James Barnes: Intermediate Sheet Music

Three Academy Awards were bestowed upon the original motion picture and the music from the soundtrack has become some of the most memorable of this generation. Now, for concert band, James Barnes crea...

Tribute is a stirring, colorful, and energetic work from one of the most highly regarded composers for concert bands. James Barnes has crafted this attractive overture as a gift for James K. Copenhave...

This energetic piece appears on many state required lists and is among the prestigious All-Japan Top 100 band pieces. Based on folk-like melodies and featuring playable solo passages, the work is safe...

The music from this timeless masterwork has fascinated generation after generation. Oddly enough, at its premiere the critics presented mixed reaction: some calling it the pioneering work of a new fol...

Composed in the summer of 1984, Yorkshire Ballad was premiered at the Kansas Bandmasters Association Convention by Claude T. Smith and the Kansan Intercollegiate Band. Since its publication, it has be...

Three Academy Awards were bestowed upon the original motion picture and the music from the soundtrack has become some of the most memorable of this generation. Now, for concert band, James Barnes crea...

This work was written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the city of Lawrence, Kansas, home to composer James Barnes for years. Like all Barnes scores, Jubilation Overture is a mode...

Tribute is a stirring, colorful, and energetic work from one of the most highly regarded composers for concert bands. James Barnes has crafted this attractive overture as a gift for James K. Copenhave...

Tribute is a stirring, colorful, and energetic work from one of the most highly regarded composers for concert bands. James Barnes has crafted this attractive overture as a gift for James K. Copenhave...

Tribute is a stirring, colorful, and energetic work from one of the most highly regarded composers for concert bands. James Barnes has crafted this attractive overture as a gift for James K. Copenhave...

Sure to become a staple of the concert band repertoire, 'Symphonic Essay' is a dramatic work featuring brass fanfares, tonal pyramids, and startling polyharmonies. The mysterious undertones of the pie...

Nessun Dorma (None shall sleep) is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, and is one of the best-known tenor arias in all of opera. It achieved pop status after Luciano Pavaro...

Risoluto is a music term of Italian derivation, first appearing in the mid 1700s. A great many musical terms such as this are in Italian, because many of the important composers from the Renaissance t...

Risoluto is a music term of Italian derivation, first appearing in the mid 1700s. A great many musical terms such as this are in Italian, because many of the important composers from the Renaissance t...

Composed for the Indiana Wind Symphony, The Lightning Brigade by American composer James Barnes celebrates John T. Wilder, an Indiana historical figure in the Civil War who headed a famous brigade of...

Written in a quick two, this Show-Style Opener lives up to its title with much of the thematic materials in the opening theme faalling to the brass, while the woodwinds interject flourishes and counte...

Dramatic Overture is a lively, celebratory piece commissioned to mark the 80th anniversary of the band. It begins with a stark, powerful introduction of the main theme by the trombones and percussion,...

Dramatic Overture is a lively, celebratory piece commissioned to mark the 80th anniversary of the band. It begins with a stark, powerful introduction of the main theme by the trombones and percussion,...

This energetic piece appears on many state required lists and is among the prestigious All-Japan Top 100 band pieces. Based on folk-like melodies and featuring playable solo passages, the work is safe...

Unvergessliche Melodien von Leroy Anderson

Cast in G minor, ELEGY IN THE BAROQUE STYLE is a somber work written in memory of the composer's mentor and lifelong friend Kenneth Bloomquist. Its emotional introduction eventually eases into a baroq...

CONCERTINO FOR BASSOON, Opus 171 was commissioned by Dr. Mark Rogers and was premiered in April 2023 by the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Dr. Paul Popiel conductor, with Eric Stomberg playing ba...