Mittelschwere Noten von Grand Mesa Music

Perhaps the most famous example of Brazilian Choro music, this piece is made accessible to high school players in this sterling arrangement featuring a whistle and a section that uses strings as percu...

Two contrasting movements, the first brooding and pensive, and the second exuberant and dancing make for a perfect contest or concert selection.

(trans. 'I Love You So Much') This gentle and beautiful Danza from the Cuban master combines the rhythms of Latin American popular music with the harmonies of European Romanticism.

Sophisticated and gentle, these three pieces are excellent examples of early romantic chamber music. Since they were originally written for brass quintet (by German composer Ludwig Maurer), these piec...

Contemporary harmonies and rhythms are featured in this modern-sounding rondo. The musical journey this epic string works takes is a fascinating one as the various themes of the rondo alternate and mu...

This three movement work is a musical portrait of the Happy Jack Ranch, located to the west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. A wide variety of styles are used by the composer as he reflects on ranch life in days...

The excitement and energy of the Old West is captured by this fresh, Coplandesque string orchestra work. Listeners will hear hints of rowdiness at the saloon, a gunfight on Main St., and cowboys peace...

Your string students can finally now experience performing Debussy's masterpiece Clair de Lune. This arrangement is still filled with all of Debussy's impressionistic beauty with only the pianistic ar...

Marked 'Heavy Speed Metal', this piece will make your string orchestra feel like the hippest group around! San Francisco Bay Area string instructor Allen has here created an intense cello and bass dri...

The title 'Ironwork' alludes both to the genre of heavy metal music and to the art of blacksmithing, an ancient craft associated with the medieval accoutrements of heavy metal bands. The driving uniso...

Baile De La Noche (Dance of the Night) is a lilting Latin piece that evokes images of an evening of dancing and merriment. Care has been taken by the composer to make sure all sections of the orchestr...

Winds of Arabia will evoke images of the exotic Arabian desert. The mode, meter and pizzicato passages help provide the Middle Eastern sound that drives this camel caravan through the desert. The sync...

Catchy, upbeat overture spiced with 'blue' notes and driven by compelling percussion ostinatos.

Exciting new work by one of America's most revered band composers.

A truly unique musical statement capturing the timeless beauty of a classic sunset.

If the winds that blew across the prairies from centuries ago to the present times could tell us what they had seen and heard, what would they say? This work musically portrays some of the visions and...

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...

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...