Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Christine Grace M. Richardson’s debut work in the Barnhouse catalog, "Penguins," is a delightful beginning band composition that will amuse and entertain performers and audiences alike! Utilizing a li...

Christine Grace M. Richardson’s debut work in the Barnhouse catalog, "Penguins," is a delightful beginning band composition that will amuse and entertain performers and audiences alike! Utilizing a li...

The Enchanted Carousel takes your students and audiences on a delightful carousel ride to experience the rise and fall of the horses as the carousel slowly spins round and round. The up and down movem...

The Enchanted Carousel takes your students and audiences on a delightful carousel ride to experience the rise and fall of the horses as the carousel slowly spins round and round. The up and down movem...

Here’s the perfect piece to teach articulation to your beginning band! "Articulation Station" serves as terrific and tuneful teaching material for young musicians mastering slurs versus staccatos. Usi...

Here’s the perfect piece to teach articulation to your beginning band! "Articulation Station" serves as terrific and tuneful teaching material for young musicians mastering slurs versus staccatos. Usi...

Developing lyrical style with beginning musicians is tremendously important, and Valerie Shanley’s "By The Light Of The Moon" is an excellent melodic work for first-semester musicians. This contempora...

Developing lyrical style with beginning musicians is tremendously important, and Valerie Shanley’s "By The Light Of The Moon" is an excellent melodic work for first-semester musicians. This contempora...

The irresistible feel and infectious rhythms of "Ya Mon!" will whisk your audience away to a magical time in Jamaica! The greeting "Ya Mon!" is Jamaican for "yeah man" or "all right" and the light, up...

The irresistible feel and infectious rhythms of "Ya Mon!" will whisk your audience away to a magical time in Jamaica! The greeting "Ya Mon!" is Jamaican for "yeah man" or "all right" and the light, up...

Whodunit? Composed to celebrate a band program’s successful cookie dough fundraiser, "The Cookie Thief" uses cinematic driving rhythms to depict an energetic chase scene, hot in pursuit of the baked g...

Whodunit? Composed to celebrate a band program’s successful cookie dough fundraiser, "The Cookie Thief" uses cinematic driving rhythms to depict an energetic chase scene, hot in pursuit of the baked g...

A gripping and emotional work about the journey and trials of immigrants searching for a new life.

This lovely ballad about the winter season is perfect for teaching blend, balance, and phrasing to developing band students.  With soaring melodies, beautiful harmonic accompaniments, and gentle percu...

Symphony in Blue & Gold was commissioned to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Bands at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As a starting point, I researched and studied two signifi...

Like the Wind was commissioned by the Wisconsin Arts Board to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The piece was inspired by the poem of the same title (also commissioned by the WAB) by Wisconsin poet laur...

Baskerville is inspired by imagined scenes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, specifically the setting of the moors. During much of the story, Holmes is...

Baskerville is inspired by imagined scenes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, specifically the setting of the moors. During much of the story, Holmes is...

Baskerville is inspired by imagined scenes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, specifically the setting of the moors. During much of the story, Holmes is...

The title "Category 4" refers to Hurricane Harvey, classified as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. This piece for Concert Band with iPad utilizes a large percussion se...

Clocktower Fanfare utilizes the familiar chimes of the Westminster Quarters heard on many college campuses. This academic fanfare works well as a concert opener, as well as at graduation and commencem...

Fairest of the Renaissance Faire takes melodic themes and motives from John Philip Sousa's march Fairest of the Fair. These melodic materials are transformed into a Renaissance context, with inspirati...

Florence and Alice Leduc were sisters who founded and ran Hastings Needle Work out of their home in Hastings, MN from 1888-1922. The story of these two young women who used their creativity and needle...

This four-movement suite features a series of vignettes from a speculative-fictional Victorian era.

The idea behind Springtime Ride is a group of young people riding bikes through their neighborhood when the weather finally warms up enough to do so. I wanted to capture the freedom and optimism that...