Jan van der Roost: Advanced Sheet Music

In Sonatina Piccola, consisting of three movements, the piccolo is presented in all its facets. The Ballata Malincolica features some melodic passages and makes the small instrument sing as well as la...

I Shall Love But Thee is an occasional work in the literal sense of the word, since it was originally written on the occasion of the composer's youngest son's wedding. The texts, by William Shakespear...

Knocking at Heaven's Gate brings us into brief contact with heaven through music. There are beautiful solos for euphonium and flugelhorn in the piece, and the trumpets and trombones also play an impor...

Knocking at Heaven's Gate brings us into brief contact with heaven through music. There are beautiful solos for euphonium and flugelhorn in the piece, and the trumpets and trombones also play an impor...

From Ancient Times is a major work for brass band, inspired largely by the music of the Franco-Flemish School of the Renaissance. Hints of Gregorian chant and middle age dances pay tribute to music fr...

In composing Puszta, Jan Van der Roost wrote folk dances related to Slavonic folk music. Its character and sounds are comparable to the Hungarian and Slavonic dances by Brahms and Dvorak and to the Hu...

Already in ancient times, a wooden double-reed instrument called aulos existed on the eastern Mediterranean coast. Images of it have been discovered in various countries that are thousands of years ol...

With solo trombone and trumpet

Contrasts' was written for, and dedicated to, trombone soloist Dr. Brett Baker. As the titles indicates, contrasting elements characterize this challenging piece. The slow movement 'Sounds' has a some...

Namasé Rhapsody di_x005Fffers in several respects from most other concert works by Jan Van der Roost, with its impressive twists and turns and musical allusions to the work of John Adams. A first, mi...

This 'Grand Overture' was commissioned by the 'Nagano Community Band' - Japan- on occasion of its jubilee in 1992 and is dedicated to the band's conductor, Ikuo Inagaki. The work is based upon three m...

This work was written at the request of the trombone section of the Osakan Philharmonic Winds, a professional Japanese wind orchestra with which the composer has already worked several times as a gues...

Puszta, vier feurige ungarische Tänze aus der Feder von Jan Van der Roost. Besetzung: Es-Klarinette, 4 B-Klarinetten, Es-Altklarinette, Bassklarinette, Kontrabassklarinette, Es-Kontra-Altklarinette (a...

Für Hungarian Impressions wurden die ersten beiden Sätze des originalen Blasorchesterwerkes Puszta von Jan Van der Roost exzellent für Klarinettenensemble arrangiert. Zusammen mit Puszta für Klarinett...

The Latin phrase De Profundis translates as 'out of the depths' and this is certainly an appropriate title for this solo work for bass trombone, since the deep voice of the instrument is featured exte...

Saltimbanque has several meanings: artist, magician, acrobat, artisan and even buffoon. Indeed, both corner movements require a lot from the soloist, who will need to perform acrobatic feats here and...

The magical world of King Arthur, Merlin and Mordred is the setting for Avalon. Unexpected opening figures portray the sudden entrance into another world. A choral-like melody represents the processio...

Spartacus is a 'Symphonic Tone Poem' with 3 joints. Each section has its own melodical materials, however: in the final movement the main theme from the second section returns in a 'grandioso'- tutti....

Jan Van der Roost received the commission for this work from the 'Orchestre d'Harmonie du Val d'Aoste' and dedicated the composition to Lino Blanchod, the conductor of the orchestra. The first perform...

Sinfonietta consists of four movements that have no thematic or musical relationship with each other. Each movement has its own character and atmosphere, which displays a variety of qualities and poss...