James Barnes

Prairie Winds Festival is a fast, happy-go-lucky 'opener. ' It is very carefully scored and cross-cued, so that almost any size band can perform it. The Piccolo, 2nd Oboe, 2nd Bassoon, Contra-Alto Cla...

Citadel was composed to commemorate the 150th anniversary of The University of Kansas (1865 to 2015.) It begins with optional offstage chimes (one or two sets [opt.]) to depict the daily ringing of th...

The work opens with a dramatic brass fanfare before moving to a spirited allegro. The slower middle portion is rather 'jazzy' in character with a trumpet solo. After several statements of this lush so...

This dramatic work for young players is intended to portray a noble, mystical pursuit of some great conquest or accomplishment. Full of driving percussion, resolving tone clusters, dramatic brass writ...

Ritmico is a driving, energetic overture for symphonic band. Singing melodic lines are underpinned by infectious rhythmic grooves in the percussion and bass instruments which define the main theme. Th...

Commemoration was commissioned by the members of the Northwest North Carolina Bandmasters Association to recognize the distinguished career of Dr. William A. Gora, the longtime Director of Bands at Ap...

Lonely Beach' is a tone poem about some isolated and not particularly attractive beaches on the northern coast of France which, for a few hours on late Spring day in 1944, were transformed into the mo...

Yorkshire Ballad began in the summer of 1983 with a telephone conversation between James Barnes and Tom Rhoads, who was at that time the band department manager at Southern Music Company. Rhoads sugge...

ELEGY IN THE BAROQUE STYLE steht in g-Moll und ist ein düsteres Werk, das in Erinnerung an den Mentor und lebenslangen Freund des Komponisten, Kenneth Bloomquist, geschrieben wurde. Seine emotionale E...

MAJESTIC ist ein energiegeladenes Werk, das das dramatische Potenzial und den immensen emotionalen und rhythmischen Schwung des modernen Blasorchesters unter Beweis stellen soll. Fanfarenartige Passag...

This symphony, commissioned by and dedicated to Roy Holder and his wonderful Lake Braddock High School Band, is both shorter and simpler to play than the composer's other symphonies, but it loses noth...

James Barnes masterfully scores a handful of the most beloved and famous Christmas carols in this short, three-movement suite for young band. Each movement can be performed individually or as a suite....