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A LITTLE BIT BOSSA is, as the title says, a simple bossa nova with its light and characteristic rhythm. Bossa nova is a Brazilian music genre. It is related to samba and has a strong influence from ja...

Finding the perfect opening piece for the concert is important. Get Ready! has a fanfare as a start, a driving rhythmic main part and a grandiose ending that sets the tone for great concerts. With its...

The film is based on the books by Anne-Cath Vestly about the wooden stick 'Knerten' and his owner 'Little brother' have become very popular since the first film came in 2009. With actors such as Jan G...

This march sounds great and is fun to play for the whole band. Several doublings in the instrumentation makes it suitable also for bands with a limited number of players.

Triptych was commissioned by Midtun Skoles Musikkorps for their 60th anniversary in 2018. The term triptych originally meant a three-part altarpiece but is used today to denote any piece of art in thr...

This work was commissioned by Midtun Skoles Musikkorps (Bergen) and their conductor Christian Breistein. This is one of the best school bands in Norway, consisting of members up to 19 years of age. Aa...

In the forest, not far from my house is Hestefallstjonn. Hestefallstjonn is a pond, and this music describes the atmosphere and feeling you get when standing close to it. Commissioned by the Norwegian...

Everything's Coming Up Roses was composed by Stephen Sondheim (Lyrics) and Jule Styne (Music) in 1959 for the Broadway Musical 'Gypsy: A Musical Fable'. In the original cast, the song was performed by...

Oliver' opened on London's West End in 1960. This musical by Lional Bart is now regarded as one of the biggest and most successful among the british musicals. A musical movie premiered in 1968, also f...

'Miss Crow's Fabulous Orchestra' is taken from Hogne Moe's popular musical of the same name. Miss Crow is going to put on a show, and she does it by starting her own orchestra - and everybody can tak...

'Hey, Look Me Over' was written for the Broadway Musical 'Wildcat' in 1960. In the original version, the song was sung by comedy player Lucille Ball, in her only Broadway role ever. The song are perf...

This arrangement feature music from the advent series 'Luca and the Magical Theater' produced for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in 2021. You may thin out the instrumentation or even mak...

Der beliebte Dixieland-Titel gesetzt für flexible Bläserbesetzung.

Smak av honning' ('Taste of Honey') is one of the greatest hits by Norweian pop band DeLillos. It was first included on the EP 'Smak av honning' in 1995 and also on the 'Sent og tidlig' album-release...

'Blackbird Special' is a song by American band Dirty Dozen Brass Band. The song is an entertainment piece, a good concert opener or encore. When used as a concert opener one may let the different sect...

The American composer Ervan F. "Bud" Coleman was also a guitarist and mandolin player with the popular band "Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass" in the 1960s. He also composed other TJB songs, such as "T...

This arrangement written by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen for Trumpet Solo with Brassband is a meditation on a folk tune from Hallingdal in Norway. The text was originally in German from before 1600.

Greensleeves is a famous and highly valued English folk song. It originated in the Renaissance and is one of the oldest songs that are widely known to most people in Europe. Already in the 1500s it ap...

The Water is Wide, also called 'O Waly, Waly' is one of the most famous and played folksongs. The melody is of English origin based on lyrics which partly date to the 1600s. The theme is used by both...

'In the Evening': This beautiful 'folk-tune' from Hornindal in Norway has been attached to a beautiful poem by the well-know author Arnulf Overland (1889-1968). The poem describes the atmosphere of a...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote music in many genres. The most famous of his works are written in opera, piano concertos and sonatas, symphonies and string quartets and string quintets. Mozart wrote in...

This melody comes from Hogne Moe's book, 'Jonas Almost Schoolboy', which many schools in Norway have performed as a musical. The song has a toe-tapping groove, and a melody which encourages everyone t...

The song about Tom Dooley has been a part of American folk tradition since the 1860's, but became famous worldwide in 1958 when the Kingston Trio made a popular version that became wildly successful....

The melody known as 'A Ya Zain' (also 'Aya Zein' or 'Ayazein,') is most often credited as an Egyptian folk song. The tune is easily recognizable as having Arabic origins by its use of the double harmo...

Sverre Bergh (1915-1980) was a central character in the music scene in Bergen, both as a musical leader at 'Den Nationale Scene' (theatre) and as a director for the 'Festspillene' music festival. He w...