Grand Mesa Music

Jared Spears has here written another wonderfully exciting, creative, and very approachable work for young bands that works well for almost any combination of wind and percussion instruments. The titl...

What a way to introduce young band students to the swing style! This atmospheric work depicts a Chicago gangster's private night club in small-town Indiana. Its irresistable melody, shout chorus, and...

Based on 'The Drunken Sailor', this freewheeling set of variations creates a compelling musical journey. From the opening statement of the theme, the musical excitement grows and builds into a musical...

The frenzied days of California's old Rush are captured in this creative musical portrait. Opening with the flowing sounds of the American River, the idyllic scene is punctuated by the moment of disco...

Reminiscent of medieval times, this work brings the pageantry and majesty of kings and the courts alive in musical colors. From reflective opening to court dance, the young band will experience the st...

The richness and mystery of the Russian Steppes is captured in this compelling musical portrait. Though ranges and rhythm requirements permit it to be performed by very young groups, other musical asp...

The title for this Western flavored overture comes from the ponderosa pine, a large conifer that is native to the mountains of the western United States. The music stirringly portrays the wild and rug...

Nitsch, a young Texas composer and arranger, here creates a highly dramatic, stunningly original musical vision. Simple, chordal sections give way to intensely dissonant passages to heighten the music...

Fantasia: 'Composition in improvisatory style...unfolding freely...with varying textures and without continued adherence to a definite meter or form' (according to Grout's 'A History of Western Music'...

Welcome to a wild musical romp through an imaginary amusement park! A carnival-like atmosphere is immediately created with a rousing 16th note melody and several multi-meter excursions. Later, a middl...

This remarkable Renaissance transcription begins with a chant-like solo for oboe, clarinet, trumpet or euphonium that leads into a fascinating contrapuntal tapestry. English organist and composer Gibb...

This powerful and exciting new work amply displays again why Rob Grice is one of the most quickly rising stars in the band music world. It was inspired by the 2004 hurricane season that spawned some o...

Using the centuries-old form of Passacaglia (slow dance with a ground bas of four measures), Broege here creates a delightful, inherently musical setting for young band as only he could create. Green...

Written in a traditional 12 bar blues form, this rollicking composition in rock style features great percussion writing, snappy melodies, and precisely written articulations. This is great material fo...

Written to commemorate the career of a longtime South Carolina educator and administrator, this fabulous band composition has everything a fine piece of music should contain: memorable melodies, snapp...

Written by a Colorado composer who himself is a middle school band director, this work was commissioned by and dedicated to the Franklin Middle School and of Greeley, Colorado. Vogel here displays a v...

Taking an extremely creative and engaging organ arrangement, by Joe Utterback,of an ancient tune, Tim Broege here displays his creativity and mastery of band scoring to shed a very unique and compelli...

The arranger draws on a rich bag of nursery rhyme songs and a fertile imagination to create one of the most exuberant band settings to come along in years! Snippets of familiar tunes are combined and...

The composer has created the quintessential western band composition here. Commissioned by the Malta, Montana high school band, the work was written to commemorate the Homestead Act of 1862 and the br...

If the trees could sing, this might be their theme song! In a debut published work , this Texas composer here gives the band world a gem of sweeping lyricism. The darker sonorities of the clarinet and...

Letting his vivid imagination run freely in his unique soundcape, Nitsch has created a delightful retrospective musical look back at the days of the American Revolution. The melodic materials are a co...

Many moods of the sea are portrayed in this varied and gripping musical scenario. The beginning evokes a tranquil sea, later being tossed by growing winds. The work builds to present the maelstrom of...

This is a gripping composition that takes the form of a stately fanfare. Using dotted rhythms, the motive of an ascending fifth, and very creative harmonies, Bobrowitz has created a unique and powerfu...

Showing his extreme versatility, composer Bobrowitz has created an authentic-sounding work in the early ragtime style. Every measure of this rag is charged with great scoring touches as the melodic li...

A composer closes his eyes and sits in his darkened studio. His mind becomes a stream of images that take him in many directions. From the fertile imagination of composer Bobrowitz comes this extremel...