Spartiti per banda

Leroy Anderson was the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied music and foreign languages at the famous Harvard University before starting a brilliant musical career. He was a great church organ player...

Beguine

This work was previously published under the title 'De Bovenwindse Eilanden' (The Windward Islands)by Molenaar and at that time it remained relatively unknown. This is very undeserved, especially when...

Barry Manilow, whose real name is Barry Alan Pinkus (Brooklyn, 1946), studied at the famous New-York Julliard Conservatory of Music and became arranger for the well-known Ed Sullivan Television Show....

A solo for alto saxophone or flugelhorn. Recommended for beginners. A good percussion performance will create a certain tension. The solo part does not require a developed technique, but rather a good...

This world famous Latin-american evergreen is now available in an arrangement for symphonic windband and fanfare orchestra. The warm blooded, Latin-american drive has been preserved excellently.

An alto saxophone solo with wind band accompagniment written by the Dutch expert in exotic music Laguestra (Willy Langestraat). The soloist needs a good technique (degree of difficulty D). The chorus...

Questa frizzante Bossa-Nova ci ricorda il famoso carnevale di Rio de Janeiro.

Letteralmente "Gli uccelli del Brasile", questo titolo si riferisce al popolo brasiliano. Nella prima parte Passaros coloridos (Uccelli colorati) un'ocarina o un panflute imitano un uccello amazzone....

This is based on the famous tango 'El Choclo' by Angel Villoldo. The tango is the national dance of Argentina, but Terry has turned it into a samba, which is the national dance of Brazil, thereby runn...

It's Carnival Time for the Clarinets! Let your whole clarinet section enjoy this rhythmic Samba. The accompaniment does not need to be too heavy so maybe some of the band could play extra Latin Americ...

Peter Kleine Schaars most skilfully uses the wind band to give a nice demonstration of the wrapped salsa rhythm. The theme is strolling right through the various instrument groups, whereas the woodwin...

Antonio Carlos Jobim (1925-1994), undoubtedly one of the greater Brazilian composers, is especially known as a songwriter. He combined modern classical touches with a suave swing rendering individual...

Luis Pasquet (1917) is an Uruguayan composer who was very active both in the world of jazz and the world of tango. After many peregrinations he returned to his home country in 1970 and founded a chamb...

The American composer Uri Hodorov studied at the famous 'Julliard School of Music' in New-York. Between 1980 and 1988 he conducted the conservatory of music and the wind band of Eilat in Israel and fr...

By means of its simplified rhythms 'Mas Que Nada' allows the starting musician to play some typical Brazilian music. Both performances by Black Eyed Peas and by Sergio Mendes have recently made this t...

Uno spettacolare Pasodoble da concerto, scritto dal compositore e direttore d'orchestra portoghese Nuno Osorio. Battiti di mani caratteristici, castinette, assoli di tromba tradizionali, melodie ampie...

Artis Calambria was commissioned and premiered in August 2011 by the Band of Vale de Cambra (Portugal), conducted by Gil Magalhães, on the occasion of its centennial. The work took as its starting poi...

'Sway' is the English version of 'Quién será?', a 1953 mambo song by Mexican composer and bandleader Pablo Beltrán Ruiz. The most famous version is that of Dean Martin recorded in 1954. English lyrics...