Instrumentalwerke für Blasorchester

This American folk-dance set for concert band is based on the tune 'Spoon River', which a Captain Charles H. Robinson heard in 1857 being played by a rustic fiddler at a country dance in Brandford, Il...

Pegasus is the winged horse of Greek mythology that carried his rider into many daring exploits. Zeus rewards his heroism by making him a constellation in the stars. In Medieval times he became the sy...

Made up of tightly woven riffs, El Muro suggests a variety of Latin American musical styles, from the Colombian cumbia, Peruvian huayno, Mexican son, and the Cuban montuno. Venezuelan-born composer Ri...

The piece follows a ride on the TGV, France's 'bullet train. ' It opens with the sounds of a French railway station and parallels a journey with various accelerations and speed shifts.

Originally commissioned for the celebration of Tennessee's 'Homecoming '86, ' Jug Blues & Fat Pickin' is without peer in the wind band repertoire. Inspired by recording of the Memphis Jug Band, the mo...

Diversion was composed while Bernhard Heiden served as Assistant Bandmaster for the 445th US Army band during World War II. This first-ever print edition has been carefully edited and adapted with mod...

When James Barnes was commissioned to compose a work for the United States Army Band to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War, he decided to combine two massive structures into o...

Credo is an ideal piece for young bands, particularly those with a large percussion section. It is very carefully scored and cross-cued, so that almost any size band can perform it. Composed in sonati...

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 Gozzi's Turandot - in one form or another - occupied Busoni at various times in the years 1904-1917. He was very fond of fantastical, magical tales: his immediately preceding work was the Piano Co...

Folk Tune' (also known as 'Sheep Shearing Song') was originally composed for piano by Eugène Goosens. This setting for symphonic band by Percy Grainger bears the hallmark ingenious application of inst...

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...

Genesys Fanfare was written for and performed by the members of the Brass and Percussion sections of the Flint Symphony Orchestra. Later the work was rescored for full orchestra and ultimately for con...

This arrangement is based on the Swedish folksong Ack, Värmeland, du sköna. Although the folksong is presented with some alterations, an attempt is made to capture the attractiveness of the melody and...

Victory (Nike) is comprised of three sections: Allegro-Largo-Allegro. The melodic elements within the movements share the same intervallic shapes, as they are varied in different tempi, rhythmic, harm...

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...

I Left My Heart in San Francisco ist ein beliebter Song, der zu einem zeitlosen Favoriten geworden ist, der sich über Generationen erstreckt. Mit der Musik von George Cory und dem Text von Douglass Cr...

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...