Scores for Orchestra

This delightfully eerie piece is now available in a slightly abridged version suitable for better orchestras. A much better choice than using the original edition.

If the name of this one isn't familiar to you, just think dancing hippos from "Fantasia." Everyone will recognize this delightful piece, and it's wonderfully fun to play. From Ponchielli's ballet "La...

From Smetana's famous Bohemian opera, "The Bartered Bride," this familiar movement is an audience favorite with its lively rhythms and characteristic melodies. It's edited from the original and has so...

This is one of the most dramatic works in the symphonic repertoire! Whether you have seen Fantasia or not, one listen and this music strikes you as frightening and powerful! As true to the original as...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ride" is often...

Popularly known as the "New World Symphony," Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 9 in E minor was composed in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. A m...

This overture is from First Suite in A minor and was composed in 1725. It is one of the most dramatic of all of his works. This edition has been scored by Clifford P. Barnes. Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2:...

A fresh, overture-like work written on an old theme of Hebrew origin, a bombastic, short opening gives way to an extended legato andantino section featuring all of the woodwind family. Rhythmic excite...

The White River flows very near The Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and meets Lake Michigan in Muskegan County, Michigan. Many legends can be told about this river and the beautiful region where it is locate...

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), while born in Italy, is associated with France, where he became a violinist in the court orchestra of the Sun King, Louis XIV, becoming the King's favorite musician as...

This evocative setting for full orchestra is the second of four movements representing the life of early Native Americans of the Southwest United States. The lyric melodies and flowing lines portray t...

All the melodic lines are written in the Dorian mode (D minor, played most of the time on the white keys of the piano) and except for the modern snare drum, the percussion evokes the character of the...

First performance at the XIII Olympic Winter Games 1980, Lake Placid, New York, by the Crane Chorus and Orchestra, State University College, Potsdam, New York. Instrumentation: 2.2.2+BCl+CBCl.2+CBsn:...

Based on WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME; GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH; and AMERICA. "A real crowd pleaser." (The Instrumentalist)

A composition with Eastern European folklore flavor, with a great range of contrast, from a dramatic, melancholic adagio to a frantic 'Transylvanian' folk dance. (VN)

A dramatic, exuberant composition, in which even an average junior high school orchestra can achieve a genuine, big symphonic sound. "Written in D minor, Overture for Orchestra ...is a terrific select...

In this arrangement of the popular tune (AMERICA or GOD SAVE THE QUEEN), Nelhybel begins with fragments of the melody and gradually coalesces them to the final unison strain. The work includes a solo...