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This work is subtitled as 'Patrol of the United Kingdom.' The patrol is a popular musical devise that depicts the approach of a body of people, soldiers, or a band, climaxing in the manner of an appro...

This intermediate band work shares its title with a painting by Frederic Edwin Church of surpassing magnificence and brilliance. Church lived around the time of the Civil War and became known particul...

This new work was commissioned by and is dedicated to the band at Charles M. Rice Middle School, Plano, Texas, Jason Tucker, conductor. The tartar (or plaid) of the composer's clan 'McBeth' is feature...

Part of the New Sousa Band Editions, celebrating the compositions and performance practices of this American composer and his legendary band. This piece was originally commissioned by Judge Kenesaw Mo...

This clever piece by Jim Mahaffey draws inspiration from two famous pieces of music: 'Air and Variations' (nicknamed 'The Harmonious Blacksmith') by George Frederick Handel and 'The Immovable Do' by P...

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...

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...

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...

A three movement suite that gives woodwind choirs the opportunity to perform the music of one of the Master Composers.

This hauntingly beautiful melody by J.S. Bach has been arranged for flute choir by James Christensen. This is a perfect selection for an intermediate group of flute players to take to contest or showc...

Johann Ernst Galliard (1687-1749), like Handel, came under the incluence of the Italian style. Arranger Harry Gee has taken two movements from Galliard's SIX SONATAS FOR BASSOON OR VIOLONCELLO which s...

A collection for six flutes or flute choir of three original madrigals. Each is based on a different song from three distinct ethnic musical styles: a 17th Century German part-song, A Japanese folk-so...

This short, moderate tempo march is arranged for 2 piccolos, 7 flutes, alto flute in G (Bb Clarinet alt.), and optional Glockenspiel.

Following the success of the composer's Concertpiece No. 1, requested by clarinet virtuosi Heinrich and Carl Baermann, the father-son duo asked for this second piece. Published posthumously, it is com...

Following the success of the composer's Concertpiece No. 1, requested by clarinet virtuosi Heinrich and Carl Baermann, the father-son duo asked for this second piece. Published posthumously, it is com...

Shed a Sweet Light, arranged by Cleo Goldberg, celebrates songs from the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah: a time of light, dancing the Horah, eating Latkes (potato pancakes), playing Dreidel (spinning...

Composed in the summer of 1984, Yorkshire Ballad was premiered at the Kansas Bandmasters Association Convention by Claude T. Smith and the Kansan Intercollegiate Band. Since its publication, it has be...

Everett Gates studied at Eastman School of Music at the Univesity of Rochester. His composition teachers included Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger. I. Summer Caprice, II Autumn Pastel, III. Chorale...

Composed in the summer of 1984, Yorkshire Ballad was premiered at the Kansas Bandmasters Association Convention by Claude T. Smith and the Kansan Intercollegiate Band. Since its publication, it has be...