the world of brass music in the Lowlands of Netherlands, the original founders of the bands and the people who take the lead in organising the soci...

The theme of this work is the history of the town of Grafenrheinfeld (Bavaria, Germany) in the twentieth century, a town that is now mainly associated with its nuclear plant. The German word for this...