Sheet Music Downloads from Kendor Music: Essential Charts for Band

Each solo in this grade 3-4 collection has its own unique style, and will advance the student as a mallet player.

This collection contains 8 Orff pieces playable by classroom students. The teaching suggestions offered for each piece will get your students playing music right from the first day.

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 2 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). Big Kettles is a grade 2 timpani solo that provides the beginning timpanist with a piece that gives them the feeling of playing a re...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 3+ Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This lively, rhythmic piece requires three timpani and is exciting for performers and audiences alike. No tuning changes are necess...

The eight solos contained in this grade 3-5 collection are suitable for any performing venue or pedagogy. Techniques of tuning, muffling, double-stops and staccato-legato are employed. Styles include...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 4+ Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This grade 4+ timpani solo incorporates a variety of rhythms from both Latin and funk music - very common in drum set playing. In a...

This original explores an exciting array of musical concepts, including tempo changes, mixed meters, metric modulations, dynamic contrasts, and melodic fragments. They all come together in a grade 5 t...

We welcome Patrick Moore to the Kendor family of writers with this grade 3+ timpani solo. This piece was inspired by his son Gavin, as he was learning to walk. To be played with a lot of energy and ex...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 5-6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). The six solos in this collection were inspired by the nicknames of some of the greatest baseball players of all time - all inducte...

John Beck, head of the percussion department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (NY) has written 'The Jury', containing all the musical and technical concepts of classical timpani performing....

This solo collection for contest, recital, audition and lessons presents ten solo originals. 8 are written for two timpani, and 2 are written for three drums. Only the last solo requires just a few tu...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 3-4 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied). This collection of solos ranges in difficulty level from grade 3-4 and is ideally suited to festival, recital, and lesson use. Eac...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied)

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 6 Features Timpani Solo (Unaccompanied)

Intended as a follow-up to Murray's collection for young timpanists, the solos in this volume present developing players with a mix of technical challenges-- pitch changes, rolls, staccato and legato...

Series Timpani Solo. Grade 3-4+ Features Timpani Solo. This grade 3+ - 4 collection is a follow-up to the bestselling collection 'Contest Solos For The Intermediate Timpanist.' Musical styles include...

This set of 19 contest-worthy solos presents a variety of two-drum techniques in musically creative, stylistically diverse settings.

In this challenging duet, a simple fugue is taken through a series of intriguing variations. Midway through the piece, a brief improvisation for each player provides an opportunity to show off their m...

This timpani duet is a contemporary portrayal of an increasingly animated conversation between two people. As the players communicate through their drums, a variety of solo, tutti and call-and-respons...

Starting with the release of Piccolo Espagnol in 1972, through the years the music composed/arranged by James Christensen for his flutist wife Karen has become very popular with piccolo soloists the w...

From Tschaikowsky's immortal Nutcracker, this selection for grade 5 piccolo players retains the original style of the classic theme, making it a perfect choice for contests and recitals. Duration 1:20...

Selected and arranged by professional flutist/educator Amy Kempton and edited by Carl Strommen, these grade 6 editions will become valuable additions to the piccolo Repertoire.

This fiery original in the Spanish style features dramatic trills, rapid scale runs, bold arpeggios, and an exciting accelerando in the final 12 bars.

Emulating the mood and style of great French classics, this tuneful original opens with an expressive, lyrical theme in 3/4 followed by an energetic allegro in 2/4 featuring ornamental grace notes and...

The sound of a piccolo always gets us in the mood for great American songs. This grade 3 medley by master arranger Jim Christensen features some of the best - Yankee Doodle; Dixie; Battle Hymn Of The...