James Barnes Sheet Music for Concert Band

This piece is taken from Tchaikovsky's 'Album for the Young', op. 39 for solo piano. Every effort has been made by the arranger to make this setting sound as much as possible like the orchestra music...

Yorkshire Ballad began in the summer of 1983 with a telephone conversation between James Barnes and Tom Rhoads, who was at that time the band department manager at Southern Music Company. Rhoads sugge...

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...

Chorales included: I. A Rose is Blooming (Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen), II. O World, I Now Must Leave Thee (O Welt, Ich muss dich lassen).

Chorales included: I. A Rose is Blooming (Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen), II. O World, I Now Must Leave Thee (O Welt, Ich muss dich lassen).

One of the most exceptional graduate students during the composer's more than thirty years teaching at the University of Kansas was Naoya Takizawa, who came to KU from Tokyo, Japan in 1995. Since his...

One of the most exceptional graduate students during the composer's more than thirty years teaching at the University of Kansas was Naoya Takizawa, who came to KU from Tokyo, Japan in 1995. Since his...

One of the most exceptional graduate students during the composer's more than thirty years teaching at the University of Kansas was Naoya Takizawa, who came to KU from Tokyo, Japan in 1995. Since his...

Commissioned by the Freedom High School Band to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of that school's hometown: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Realizing that Bethlehem was in the very center of the many settleme...

The first two fanfares are each dedicated to a U.S. miltary service band, and the last is dedicated to the American Band Masters Association.

This piece is taken from Tchaikovsky's 'Album for the Young', op. 39 for solo piano. Every effort has been made by the arranger to make this setting sound as much as possible like the orchestra music...

This piece is taken from Tchaikovsky's 'Album for the Young', op. 39 for solo piano. Every effort has been made by the arranger to make this setting sound as much as possible like the orchestra music...

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...

Lonely Beach' is a tone poem about some isolated and not particularly attractive beaches on the northern coast of France which, for a few hours on late Spring day in 1944, were transformed into the mo...

This work for early intermediate bands is a wonderful selection for contest or a concert opening.

Fanfare and Processional by celebrated composer James Barnes is a rousing concert opener for younger bands, or may be performed as an occasional piece at ceremonies. (Grade 2.5)

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

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

Dedicated 'to the memory of Gene Clapp, our good friend, teacher and colleague'. Commissioned by his many friends in Hays, Kansas.

Dedicated 'to the memory of Gene Clapp, our good friend, teacher and colleague'. Commissioned by his many friends in Hays, Kansas.