Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble

The heroic knights and the magnificent castles! This short, simple piece uses only the first 6 notes found in most method books and makes a great first ever brass ensemble piece for a very young ensem...

This Latin style dance has a taste of American jazz and Afro-Cuban music. Popular in the 1940's and 1950's, the mambo is once again all the rage. With spicy rhythms, a dash of syncopation and a large...

The Perilous Seat was a chair intentionally left vacant at King Arthur's round table. It was reserved for the bravest knight who was willing to take on the quest for the Holy Grail. If someone sat in...

This is the most famous section from Bach's Cantata No. 208. It has been arranged here for brass ensemble and it makes an ideal piece to be used at special events such as weddings. All parts are inter...

The Girl With The Flaxen Hair and Golliwog's Cakewalk are two of Claude Debussy's most popular piano works. Full of dense impressionistic harmonies and lightened with rag-time rhythmic elements, this...

The pieces in Fanfare and Procession are taken from the works of two of England's master composers. The opening fanfare and first part of the processional are taken from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance...

Still for brass quintet was commissioned by the Gaudete Brass Quintet and composed especially for this ensemble. The world premiere took place on October 25, 2013 as part of a live broadcast of the pr...

Still for brass quintet was commissioned by the Gaudete Brass Quintet and composed especially for this ensemble. The world premiere took place on October 25, 2013 as part of a live broadcast of the pr...

With this suite for brass quintet, David Sampson paints a striking musical portrait of Chesapeake Bay and the maritime world of Annapolis. In four contrasting movements, the composer creates colorful...

With this suite for brass quintet, David Sampson paints a striking musical portrait of Chesapeake Bay and the maritime world of Annapolis. In four contrasting movements, the composer creates colorful...

Exact instrumentation: small Eb-flugelhorn, cornet, horn, trombone, ophicleide (or 2 cornets, horn, trombone, euphonium or 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba) These 12 quintets, composed between 1848 an...

This work for trumpet/flugelhorn, horn, and tenor trombone was written in 2002 on commission from Dorothy Duncan as a gift to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of her brother, trumpet player James Dunca...

RASS'N ROLL is a scherzo for brass ensemble and percussion (16 brass players and 4 percussionists), composed in a decidedly energetic and contemporary style. The work explores a distinctive rhythmic u...

RASS'N ROLL is a scherzo for brass ensemble and percussion (16 brass players and 4 percussionists), composed in a decidedly energetic and contemporary style. The work explores a distinctive rhythmic u...

Gerónimo Giménez (1854-1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer, who dedicated his career to writing zarzuelas, such as La Tempranica and La Boda de Luis Alonso. In 1885, he was named director of th...

For 'Eastwind', Jean-François Michel was cleverly inspired by the rich Balkan or Eastern European musical folklore, which was introduced by the gypsies in countless variations wherever they settled. T...

A day like many others with special and sometimes unique moments and feelings: a spiritual calling which touches you deeply; an exciting encounter that you're anxiously waiting for; a grey sky that re...

One aspect when writing for brass quintet that has always interested me has been all the available color and timbre possibilities. My first brass quintet, Four Sketches (BIM ENS48 - 1990), explored a...

Fanfare of Hope was composed in 2003. It was commissioned by the Elgin, Illinois Youth Symphony Orchestra for their brass choir and premiered by that group. Community youth orchestras are an important...

These three pieces taken from Monteverdi's opera 'Orfeo' ('La favola d'Orfeo, 1607) were instrumental interludes to be played between scenes. The famous 'Toccata', which Monteverdi also used in his Ve...

Jan Koetsier writes within a given form and develops the material according to rigid structural frameworks, while his musical lines are distinguished by a rich melodic and rhythmic imagination. His wo...