Southern Music Company

A Child's Embrace' was written to commemorate the birth of the composer's first child, Katherine Anne Young, who was born on January 18th, 2000. It has been scored in such a way as to permit performan...

Scottish Highland Overture is based very loosely on the Scottish folk song, 'The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow. ' The faster 'A' section contains lots of rhythmic interplay between voices while the 'B' section...

Fanfare and Processional by celebrated composer James Barnes is a rousing concert opener for younger bands in the vein of the familiar Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar. With generous cross-cuing...

Cottonwood Falls draws its inspiration from the Great Plains of Oklahoma, and Kansas' Flint Hills. A faster, rhythmically active theme depicts the myriad wildflowers and teeming wildlife in this lands...

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

Contains practical solutions to specific problems in the performance of 20th Century band music and beyond. In 14 exercises master conductor and composer Francis McBeth focuses on seven areas in his s...

Volume 3 includes several advanced problems in the areas of ensemble reading and performance. These include smaller rhythmic divisions, more complex syncopation and asymmetrical meters in the area of...

This unique method takes a practical approach in teaching the essential musical skills to the entire band. With consistent attention to the three fundamentals addressed in this book - technique, rhyth...

An early work written in 1908 while the composer was still studying with Rimsky-Korsakov, 'Fireworks' is dedicated to his teacher's daught Nadia and her husband Maximilian Steinberg, and gave the youn...

Strauss took the title 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' from the highly controversial book of the same name by Friedrich Nietzsche for this forward-looking tone-poem. This piece, although written in a passio...

Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826) grew up in a musical family that longed for him to be a musical prodigy like is relation (by marriage), W.A. Mozart. As a young man, he met famed clarinetist Heinric...

Was written at the suggestion of and as a tribute to the United States Strategic Air Command. Two editions of the Strategic Air Command March are published: the complete Concert March version, and a q...

Commissioned by the Madison Junior High Band in Abilene, Texas, conducted by Warren Faxton.

Commissioned by the Madison Junior High Band in Abilene, Texas, conducted by Warren Faxton.

Mit „Masque“ für Blasorchester präsentiert Southern Music Company ein meisterhaftes und ausdrucksstarkes Werk der Konzertliteratur. 1967 vom State College of Arkansas anlässlich der feierlichen Einwei...

Though originally composed for the pedal harpsichord, this work has long been associated with the organ. It is the grandeur and colors of that instrument which this arrangement for symphonic band stri...

Though originally composed for the pedal harpsichord, this work has long been associated with the organ. It is the grandeur and colors of that instrument which this arrangement for symphonic band stri...

Drammatico was commissioned by the Monahans High School Band, Monahans, Texas, under the direction of Dan Gibb, and was premiered under the baton of the composer.