Molenaar Concert Band Sheet Music

From 1970 the composer Henk van Lijnschooten, wrote music under the pseudonym Ted Huggens. This light music has been melodically and harmonically based on classical principles, but there is almost alw...

The movie picture 'Exodus' by film director Otto Preminger with Paul Newman in the cast is based on a novel with the same title by Leon Uris. The title-song (with lyrics by Pat Boone) survived the fil...

A tasteful mix of christmas standards, surprisingly arranged by one of our greatest composers.

Here's at last a nice new piece of music for your Christmas concert: Michael W. Smith composed this enchanting music in the style of John Williams' film music for E. T. and Harry Potter. Henk Ummels s...

This composition by Andrew Pearce was commissioned by the French television channel TF1, to celebrate the end of the year's festivities. This bright and festive piece features euphonium soloists with...

Wondrous Intrada. An exciting opener for any Christmas concert, based upon the carol Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (A Great and Mighty Wonder). The work is carefully scored to work for a reduced band if...

Everybody knows the very popular song 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo', actually a thirteenth century French carol called 'Les Anges dans nos Campagnes' (The angels in our countryside). Jef Penders (1928) wro...

Pjotr Iljitch Tchaikovsky is not only famous for his poignant symphonies and virtuoso concertos, but is also popular thanks to his romantic ballet music. The Nutcracker Ballet was inspired by the fair...

The haunting Normandy Carol is an alternative tune for Away in a Manger. This free set of variations [on the carol] also features a recurring motif from Silent Night and contains several tributes to w...

Feliz Navidad (Spanish for 'happy Christmas) is one of the most popular Christmas Carols of Latin America and it has been performed by many artists (such as José Feliciano). This piece in the shape of...

Why not take a plane to Rio de Janeiro to celebrate Christmas and dance a samba to the tune of Jingle Bells Goes Rio close by the famous Sugar Loaf Mountain? The extremely popular American song Jingle...

The Dutch conductor and composer Vincent van den Bijlaard (Rheden, 1968) already attracted attention with his 'Winter Symphony' . Now he arranged a set of ten international famous Christmas Songs whic...

English Christmas Festival is the result of a challenge from Kew Wind Orchestra - write a Christmas medley with no overlap with the Leroy Anderson Christmas Festival. It is based upon six English Caro...

Four Inappropriate Carols presents some familiar Christmas tunes in unexpected styles. Silent Night Rag, Coventry Tango, L'enfant de la promesse (Away in a Manager as a gymnopédie from Erik Satie) and...

Medieval Christmas Medley. Featuring five carols from the 16th century songbook Piae Cantiones - Unto Us is Born a Son, Divinum Mysterium (Of the Father's Love Begotten), Good King Wenceslas, Gaudete...

Kees Vlak composed the 'Christmas Time' suite for band in which he used German, Hungarian and Dutch Christmas carols.

Willy Hautvast also composed a similar international Christmas suite for symphonic band 'Merry Christmas' (1993) containing a.o. 'Joy to the World', 'O, Little Town of Bethle-hem', 'Away in a Manger',...

For those who prefer swinging music, Willy Hautvast wrote the selection A Swinkling Christmas with American and English carols such as Let it snow, White Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, the re...

Leroy Anderson(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1908 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1975) was the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied music and foreign languages at the famous Harvard University before starting...

Equally varied, certainly as to the countries of origin, is the wind band suite (eventually with mixed choir) 'An International Christmas' (1979) in which Kees Vlak used Italian and Czech carols.