Leichte Noten von Grand Mesa Music

Beware the black hole! This fun and dramatic piece is perfect for beginning ensembles. All sections get to play the minor melodies, and with too many opportunities to play in the rests, students will...

Floating in a Dream: Close your eyes and imagine you are floating while you are dreaming, best accomplished with the help of a beautiful melody accompanying the dream. This piece uses legato style bow...

Spiders on the Loose: Students will love this easy piece which portrays spiders insidiously creeping and crawling up their arms, represented by eighth notes. Each section gets to play the exciting mel...

Elgar’s Andante and March was taken from a set of pieces by Edward Elgar for violin and piano that I used to play with my daughter when she was a young violin student. I appreciated that a young violi...

Trumpet solo with piano accompaniment.

Commissioned and premiered by the Centennial Jr. High Band, Montrose, Colorado, this expansive concert band work is descriptive of the world's largest flat-topped mountain. Juxtaposition of triple and...

Written in the style of the hauntingly beautiful music played by the Gamelan orchestras of Indonesia, this exotic composition gives all players melodies within the layered texture. Endorsed by Robert...

The first piece in Ken's Master Transcriptions for Young Band's series, this classic work is perfect for any festival or concert. This effective arrangement of four Renaissance dance tunes is an outst...

This introspective work for young band explores new directions in band scoring, and will introduce young players to the pleasures of playing lyrical melodies.

This piece was written with the intent to feature an accomplished soloist with a school band. The appealing trumpet solo, in three contrasting movements, fits very nicely with the melodically importan...

This classy ragtime work was inspired by the Redlands area of the Colorado National Monument. This is the strong first band work by a composer of music for films and commercials.

This simple, effective work can be a great introduction for young players to ragtime and syncopation. The stop-time 'B' section features the players speaking words about the nature of ragtime music. T...

A solidly-arranged fantasy on the immortal 'Chop Sticks', sure to delight young players and audiences alike!'

Low register clarinet section feature.

A beautiful, heartfelt arrangement of melodies from the Chanukah season. Perfect arrangement to include on a winter holiday concert.

A cheerful, well-scored piece that gives an inexperienced flute section a chance to shine!

Enjoyable arrangement of a little-known ragtime classic, complete with toe-tapping syncopated melodies and trombone rips galore.

Three-movement work beautifully arranged from songs and hymns by early American composer William Billings.

Based on the spiritual 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot', this clever arrangement gives young alto sax sections a chance to show off!

This piece makes contrapuntal texture and imitative writing accessible for very young bands.

Suite of 5 pieces from the Medieval period presenting a colorful tapestry of music from this era.

Superb work for this level! Great vehicle for working on sustained style.