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This powerful arrangement makes one of Tchaikovsky's most popular and dramatic orchestral works accessible for grade 3 concert bands. The expresive chorale that opens the work has been reworked for br...

Two Irish Sketches is a beautiful, original work inspired by Irish legend and folklore. Soaring crescendos and soothing harmonies fill the first movement, entitled 'The Legend of Tully Castle.' 'Dance...

In The Center Ring was written in the autumn of 2003 for the Upper Antioch Grade School Band from Antioch, Illinois, Earl Bush, director. The piece is a musical snapshot of a circus performance, from...

Written for Dan Bell and the Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School Symphonic Band, this work was named by the students for a nearby canyon. Cheyenne Canon presents a wide variety of musical styles from...

John O'Reilly has arranged the classic Christmas hit for beginning bands in a very special way. Sleigh bells, triangle and tom tom establish the processional style that is further enhanced by low bras...

Some of the most popular Christmas selections of all time are included in this delightful arrangement, A Most Wonderful Christmas. Robert Sheldon has included Winter Wonderland, I'll be Home for Chris...

Robert W. Smith has masterfully transcribed this work for a wider range of performing ensembles just in time for the centennial celebration of Leroy Anderson's birth. With nearly every holiday favorit...

In contrast to the opening movement of Ralph Ford's impressive Sea to Sky, Shannon Falls is a lovely ballad portraying the beautiful waterfall of the same name. With a transparent and fluid beginning,...

Flight of the Piasa wurde geschrieben, um die Majestät des legendären Piasa, eines riesigen geflügelten Wesens, und die Tapferkeit des Illini-Stammes zu beschreiben, der über seine Schreckensherrschaf...

Sir Henry J. Wood (1869û1944) wrote his Fantasia on British Sea Songs in 1905 to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of Admiral Lord Nelson's defeat of the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle o...

Rampage! is a relentless, aggressive work that requires wind players and percussionists alike to play with both a great deal of force and finesse. Strong statements in the brass, the interwoven woodwi...

Cantique de Jean Racine was composed by Faure in 1865. This magnificent setting for winds retains all the glory and color of the full chorus and orchestra version, complete with harp and string bass.

Erich Korngold's score to the Sea Hawk , written in 1940, plays more like a symphony than a soundtrack. Jerry Brubaker has created a picturesque suite for symphonic band of several of the majestic the...

Danzas Cubanas is a set of three original dance-like movements, celebrating the joy and energy of Afro-Cuban music and the people of this island-nation.

Ignition is a blindingly fast, raucously energetic concert opener that derives its title from the consecutive rising three-note cells that are the building blocks for almost the entire work. However,...

Inspired by the Native American proverb, 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' Roland Barrett has scored this original composition to musically reflect that...

Mit 'Syzygy' (gr.'syzygia' ='Gespann') wird in der Astronomie eine Konstellation bezeichnet, bei der Sonne, Erde, Mond oder ein anderer Planet auf einer Linie liegen, wie z. B. bei einer Sonnen- oder...

Since the beginning of time man has pondered what happens when our physical body dies. Some believe we go to Heaven. Others doubt its existence entirely. Then there are those who have had near death e...

Since the beginning of time man has pondered what happens when our physical body dies. Some believe we go to Heaven. Others doubt its existence entirely. Then there are those who have had near death e...

In each of the past two years, Robert W. Smith has released a movement from his symphony The Divine Comedy. Musicians, conductors and audiences can now welcome Paradiso, the third movement from the sy...

From the pen of the renowned Robert W. Smith comes this work which includes all of his compositional trademarks: highly inventive percussion writing, stylistic solo creation, and tension and release,...