James Barnes Sheet Music for Concert Band

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...

Italian Wedding Song is a lyrical, very romantic song in G minor, reminiscent in some ways of the music of Puccini and Verdi. Like Barnes' Yorkshire Ballad, it is a brief, solemn work, perfect for tea...

Unvergessliche Melodien von Leroy Anderson

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...

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...

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...

Hope Arises is one of two new works requested in 2021 of composer James Barnes by Colonel Donald Schofield, to be written for the United States Air Force Band. It is a short piece intended to be used...

Capriccio is the third composition by James Barnes that resulted from a commission by the Zushi High School Alumni Band in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is a light-hearted, happy piece in rondo form,...

Capriccio is the third composition by James Barnes that resulted from a commission by the Zushi High School Alumni Band in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is a light-hearted, happy piece in rondo form,...

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...

Composed during the summer and fall of 1974, Barnes' FIRST SYMPHONY, Op. 35 was his master's thesis at The University of Kansas. It was premiered in the spring semester of 1976 by their Symphonic Band...

Composed during the summer and fall of 1974, Barnes' First Symphony, Op. 35 was his master's thesis at The University of Kansas. It was premiered in the spring semester of 1976 by their Symphonic Band...

MAJESTIC is an energetic work intended to showcase the dramatic potential and immense emotional and rhythmic drive of the modern wind band. Fanfare-like passages in the brass intermix with virtuosic w...

James Barnes komponierte seine 'Dance Variantsop. 146 anlässlich des 40-jährigen Jubiläums der Honolulu Wind Symphony auf Hawaii. Das Werk kombiniert die beiden Kompositionsformen der typischen A-B-A-...

Ich schrieb 'Threnody' (Klagelied) in Erinnerung an einen guten alten Freund, den Saxophonisten Thomas Liley. Wir kannten uns seit der Schulzeit, waren gemeinsam an der Universität und haben sogar in...

Das frühe Opus (komponiert 1982) des renommierten US-amerikanischen Komponisten für Blasorchester lässt bereits da und dort den Meister erkennen: ein sehr einfacher Marsch für Jugendspiele.

Composed of three movements, BROOKSHIRE SUITE begins with a 'Fanfare and March. ' The unique second movement is entitled 'Little Jazz Song' and features lush contemporary textures. The 'Fugue' is intr...

Composed of three movements, BROOKSHIRE SUITE begins with a 'Fanfare and March. ' The unique second movement is entitled 'Little Jazz Song' and features lush contemporary textures. The 'Fugue' is intr...

Composed of three movements, BROOKSHIRE SUITE begins with a 'Fanfare and March. ' The unique second movement is entitled 'Little Jazz Song' and features lush contemporary textures. The 'Fugue' is intr...

'Goldene Kameraden' habe ich für das Jubiläum '50 Jahre Musikverlag Rundel' komponiert. Der Titel nimmt zum einen natürlich Bezug auf das goldene Jubiläum der Firma und meiner Freunde, die dort arbeit...

Commissioned by the Kansas Commission for the Celebration of the BiCentennial of the United States Constitution.

This march in 6/8 was commissioned by All My Friends in The 312th U.S. Army Reserve Band.